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Smackdown2019

(1,186 posts)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:23 AM Dec 2019

WE?

Who are the "WE"?

Last night Trump said: "It doesn't really feel like we're being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before, we did nothing wrong, and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we've never had before."

Trump was the only person impeached by Congress last night.

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Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
4. Yeah, I read a comment somewhere
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:31 AM
Dec 2019

that one of the Republican defenses of Trump is that he never uses the collective or "royal we," so that "us" could only mean the US of A.

Oopsie.

Wounded Bear

(58,649 posts)
3. The old royal "We." Well that and...
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:26 AM
Dec 2019

he wants his followers to identify with him to the point that they feel that they are the ones being impeached and thus, rejected.

Very cult-like, dontcha think?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,686 posts)
5. It's the royal "we." Pluralis majestatis.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:31 AM
Dec 2019

The use of a plural pronoun to refer to a monarch, as in “We are not amused.” Fat Nixon thinks of himself monarchically.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
7. No all magats are under attack. Trump is the only thing that stands between them and crazed liberals
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:39 AM
Dec 2019
Trump tweet from Weds



Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
8. The Cretin conman must have an adoring audience of sycophants to survive...
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 10:40 AM
Dec 2019

Manipulative control of the STUPID.
Alone he is nothing.
Assigning blame, creating fear and rejecting any accountability or responsible is the only way he can live with the fact that he has no redeeming character.

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