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Lord Ludd

(585 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 04:58 PM Nov 2020

Disgraced

For all his lies & failures of omission & commission (too many to recount; not the purpose of this post), George W. Bush handled the transition to the Obama administration in the same smooth, time-honored manner as his father (who had been defeated) & all his predecessors (as far as I'm aware). To be sure, W. presided over a failed presidency (and how!), but he doesn't deserve to be called a disgraced former president.

Trump, by acting exactly in defeat as most (all?) DUers & others predicted -- & we're still in the early stages, oy -- has earned himself the adjective forever applied to so many politicians who resigned for criminal or ethical breaches: Disgraced.

If Anthony Weiner, e.g., will always be known as "disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner," Donald Trump should suffer the same fate.

Will it happen? Not in the current boiling cauldron, but farther along, I believe history will regard 45 as "disgraced."

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Disgraced (Original Post) Lord Ludd Nov 2020 OP
I think "disgraced" will be the mildest adjective history applies to President Turd. lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #1
Diabolical Blue Owl Nov 2020 #3
Disastrous, destructive, deranged... lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #7
Disgraced faliure ironflange Nov 2020 #2
Loathsome. Loathsome loser. WheelWalker Nov 2020 #4
"Have you heard about the loathsome loser, beaten by the mass of votes every time?" lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #8
Well played WheelWalker Nov 2020 #10
K&R...This was W.'s message to the country after the 2008 election BeyondGeography Nov 2020 #5
History will present the truth. Butterflylady Nov 2020 #6
You don't know it, But the American Association Of Sh** Admirers" begs to Differ... Stuart G Nov 2020 #11
Oath breaker nt Shermann Nov 2020 #9
Traitor T Ruth Phairy Nov 2020 #12

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
1. I think "disgraced" will be the mildest adjective history applies to President Turd.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:00 PM
Nov 2020

"Discarded"
"Disgusting"
"Diseased"
"Dystopian"

would be a few others.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
8. "Have you heard about the loathsome loser, beaten by the mass of votes every time?"
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:14 PM
Nov 2020

-apologies to the Little River Band.

BeyondGeography

(39,284 posts)
5. K&R...This was W.'s message to the country after the 2008 election
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:09 PM
Nov 2020

I couldn’t stand the guy either, but both he and his father were models of civility when their WH time was up:

Butterflylady

(3,523 posts)
6. History will present the truth.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:11 PM
Nov 2020

And his legacy will be s**t. His relatives will have to live with the shame. It would be prudent of them to change their name.

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
11. You don't know it, But the American Association Of Sh** Admirers" begs to Differ...
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:23 PM
Nov 2020

...In no way shape or form, do we want our product... to be associated with Donald Trump...

While many associate Trump with our favorite...it really isn't fair to "s**t. And the reason is that
s**t has a use, and Donald Trump has no use at all.

S**t has been used to fertilize ground for many years, and it has other uses too. And further, S**t is not new, and has been around for ages. Let us not degrade this useful commodity...and if you have
gotten this far, I will commend you because most readers give up after the first sentence. I often try
to be funny and the great majority of the time those efforts fall flat....

Thank You for reading this because our Association needs all the support it can get,
given that S**t is still S**t no matter how you define it and it still stinks as it always have..
..........................................................oh well.............................................

at least I tried............... ................. ........................... .......................

 

T Ruth Phairy

(25 posts)
12. Traitor
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 06:04 PM
Nov 2020

....beyond 'disgraced.'

If Trump makes it into history books as anything but 'a traitor,' who ended up in jail, we will have lost the narrative.
No figure in American history has been more despicable.

If Joe McCarthy, Father Coughlin, and Roy Cohn are pariahs, then Trump must take his place w. them, since he swiped all their tricks.

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