Current Events > Did people think the world was laughing at us when we had Obama?

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As president. Because with Trump there was protests when he came to England along with a Trump baby balloon
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Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness
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Rebel_Patriot posted...

Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness

Old account, low karma, saying stupid things.

Surely this is a trustworthy account.
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Rebel_Patriot posted...

Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness

Can't say bad things about Obama here bro. You'll get swarmed.

Poor Trumpettes
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I mean, the usual suspects mocked Obama (like in Russia they kept making monkey comparisons and racist remarks about him) but I don't think he experienced any widespread protests within our allied nations.
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Rebel_Patriot posted...

Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness

Because nothing says "strength" like daily Twitter rants

Yes there are people who do. These same people are the ones who think Donnie is an alpha male and things like this....

Look, having nuclear my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart you know, if youre a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say Im one of the smartest people anywhere in the world its true! but when youre a conservative Republican they try oh, do they do a number thats why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because were a little disadvantaged but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me it would have been so easy, and its not as important as these lives are nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of whats going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? but when you look at whats going on with the four prisoners now it used to be three, now its four but when it was three and even now, I would have said its all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they dont, they havent figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, its gonna take them about another 150 years but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

Make him look like an intelligent, rational person who can speak well.
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dunno if his politics were what america needed at the time, but he was a charismatic, well-spoken dude that was definitely fit to lead a country

the world laughed with obama

the world laughs at trump
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The world loves the US when the president when is groveling and apologizing on behalf of all America which is exactly the PR stunt Obama pulled in 2009. The world ate that up, got him a lot of love, but not necessarily respect.
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LastTomorrow posted...

As president. Because with Trump there was protests when he came to England along with a Trump baby balloon

The Trump protests are likely nothing more than a radical, fringe group.
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Kolibri X posted...

The world loves the US when the president when is groveling and apologizing on behalf of all America which is exactly the PR stunt Obama pulled in 2009

What did he do exactly?

And I would hardly say that anything Trump has done has earned him any amount of respect *anywhere* beyond his group of blindly devoted followers.
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Rebel_Patriot posted...

Probably. Obama gave off an essence of weakness

Nah. George Bush was perceived as a blithering moron over here, and his plan of action that consisted of hunting nonexistent nukes drew my nation into the destabilisation of Iraq. We're still over there thanks to Bush's WMD hunt.

And none of us took Trump seriously, because we perceived him as slow. Not the same kind of stupid as George Bush - monotone, one-note, lacking in substance and unable to compose a single calm, thought-out sentence. All the things that people know him for are repeating his bullshit pie-in-the-sky Wall rhetoric, complimenting himself and attacking anyone who criticises him. He's the king of deflection, because it's always someone else's fault and he's always in the right - his primary skill is agitating the public. Trump has always lacked integrity in the public eye, at least in my neck of the woods. His intended pardoning of a war criminal only further serves to illustrate this.

Barack Obama was a lot more well-spoken than both, from the first day of his campaign. From day one to the end of his presidency, he made an effort to be civil, respectable and well-presented, and even with his downsides, he represented the best of America with his presidential attributes. In hindsight, there are a lot of shitty things that happened overseas and in America during his presidency. But he was almost always a reasonable voice in global politics, and he gave America an air of dignity on the global stage.

Trump gives America an air of weakness, having such a feeble-minded agitator at the helm of the world's greatest superpower and holding the government funding of said superpower hostage untill he gets billions of dollars for a poorly thought-out wall. George Bush was a laughingstock, but I can't say I don't respect the guy for keeping shit together during 9/11. Regardless, there are global repercussions of his leadership that have persisted to this day, and a lot of it is tied to how he went into Iraq in search of non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction. Barack was a voice of reason and a strong image of America's strengths, at least where I come from.
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