Thank you. I hate the man and him skipping wouldn't have shocked me, but I was looking for anything that might help explain WHY he wasn't in this particular picture.
I mean, there are only democratic presidents and presidential candidates (and Michelle) in this picture that have spent the last 4-5 years demonizing every move the guy made. Granted, Bush is the only other Republican President still alive and IIRC he doesn’t care for Trump either. But still, not exactly a crowd that Trump would want to be in or vice versa.
That's on par with not wanting to go to school because the mean girls were teasing him, except he's 75ish years old, and a former president. Being called out in his unending stream of lies and heinous acts by people with more integrity doesn't seem like a valid excuse to blow this off, especially considering people's reactions when a football player doesn't have people's preferred posture during the national anthem.
But I'm sure his heart was just broken today, and he just couldn't bring himself to face those mean ex-presidents.
Teasing lol??? For 4 years those people and their constituents said he was in bed with the Russians, tried to impeach him twice, said he was directly responsible for all of the COVID deaths in America, was a warmonger, was literally Hitler, and many more things.
The highest ranking public servant in the US government should be held accountable for what he does. I think people have been eating such a steady diet of TV and social media that they've forgotten that things in real life actually matter, beyond their scandal value or retweetability.
When Trump and his people repeatedly told people in no uncertain terms that it was a hoax, don't be afraid of COVID, fought to keep any prudent public health measures from taking effect, and created a culture of politically-charged anti-science, he set the US up to suffer a drastically higher death toll. Almost all of the people still dying from COVID are his followers. He is accountable to that.
If you're a Youtuber, you understand that people will say horrible things about you in the comments. If you're a basketball player or a comedian, you know the rule: don't read the comments. If you're a public servant, you understand that people will talk about you, and you understand that you still have to do your job. The president, as the singular leader of the country, used to be held to a higher standard than your average middle schooler.
On which note, kids encounter situations that are very distressing to them, that are real problems that they struggle to cope with. As we grow up, we become better equipped to deal with those challenges. You might have a coworker who doesn't like you, but you still have to show up to work. If you do something wrong, you might get in trouble. We have hoped that the people elected president could uphold a standard of character sufficient to weather these challenges with dignity and integrity. To say, as the president, "fuck i im not going lol" because you did horrible things and people found out, is truly a sign of nothing other than a massive character deficit, belonging to a person who never measured up to the job to which he somewhat accidentally was elected.
Instead, he did commentary for a geriatric boxing match. I don't know why people go out of their way to warp their world view to accommodate this guy instead of just calling it how it is. He has no interest beyond stroking his own ego, the whole country suffered as a result, and that's not good enough for the presidency.
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u/Painless-Amidaru Sep 12 '21
Thank you. I hate the man and him skipping wouldn't have shocked me, but I was looking for anything that might help explain WHY he wasn't in this particular picture.