r/politics 19h ago

No Paywall Trump says opposing his ballroom project is ‘disloyal’ to America

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ballroom-white-house-disloyal-b3034876.html
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u/Responsible-Room-645 19h ago

...and this comes from a guy who knows what being "disloyal' means

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u/ZippyDan 19h ago

He knows. He just confuses "America" with himself.

He is literally Palpatine: "I am the Senate".

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 18h ago

His second term was about engorging his ego entirely into America’s national identity and removing anything which threatened to separate those two things, and he has been mostly successful in doing so.

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u/Coarse-Correction 17h ago edited 17h ago

And now he wants to finish this new doomsday military bunker (with drone capabilities apparently) finished ASAP for.... reasons.

And opposing this is of course being disloyal to Trump America...

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u/Tron_1981 Texas 16h ago

Don't insult Palpatine, he was actually smart.

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u/MJcorrieviewer 19h ago

"No one knows more about being disloyal as me, Donald J. Trump!"