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▲ mangodrunk a day ago

Naming stuff after himself is certainly a good demonstration of his narcissistic tendencies and is tactless. I do think the criticism over this is fair but I don’t consider it that high on my list of priorities given it doesn’t materially affect anyone. We should probably have limits, and a good demonstration of that is the failure to rename the Kennedy Center.

I do agree that the ads should be criticized, but there is precedent for previous presidents having done something similar, not that it makes it above scrutiny but rather not so bad.

▲nickthegreek 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He also renames bodies of water, mountains and even AI then has a tantrum when people don’t use them. This ain’t troubling behavior?

▲mangodrunk 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, you are free to care about naming things when there are humanitarian crises throughout the world.

▲verdverm 18 hours ago | parent [-]

We can care about many things at the same time. We also care about the humanitarian crisis created by Elon Musk from dismantling USAID and RFK Jr. from running HHS based on medical misinformation.

▲mangodrunk 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I have enjoyed our many threads we have had. I appreciate you keeping this civil. Feel free to have the last word, I do enjoy the push back and your perspective.

▲verdverm 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

not just a tantrum, but calling those people enemies of America

▲verdverm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> I don’t consider it that high on my list of priorities

The problem many Americans have is that these are the top priorities of the president. Even the Iran war was more about him and his legacy, to "be the guy" who ended it, not understanding Iran's ability to inflict damage on allies and close the straight, because Trump removed many of the people who have been analyzing this for decades. Perhaps there were good reasons prior presidents have not decided to do this.

Then he turns around and does deals with Putin while blaming Zelensky for diesel prices... it's all so shameless, it should be shameful.

If you listen to oval office or state room events in full, you will hear him forget what he is talking about and go to his standard ballroom, arches, name on this or that. He's more focused on himself than anyone else.

▲mangodrunk 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Iran was going through a humanitarian crisis after the Iranian regime killed tens of thousands of civilians, not to mention the nearly 50 years of oppression and suffering that the IRGC has inflicted. The approach of appeasement was disastrous and gave the Iranian regime a lot of money.

So you want constant war in Ukraine? What did Obama do when Russia took Crimea? What did Biden do during the Russia-Ukraine war that improved the situation?

He’s a narcissist, but so are all of them but Trump is probably more tactless about it than most.

▲verdverm 18 hours ago | parent [-]

> Iran was going through a humanitarian crisis

That is not why Trump started his own forever war. In fact he told the Iranian "help is on the way" and then never showed.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/us-news/trump-tells-iranians-k...

He went to war for his legacy and miscalculated badly, because the people who understand the region and the IRGC were fired or pushed out. He was sending Witkoff and Kushner (real estate guys) to negotiate nuclear topics, alone, without experts in nuclear science or Iran / IRGC.

My expectation is they do to Trump what they did to Carter.