• Nougat
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    2444 months ago

    “Your running mate, J.D. Vance, has said that you would veto [an abortion ban] if it did come to your desk,” said ABC News anchor Linsey Davis, referring to Vance’s statement last month that Trump “explicitly” told him that he would veto a federal abortion ban.

    “Well I didn’t discuss it with J.D., in all fairness. And I don’t mind if he has a certain view, but I don’t think he was speaking for me,” Trump said on the debate stage, before stumbling through the rest of his words. “We don’t have to discuss it.”

    When JD Vance says that Trump “‘explicitly’ told him that he [Trump] would veto a federal abortion ban”, I believe JD Vance. Whatever was happening in the room at the time, Trump thought that that statement would be most beneficial to him personally in that moment. When Trump said the opposite thing in the debate, it’s because he thought that would be most beneficial to him personally in that moment.

    The only thing that matters to Trump is what he thinks is best for him personally right now. Ethics are irrelevant. Legality is irrelevant. Continuity is irrelevant. Reality is irrelevant. He does not remember the past and he cannot conceive of the future. “Me, now” is the only thing that matters to him. There is no big picture. His entire universe is a singularity of “me, now.”

    • Coelacanth
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      774 months ago

      The only thing that matters to Trump is what he thinks is best for him personally right now. Ethics are irrelevant. Legality is irrelevant. Continuity is irrelevant. Reality is irrelevant. He does not remember the past and he cannot conceive of the future. “Me, now” is the only thing that matters to him. There is no big picture. His entire universe is a singularity of “me, now.”

      Best summary of Trump I’ve read yet.

    • @Beardwin
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      434 months ago

      This is how he has always operated. People tend to forget.

    • @[email protected]
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      194 months ago

      I believe Trump when he said that he never discussed that with Vance.

      It was actually John Barron!

      That’s right, baby! The Barron is back and more senile than ever and he’s speaking exclusively to J.D. Vance.

      ^Good God, I fucking hate that this joke could be real^

      • @cheese_greater
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        124 months ago

        They’re different people and totally don’t have two 2 other family members’ names, including his alter ego, Donnie “Johnny” Trump

        • @[email protected]
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          154 months ago

          “So, Mr. Barron-”

          “No, I’ve told you so many times, Baron is my son.”

          “Wait, are you saying that you’re actually Donald Trump?”

          “No, no, of course not. I’m John Miller. Definitely not Trump. Never even met Trump.”

          “Okaaaayyyy… Mr. Miller-”

          “You don’t have to be so formal. Please, just call me President Trump.”

          • @cheese_greater
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            44 months ago

            This reminds me of the Competitive Endurance Tickling episode of The Dollop, the guy financing all of it had several online personas they mocked because it was so transparently all the one guy who clearly didn’t want to have it all traced back to him