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Former President Donald Trump has denounced Vice President Kamala Harris' nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate as "not fair," escalating his rhetoric as new polls show Harris gaining substantial ground in key battleground states.

In a fiery statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump accused the Democratic Party of staging "the first ever 'Coup' in America."

His outburst comes in the wake of President Joe Biden's unexpected withdrawal from the 2024 race, which paved the way for Harris to become the Democratic nominee.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

How people perceive this guy as strong is a real head scratcher. He's basically a five year old.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Only the biggest pissbabies cry ‘not fair!’

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps he’d like some cheese with his whine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This guy is like a decrepit zoolander.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Let me get this straight: Trump thinks that the Democratic Party selecting their presumptive nominee a month before the convention is "election interference" and "the first ever coup in America"? Fucking how?

He thinks that he has to campaign against both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the same time now? What makes him think he needs to campaign against Joe?

He thinks this is "not fair" that Kamala is now the nominee, but he also thinks "she should be easier than [?] to beat than Crooked Joe"? Who exactly does he think this is unfair for? Kamala?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Unexpected withdrawal? We'd all been calling for it for months. Trump litterally can't fathom bowing out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's nice to see him this scared.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

BREAKING NEWS: COMPLAINING BAG OF LIES COMPLAINS AND LIES, MORE AT 11.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Trump accused the Democratic Party of staging “the first ever ‘Coup’ in America.”

LOL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

There's also the Wilmington insurrection , if you like reading about coups in the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898,[6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898.[7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a race riot caused by black people. In later study from the 20th century onward, the event has been characterized as a violent overthrow of a duly elected government by a group of white supremacists.[8][9]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Adding "the first ever" is really telling on yourself there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Well he tried but he failed, so...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He then shared particular frustration with the sudden change in his opponent, suggesting that the Democrats had orchestrated Biden's withdrawal to improve their chances.

Gosh, I don't think anyone else has figured that out! This guy is hella smart.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

"It's no fair the other guy knows how to play the game better than me"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

If someone had said two months ago that the Democrats would orchestrate something to improve their chances, I wouldn't have believed it

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Dementia DonOLD the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies is the biggest snowflake.

It's unfair that this piece of shit wasn't hanged for treason, or rotting in a jail cell for getting people killed from his insurrection, or for being a fucking rapist.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

His COVID response killed millions of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hundreds of thousands. It reached one million shortly after Biden took office.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm counting the excess deaths and attributing them to COVID.

By the time Biden took office, Trump's damage was done: the virus was a hoax, the vaccine was a hoax, and no precautions needed to be taken because the virus would just disappear on its own. That's all Trump's handy work.

Trump's response is still killing people. I know at least three people who used to be normal individuals and then they fell in with Trump, got super weird and cringe, and decided COVID was a hoax, and then they died of COVID.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sorry to hear about that.

Trump's whole plan was to fix the pandemic with a vaccine. His idiot followers are anti-vaccine, though, and not even Trump could convince them otherwise.

I do blame Trump for ignoring Fauci, discouraging mask-wearing, calling the virus a hoax at the beginning, and discouraging lockdowns. Oh, and holding rallies as usual, despite the risks.

Operation Warp Speed was one of the few things he got right, but we lost a lot of people in the process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thanks. They were already lost to me just by supporting Trump's racist and other anti American rhetoric.

I thought any decent president should have been vaccinated on live television and plastered all over their social media. Trump did it in secret and wouldn't even admit it to his rabid followers. Maybe more of them would still be alive if he had.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you even call it a response?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure you can - the response was "let it spread, it hits blue states more than red states".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, that was wrong. It actually hit red states harder!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well that and COVID came into the country through blue states, California and New York especially. They looked at the initial data for how it was spreading and where, and concluded that that would stay the same. I guess, yeah, they're just idiots that misinterpreted the data.

You know, are there any red states with significant global cities, major hubs for international commerce and people? Miami I guess. Maybe they would have gotten it first.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am just thankful for his felonies. Removes all legal right he has to military funeral honors. He will likely still get them, but as a deployed veteran it warms my heart knowing they won’t be “real”.

Draft dodgers should never even get a flag.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I agree 100%. I didn't know that a felony removed the legal right to military funeral honors. Thank you.

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