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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's rather sickening to watch a former president act like some king or royalty horseshit. [View all]
Last edited Sat Aug 26, 2023, 07:46 AM - Edit history (3)
He has more protection and benefits than the president, it seems.
The cameras follow his convoy of Secret Service everywhere he goes. They hold an umbrella over his head as soon as he steps from his chauffeured SUV. They do everything except throw their jackets on the ground for him to stand on.
We fought a friggin' revolution to get rid of this type of privileged thinking. Americans that cheer this crap on turn my stomach.
It is all horseshit.
(edited "acting" to "interim" for clarification)
(edited because we only have one president - (needs no other clarifier)
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It's rather sickening to watch a former president act like some king or royalty horseshit. [View all]
kentuck
Aug 2023
OP
It is a monumental circumstance and Trump will take every advantage of it he can.
twodogsbarking
Aug 2023
#12
Question: Do all former presidents get a mile-long motorcade with an ambulance?
dalton99a
Aug 2023
#14
Now that he is no longer president, his security detail should be much smaller. Why isn't it?
Lonestarblue
Aug 2023
#19
Ooh! My wife and I watch a lot of those excellent British detective shows on Britbox, and
PatrickforB
Aug 2023
#33
Total agree. I watched part of entourage from jailhouse to airplane and it seems clear
Vinca
Aug 2023
#46