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The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.

Donald Trump is reportedly getting more and more fed up with his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein drama that has consumed headlines for weeks.

Trump is frustrated that the scandal has overshadowed his agenda and dominated the news, two people familiar with his thinking told The Washington Post in a Sunday report.

Nearly a dozen sources close to the situation spoke to the Post about the issue, painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash—particularly from Trump’s own base. Many officials had reportedly hoped that Americans would move on from the unreleased Epstein files, underestimating the sustained outrage.

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think that in a lot of ways, it’s less about the Epstein files, and more about how deeply complicit in the elite culture that he claimed to be in opposition against.

Epstein is just an acceptable outlet among his base to air their uncertainty and unease they’re feeling. Because his ties with Epstein have been well publicized and well known about for a while, but from a right wing populist perspective, that was kind of written off and discredited because it didn’t fit the feeling, the “vibe”, that he was upsetting and visibly angering elites and thus he must be acting against their interests in some meaningful way, now though, it’s very clear he’s cosying up to the tech elite and taking huge obvious bribes from other elite groups and actually gutting social programs they use everyday, rather than that just being a threat made by the “woke” media they don’t trust.

So suddenly the Epstein being associated with him is believable to right wing populists because of how visibly elite aligned he’s being from their perspective.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

You love to see it. The rage will continue until morale improves.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When is this piece of shit going to get what's coming to him, where is the justice in the world, how can you live your whole life like a complete asshole and be rewarded for it? This has to be a fucking simulation because all my life I've been basically told just be a good, kind person and everything will work out and then people like this fucking asshole come along and just fuck everything up for everyone with his unquenchable greed and lust. Aliens if you're listening just fucking nuke the planet we've had a good run.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES!!!

WHY DO I HAVE TO WORK AT BEHAVING PROFESSIONALLY IN PROFESSIONAL SITUATIONS BUT THIS FUCK GETS TO BE PRESIDENT, A JOB THAT SHOULD REQUIRE A HIGH DEGREE OF PROFESSIONALISM!!!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Can we skip to the part where his crimes are exposed again and then either ignored or finally result in consequences

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

O come, holy aneurysm!

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Toss all of the in the same prison, but Krasnov is first.

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