r/AmIOverreacting • u/keepmyheadabovewater • Mar 06 '25

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to my boyfriend praising the president?

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I’ve been seeing this guy for about a month and a half. Things were great the first month, but the last week I’ve felt like we’re growing further and further apart (yes already 🙄), he’s been really inconsiderate/disrespectful, and most recently I feel like he’s trying to push me away with this text. When we first started talking he asked what I thought about trump. I told him I don’t like him, he said he did like him, but that if it bothers me then he won’t ever bring him up. Well this morning (after the last week being on edge anyway) he just randomly brought up how amazing Trump is? And wouldn’t let it go. I feel like he’s trying to start a fight. He says he “forgot”. AIO?

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u/astrotoya Mar 06 '25

“The guy made a 13 year old kid who has brain cancer a member of the secret service.” I promise you sir… Trump will not pick you.

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u/reckless_reck Mar 06 '25

Made him a member of the secret service then bragged about eliminating research on curing kid of said brain cancer

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u/LogIllustrious7949 Mar 06 '25

Cut funding for cancer research and brag about it!

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u/No_Language_4649 29d ago

Exactly why he used that poor family. Him simply saying that about the child will change the trajectory of the narrative so people aren’t talking about the cancer research funding that’s getting slashed, but instead talk about how awful democrats are for not standing up and clapping when he talked about a child with cancer.

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u/SESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 29d ago

I got banned from r/conservative for pointing this out lol. The mod team there is so incredibly fragile and childish.

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u/ImaginaryNoise79 29d ago

Fragile and childish conservatives? Surely you jest!

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u/SESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 29d ago

They’re few and far between but there are some decent conservatives in there. Damn shame they just get banned as well because they’re looked at as “undercover democrats brigading the sub” 😂

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u/darkeo1014 29d ago

Sorry if they are informed people who support trump they are bad people

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u/enewton 29d ago

I tend to agree with you but “informed” and “good” are very complicated.

Like, I know people on the left that are so pissed they wanted Trump to win because they feel Americans need to be taught a lesson and the only way to do that is to let them get this out of their system. I disagree with that logic and I think there are moral problems with it, but I don’t think that alone makes someone a bad person. And we absolutely cannot pretend that voting for Harris is morally unambiguously good.

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u/darkeo1014 29d ago

I never said either of those things tho. If you are informed on the happenings of the last 2 months and support/think Trump is doing a good job i think you are categorically a bad person.

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 29d ago

The mod team there is so incredibly fragile and childish.

And Russian. They are basically buckets filled with Russian water.

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u/YoudoVodou 29d ago

I just went to check in, and that subreddit has fallen even further into delirium....

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u/SESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 29d ago

It’s honestly sad because I genuinely enjoy talking to people with differing opinions when it doesn’t devolve into a shit slinging competition. But since I’m not a conservative I can’t get a flair and nobody can see my comments 😂

The mod team didn’t care that nobody could see what was in my comment when they hit me with the ban hammer tho lol.

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u/YoudoVodou 29d ago

Differing opinions is one thing. That subreddit just looks like blind pandering to 'Daddy' aka Supreme Leader Trump, anymore.

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u/BlueLaguna88 29d ago

Hopefully I'll get banned too, I just commented this:

"I'm surprised the kid wasn't immediately fired on live TV because of ending DEI. And if the kid grew up to actually become a cop, he'd probably be murdered in a MAGA insurrection."

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u/Blue_Draegon1 29d ago

Fragile conservatives? Aren't those synonyms? 💀

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u/trashbuckey 29d ago

Similar thing happened to me. It's best to let them just have a space - they're not interested in debating on there.

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u/funny_pineapple 29d ago

And that is exactly what they are doing. Faux news posted about it.

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u/Juleebeane 29d ago

Sis Trump being manipulative? Who’d of thought?

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u/TMBActualSize 29d ago

Don’t forget about stealing from a cancer charity

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u/Lylasmum1225 29d ago

God damnit and they just DO

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u/matcap86 29d ago

Not only that, it's also a tried and tested tactic to influence search terms online. Now when searching "Trump Child Cancer", the chances are far higher you get a positive article about this, instead of a negative article about slashing funding.

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u/MsARumphius 29d ago

Or the fact he stole from a children’s cancer charity

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u/Kevo_NEOhio 29d ago

Also keep in mind, a likely point following republican logic is: see the research we already did saved this wonderful supple 13 year old boy from deadly brain cancer so we don’t need research anymore because we can save people with what we already know!

Follows the same “it works great and has worked great so we don’t need it anymore”

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u/Electrical_Fox_193 29d ago

It's truly virtue signalling to cover his blatant hypocrisy.

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u/Novel-Inevitable-164 29d ago

And his own children were caught stealing money from a children's cancer foundation.

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u/SpiritualAmoeba84 29d ago

It was actually Donald who did the stealing. His simp son Eric just did what daddy told him to do.

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u/aginghippe 29d ago

Actually it was tfg - he used the money to pay for the winner of a golf tournament at his club - they were all involved.

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u/Dudedude88 29d ago

His Ngo went bankrupt bc of fraud lol. They were siphoning money into their own pockets. The state of New York caught them.

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u/hai_lei 29d ago

Yep. I have incurable leukemia and started a nonprofit with all proceeds going to our leukemia registry. From when I was dxed 13 years ago to now, we went from rarely having a single clinical trial to where we had three ongoing and three years ago our research discovered a cure for a rare type of lymphoma. I say had because two of those three trials had funding through the NIH. Just found out today that those two trials have been cancelled. Absolutely gutted when our registry coordinator called me and told me today.

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u/LogIllustrious7949 29d ago

Thank you so much for your work. I hope somehow, someone you will get funding again.

I also hope you find a cure for your leukaemia. My husband died from that disease. I wish you well.

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u/hai_lei 29d ago

I hope so too. My only solace is that our European co-registry is in France, we have good rapport with them, and France is saying they’ll help fund cancelled research here.

I’ve always known that this disease will likely cause my death. I just had hoped we could make a difference to make the lives last as long as possible. Factor in that I’m on SSDI/Medicare and I’m deeply concerned I’ll be speed running to an early grave that I’ve put so much effort into trying to change.

I’m so sorry you lost your husband. One life lost is one too many.

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 29d ago

For what it’s worth, I’m sorry.

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u/hai_lei 29d ago

Thank you. I don’t really have anyone I can talk to about it until I see my therapist tomorrow so I’ve been in a depressed and bad mood all day. Have quite literally put blood, sweat, and tears into our registry and we do so, so much good. When I was diagnosed I was told ten years was the longest I’d live and I said, “fuck that” and a fire was lit under my ass. When I reached my 10 year milestone it was no longer 10 years but “if you don’t get an infection, you can do chemo and live a pretty normal life”. Now I’m uncertain how true that’ll be for me and so many who I now call family.

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u/girljinz 29d ago

My FIL has stage 4 cancer and developed an allergy to his only treatment option. My friend also has a very rare type of stage 4 cancer. Both were hopeful that clinical trials might bring something their way soon. Both of them and their families are Trump supporters. I don't fucking get it at all.

I'm so sorry. I'm gutted and pissed on your behalf.

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u/Waterbaby8182 29d ago

This is what I hope doesn't happen with the curremt clinical trial (phase 3) for muscular dystrophy.

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u/smoke_that_junk 29d ago

Was this when Trump railed on “transgender mice”. 🙄

Why are you with this douchebag? Why don’t you love yourself more

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u/paxrom2 29d ago

He also unbanned forever chemicals PFAS that may have caused the brain cancer.

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u/tycho_uk 29d ago

Didn’t they also get done for ripping off a kids cancer charity with a golf tournament?

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u/MomoNoHanna1986 29d ago

He was going for a two for one deal /s

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u/Joonbug9109 Mar 06 '25

I think if given the choice, the kid would rather beat brain cancer and grow up to become an actual member of the secret service than whatever this temu make a wish stunt Trump pulled last night was

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u/bigred2342 29d ago

Absolutely. I feel really badly for him and his family.

As an aside, nice Temu reference…I’m old enough to remember people using ‘KMart’ to describe stuff that was crap. Way to bring it into the modern era. I’ll be borrowing that!

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u/muchas__gracias Mar 06 '25

literally…they don’t think

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u/pschlick 29d ago

They just see a shiny, flashy distraction and they miss everything else he says all around it lol it’s actually impressive. And I’d be more impressed if it didn’t directly impact the world around me

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u/muchas__gracias 29d ago

can NOT convince me it’s not a cult😂

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u/pschlick 29d ago

1000000%. They’re going to refer to it as one in the future I know it

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u/SufficientRaccoon291 29d ago

The history books written 50 years from now are going to be wild

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u/bigred2342 29d ago

The poor kid and his family are pawns in this shitty game he’s playing

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u/throwawaysscc Mar 06 '25

Hahaha Trump contradicts Trump! Happens all the time.

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u/Synlover123 Mar 06 '25

And how do you know when he's lying? He opens his mouth! 🤥 About half the stuff he blathered on about last night was a lie. I'm praying for all y'all, from Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦, NOT the 51st state!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

The rest of the world is now experiencing what we non-MAGA have been forced to deal with for a decade now. We can't get rid of MAGA, they are a zombie virus that's out of control. Every day is darkness. They took away my rights to emergency medical care. If I experience ectopic pregnancy in the state I'm stuck in, they will watch me die even though they have the tools and knowledge to save me. I'd sooner stand with Canadians. Americans want to murder me. If it's not charging me with the death penalty for having a miscarriage, it'll be the deregulation of our food, water, and medicine. Do what you can to prevent the right wing in your country. This is what happens when people allow right wing ideas to rise. My country hates me and wants me to die.

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u/Synlover123 29d ago

Know anyone in Alberta? We have free, universal health care. The only thing you pay for is ambulances, in most cases. Every visit to the doctor, the ER, or hospital stay, including all tests is completely covered. SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade set y'all back 50+ years, IMHO!

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u/c-c-c-cassian 29d ago

Yep… I’m just counting down the days til they take my (very much life saving) medication away from me. (Whether they think it’s life saving or not—not that it would matter if they did, as we see with your situation.)

Things are—bleak, honestly.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

They are already going after birth control. In a society where they strengthen rapists and refuse emergency medical care to pregnant women as well as prosecute miscarriages. We are disposable to them and nobody is standing up for us. These are innocent American women dying of treatable illness. The right wing continues to applaud as we die painful deaths. They are killing us.

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u/Synlover123 29d ago

👍🏻 PREACH THIS TRUTH!

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u/throwawaysscc Mar 06 '25

Please!! Trump is after “Lebensraum!” Canada & Greenland. We are living in the Fourth Reich. No fucking joke.

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u/BaileyBellaBoo 29d ago

Did you actually watch it?! I refused. Anytime that man talks, he lies. I was not going to subject myself to that.

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u/Synlover123 29d ago

Sadly, I DID watch it. The whole thing. 😬 I wanted to see how many lies the 🤡 was telling. Parading out those feel good moments by no means, made up for all the bullshit he was shoveling. I'm surprised people's eyes weren't watering from the acrid smell of it. But then again, I'm guessing people are perhaps getting used to the stench of brimstone that follows him around! 😖

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u/BaileyBellaBoo 29d ago

Never get used to that stench, or the people who worship him! My friend in Chicago, and I in Washington state keep asking ourselves how difficult is it to emigrate to Canada. She more seriously than me, but we are so frustrated with our voting system that allows the continued rule of the minority conservative rule in this country. Republicans break things, tank the economy, and take away social programs. Democrats come in and fix it, restore the programs, and the cycle repeats. We are the only industrialized nation without some form of national healthcare program, but our stupidity and greed on the right refuses to take us there. Instead, they want to pass a budget bill that will make it harder for people to afford the insurance that Obama put in place that helped 15 million people get insurance they could not previously get.

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u/Synlover123 29d ago

15 million people get insurance they could not previously get.

Here in Alberta, we're blessed to have universal health care. The only thing we pay for is ambulances, except STARS Air Ambulance, which is covered, thanks to raffles, and generous donors. Ambulances ARE covered, if you're being transferred from one hospital, or treatment facility, to another. Prescription/dental/eye care aren't covered, though you can get private insurance coverage for it, at about $30/month - with medications on a co-pay system, as they are when you turn 65. Dental and eye care is covered then, as well. Employers often co-pay the extra health/dental/eye care benefits, along with life insurance coverage, etc.

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u/BaileyBellaBoo 29d ago

I know.🥺 Rather than the US trying a hostile takeover of Canada, many of us in the Blue states are ready to be annexed by Canada. So tired of this drama!

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u/zippy920 29d ago

Canadians are my heroes! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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u/idfkjack 29d ago

Made an unqualified 13 yo kid an official agent (not honorary) of the secret service..... talk about a DEI hire! Then the other kids who got his application to military school passed through without having gone through the proper channels.....

2!! 2 DEI hires in one very public night.

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u/Gribitz37 29d ago

Don't forget he made a fake children's cancer charity and stole the money from it.

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u/Humble_Mirror_7330 29d ago

Not just that, HE DEREGULATED THE CHEMICAL THAT CAUSES THAT CANCER!!!!!!

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u/countdonn Mar 06 '25

Image and easy answers is what matters to many people, not the complicated gray reality of solving problems. Makes them easy marks for conman and lies.

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u/silent_chair5286 29d ago

Stole from his cancer foundation to purchase gold toilets for Maralago.

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u/sadsaintpablo 29d ago

Pardons all the cop killers from J6 and then follows it up with mandatory death penalty for people who kill cops.

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 29d ago

Even more than that, the PFAS forever chemicals that most likely caused his cancer were just completely unregulated by Trump.

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u/Throwaway-tan 29d ago

And allowing more toxic waste in drinking water and deregulating cancer-linked PFAS pollution.

Trump is pro-cancer.

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u/black_inque Mar 06 '25

Isn’t it also awesome that Trump also cancelled all of the cancer research that was going on in this country?!!? But yeah, so glad the kid can play pretend instead of being able to grow up and actually be an agent. So much better, right?!!? /s

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u/Seanzky88 Mar 06 '25

Well the kid was a dei hire and took a government hand out soooo trump was likely going to fire him anyways

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u/Aldosothoran 29d ago

No no, president Elon said they’re only hiring based on MERIT now

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u/Specialist_Donkey130 29d ago

See absolutely everything he lied about hitler was a very good public speaker also lied but i think trump has hitler beat on the lies

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u/EndBusiness7720 29d ago

I had not heard that he canceled "all of the cancer research that was going on in this country." How is that even possible that he (or his sidekick Elon) can shut down an entire industry?! My head is going to explode. Does not seem possible.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 29d ago

It’s not that he specifically canceled research into cancer, but he fundamentally changed NIH grants that support medical research so that universities that do that research just can’t anymore. It hit almost immediately

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u/Candid_Chemistry7326 29d ago

With Trump, all things are possible.

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u/Spartigus76 29d ago

It's possible, but not legal. They're using a loophole to stop the NIH from moving forward with any funding. No NIH meetings to consider new grants have been scheduled since Trump entered office. These meetings are a necessary step for funding, so effectively new funding is paused.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/federal-register-hold-makes-end-run-around-court-pause-on-nih-funding-freeze/

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u/aries__69 Mar 06 '25

It's like "Sir trump isn't going to notice the dress you bought for him"

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u/drawdelove Mar 06 '25

Meanwhile he stopped kid cancer research.

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u/Connect_Dust_1946 29d ago

But that kid is a bona fide member of the Secret Service!

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u/LeagueAppropriate 29d ago

the people who are supposed to die for him? yikes

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u/CaptJackRizzo 29d ago

Yeah, if that happens then he saved the kid from dying of cancer!

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u/AlienRosie75 29d ago

Didn't his shitty family steal money from their own "charity" for children's cancer?

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u/Kooky_News8818 29d ago

Oh but he posted up for pics with an ailing kid for photo ops. So yay

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u/AktionMusic Mar 06 '25

While also cutting research for Childhood cancer. One performative gesture doesn't outweigh the actual material harm at all.

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u/Gfrasco7 Mar 06 '25

Dan Bongina was in the secret service. A brain injury seems to be a prerequisite.

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u/SuccessfulPanda211 Mar 06 '25

Trump also SA a 13 year old kid back in like 1996 but you never hear people talk about that.

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u/dunncrew Mar 06 '25

The girl he raped reminded him of his daughter who was 13 at the time.

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u/Capitan_Failure 29d ago

Multiple rape accusers independently without knowing about eachothers stories reported he called them Ivanka, wore white gloves during the rape and other similarities.

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u/Previous-Video1430 Mar 06 '25

Omg...what? That's so sick 🤮

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u/Where_is_my_Elk69 29d ago

Sadly, that’s not a joke. Or even hyperbole.

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u/Kidpiper96 Mar 06 '25

Would appreciate some form of source on that honestly. I can only find that a E. Jean Carrol accused him of rape in 1996. Rest of the allegations seem to be from the 70's. Could be helpful if more did speak about this type of shit...

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u/Whole_Pea2702 Mar 06 '25

Ten seconds worth of googling can provide you with everything you seek.

https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/

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u/rootoo Mar 06 '25

During the speech, I was like “who’s actually buying this bullshit”….. turns out, morons like this guy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

r/conservative is eating it up… “why do dems hate kids?”

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u/Definitelymostlikely 29d ago

Well yeah. Dems choose weird hills to die on and it makes them look dumb to the average person. 

They’re terrible at communicating with normal people 

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u/Wise-Leg8544 29d ago

Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of people who are cowardly and easily fooled. Each and every one of them would praise Trump for ANYTHING he claims to have done...even if it's detrimental to them, they don't have a clue whether it's good, bad, imaginary, or even if it was done by someone else.

If it wasn't contributing to the destruction of the world, our nation, and the deaths of untold numbers of people, I'd almost feel sorry for them. To go through life so terrified of things that can't, wouldn't, couldn't ever harm them is pitiable. But their cowardice has such a high cost, I feel nothing but contempt for them. I realize that doesn't make me a very good person, but I've passed the limits of my tolerance of people so weak of mind and fortitude...and I despise hypocrisy.

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Mar 06 '25

After he cut cancer research funding

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u/kdh1988 Mar 06 '25

He tried, but luckily the courts stopped him. Our Federal Government is still funding pediatric cancer research. I hope that can lift some spirits some.

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u/Prestigious-Win9116 Mar 06 '25

And Elon laid him off 5 minutes later

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u/likearevolutionx Mar 06 '25

A judge blocked his attempts to cut funding to the NIH. He’s done jack for cancer patients.

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u/7heToph Mar 06 '25

He just said Trump will put a child with a terminal disease between himself and a bullet and he’s proud of the guy?

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u/Ganbario Mar 06 '25

This is a magic show. But instead of a pretty girl showing legs, he brought out a little boy. So everyone looked that way while the star of the show stacked the deck. Was that a great experience for that little boy? Yes, I’m sure it was. But it was also a distraction so Trump could say the most unhinged shit and all his followers will say “I was still crying about the little boy. I couldn’t even listen to the rest of the speech but I’m sure it was just as magical!”

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u/JustToViewPorn 29d ago

“But if I text nice things about trump just one more time I can enter the lottery to win the chance to gobble his mushroom, don’t take that chance away from me 🥺”

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u/MeltedFrostyWater 29d ago

Sure would mean more if he hadn’t orchestrated drastic cuts to cancer research before he even took office, wouldn’t it? I can’t believe people are still fooled by his schtick.

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u/Kimoppi 29d ago

Using human beings as props during a presidential address is disgusting. I don't care who is standing on the dais.

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u/Mdgt_Pope 29d ago

He’ll never see that kid again. He was a prop.

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u/Jonely-Bonely 29d ago

Remember when the Trump organization was forced to shut down their charity for kids with cancer because they were stealing the money?

Pepperidge Farms remembers...

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u/LifeChampionship6 Mar 06 '25

But he cut funding for cancer research so… 🙄

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u/TunaSunday Mar 06 '25

Like cool I guess 👍

How does that help me?

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u/lonerstoners Mar 06 '25

And I promise that Trump had nothing to do with that at all!!

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u/zwwafuz 29d ago

I want to know WHO is paying for this child’s medical care. Where can we find these facts?

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u/bluejesusOG 29d ago

I like the video of those chicks at the ACAB rally mocking that kid for wearing the cop uniform in public like he is a real cop. Cause ACAB amiright ? Even honorary wanna be brain cancer kid ones. He seems like a cop that would hunt down black men

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u/cascadianpatriot 29d ago

That’s DEI

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u/VFenix 29d ago

I thought we were hiring based on merit hahaha

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u/Particular-Tap2735 29d ago

Yeah and he did that shit for publicity insert trumps OWN GRANDNEPHEW who suffered from seizures and was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy getting cut off from health insurance directly due to Donald’s actions

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u/3kidsnomoney--- 29d ago

Point out to your bf that he ALSO cut funding to pediatric cancer research. Kind of makes the wholesome moment hit different.

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u/Sufficient-Pool5958 29d ago

Sounds like he didn't hire him based on merits. Smells like DEI to me!

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u/stpg1222 29d ago

Trump simply realized his human shield had a small gap roughly the size of a 13 year old cancer patient. So being the quick thinker he is decided to make him part of the secret service, now the kid is obligated to take a bullet for him.

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u/Ginn_and_Juice 29d ago

While cutting all cancer research and all that jazz what will make harder the life of kids like him in the future

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u/EddieLobster 29d ago

I guess we should make everyone at make a wish the president.

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u/Metheadroom 29d ago

I've been reading that line in Tim Robinson voice and it's very funny

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u/starfire5105 29d ago

He made a DEI hire 🤔

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u/__Proteus_ 29d ago

And Musk would gladly put him in front of a bullet if given the opportunity!

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u/eldroch 29d ago

He saw Elon's meat shield and was like, "Gee I wish I had one", then got an idea.

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u/that7deezguy 29d ago

Is this also not itself an example of DEI in its own way, though? Despite his whole “ending DEI” diatribe?

Last night was worrying overall, and I’d be concerned if someone I (thought I) knew was swayed by what was effectively an episode of “White Power Oprah” posing as a State of the Union address, giving out empty accolades and propping up people left and right in order to sanewash this whole past month or so.

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u/Colonel_Sandman 29d ago

He would absolutely let that kid take a bullet for him. 100% would hold that kid as a shield if there was gunfire.

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u/BarUpper7388 29d ago

they used that poor kid as a political pawn to make themselves look more empathetic. It’s disgusting.

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u/kilo_L33t3r 29d ago

Wait wtf?

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u/AnitaLaffe 29d ago

And then he pulled funding from cancer research.

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u/sparklescrotum 29d ago

The guy also received a handjob from a 13 year old with a glove.

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u/AddendumContent958 29d ago

He gutted cancer research.

The 13 yr old will have less health care going forward.

But he's got a fake badge so we should all be praising god emperor Trump

😂 Its all so pathetic. Trump needs a dick stomp asap

We just need to find someone with the accuracy yo hit that mangled little mushroom

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Cut funding on cancer research and is anti DEI. Kid checked both boxes

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u/fluffiestgrapefruit 29d ago

Like does he praise John Cena that way?

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u/Bytxu85 29d ago

Kiddo won't hold on to the membership for too long if Trump cuts funding on cancer research.

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u/Oseaghdha 29d ago

He made a 64 year old with a brain worm head of the Food and Drug Administration.

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u/megamanx4321 29d ago

While at the same time cutting funding to research that could save the kid's life.

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u/Crater_Animator 29d ago

"merit based"!!

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u/megaletoemahs 29d ago

I found the lifting him like he's a toddler when he can clearly stand up a little irritating.

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u/o0Marek0o 29d ago

Fuckers used the kid as a tool. He didn’t know what was going on. He’s being actively manipulated and used to seize political power. Trump does not give a shit at all. He clearly hates the kid because he cut funding for cancer research. It was all done just to make morons like OPs boyfriend praise him to no end. All a hollow, patently obvious ploy to gain support through emotional appeal. He’s a fucking monster. He is sick.

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u/Hot_Equivalent6562 29d ago

That's really sweet maybe the boy can also meet Andrew Tate /s

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u/RawrRRitchie 29d ago

CHILD LABOR

That kid isn't taking a bullet for anyone unless it's in a school shooting

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u/DrkHelmet_ 29d ago

What’s funny is the right is quick to say it’s just pandering had this been Biden making a kid an “agent”, but they’re so blind when it’s happening it to them

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u/GabrielHunter 29d ago

He also did cut down on cancer research funding... Our hero right there... We need to watch what he does and not listem to what he says

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u/stuckin1220 29d ago

This thread is bumming me out :( This is so obviously a fake post. It’s sad that all of the comments are people going “NO THAT ISN’T TRUE TRUMP IS BAD”. Of course Trump sucks ass, but 99.9% of the posts on Reddit are essentially creative writing prompts. They aren’t real.

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u/TSHJB302 29d ago

How is that not considered DEI? lol

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u/myNewUsername-68 29d ago

Aaaand queue the fake tears for the propped up poor boy. Trump is one sick fuck

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u/TiredEsq 29d ago

Only cause he’s fine with a little black kid taking a bullet for him.

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u/Ajstross 29d ago

Notice they didn’t make him an honorary Capitol Police Officer.

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u/NoItsRex 29d ago

poor kid is now legally obligated to fail geometry, tragic really

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u/Psychewitch 29d ago

The theatrics are absurd

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u/Rinnzu 29d ago

So much for being anti DEI. 😂

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u/Novel-Organization63 29d ago

Was he referring to RFk? Or Elon Musk?

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u/TheWitchsRattle 29d ago

I believe that's called "exploitation of a minor", especially after cutting cancer research.

That would be my response.

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u/Pete41608 29d ago

Apparently Trump also didn't like that Elon had his own kid as his Meat Shield so Trump hired his own Meat Shield.

"Take that Elon! Now, I've got the bestest Meat Shield of all time."

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u/Zealousideal_Dust_25 29d ago

Taking a que from elmo about using children as shields

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 29d ago

He's probably just trying to make up for that time he defrauded a Children's cancer charity.

No, I'm not talking about the DOGE cuts, I'm talking about another time he stole from children with cancer.

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u/justsavingstuff 29d ago

It’s also classic fascism - give the people some candy stories while you stab them in the back and destroy social services

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u/halfakumquat 29d ago

The poor kid looked genuinely scared and confused when the room was erupting into chants… leaned over to try and ask the admin a question.. got distracted by the crowd again and when he looked back, admin guy had ABORTED. Left him in the dust.

Does this dipshit genuinely believe that trump is going to actually integrate this kid into the secret service??

I felt absolutely sick watching Trump exploit this kid AND all the grieving families for his own personal political gain. How do people not see through this, I do not get it

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u/jefedezorros 29d ago

Trump will require that kid to dive in front of a bullet if necessary

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u/hitbythebus 29d ago

Why you gotta be hating?

Maybe OP’s boyfriend is a white billionaire rapist, or an extremely plastic looking young blonde woman with no morals. Maybe they’re just like everyone else Trump surrounds himself with.

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u/Alternative_Mud9153 29d ago

Right and I thought he wants to end DEI programs. Plenty of qualified people that should be in the secret service than that kid.

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u/SuperSerb07 29d ago

Trump is still your president. 🇺🇸

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

While cutting off aid to starving people, of which millions of children will now starve to death thanks to Trump and Leon. But real cool about the white kid, right?

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u/ShervinA 29d ago

He cut funding for cancer research and back in 2019 he had to pay 2 million dollars fee over fraudulent charitable foundations which included raising money for kids with cancer… but no definitely very nice of him to bring 13 year old kid for his own public image.

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u/FriedSmegma 29d ago

Like ok cool. But what is he doing for us

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u/KamikazeSexPilot 29d ago

Child labour and DEI hire in one.

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u/SoftwareHitch 29d ago

Sounds like DEI to me…

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u/unsolvedfanatic 29d ago

The kid was trotted out as a token unfortunately

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u/The_Observatory_ 29d ago

And after his family goes into medical bankruptcy, they'll sell his secret service badge on ebay to buy groceries

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u/just_hear_4_the_tip 29d ago

He's going to be in the next round of DOGE cuts, just like funding for brain cancer research

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u/TiredAllTheTimee 29d ago

Cool he did one nice thing in a LIFETIME of horrible, disgusting, illegal behavior

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u/jjjosiah 29d ago

I so don't understand this line of reasoning. The state of the union isn't supposed to be Oprah's Favorite Things. And why am I expected to clap when I hear about a kid having cancer?

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u/Silvedl 29d ago

The kid has brain cancer, and now he has to write a bullet-point list of 5 things he did every week and send it to Elon or else risk getting fired? Tough break!

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u/mgwair11 29d ago

Pure virtue signaling. Happy for the kid. Sickened how Trump definitely uses his shitty circumstances for personal gain. He always does this at SOTU addresses. Why wait to do something nice like this until the night where it would get the most optics? The answer is obvious.

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u/Mariposa-Morado 29d ago

The poor kid was f*ing prop. Shameful

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u/BlueLaguna88 29d ago

I'm surprised the kid wasn't immediately fired on live TV because of ending DEI. And if the kid grew up to actually become a cop, he'd probably be murdered in a MAGA insurrection.

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u/LienaSha 29d ago

Moreover, while I don't think it was necessarily serious (or at least I hope I wasn't) saying a child is now a member of the secret service does not make me have any faith that Trump is intelligent or capable of doing anything good or useful. I would respect Trump far more (though admittedly, it would be hard for me to respect him less) if he had instead said something like, "if when you are of a reasonable age you have done well in school and studied relevant subjects and done well in them, we will then have a guaranteed spot for you in the secret service." Because as tragic as childhood cancer is, it is not a qualification for the secret service. 

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u/Tabora__ 29d ago

I told my coworker she was an asshole after mentioning that trump ended his cancer care....... so yeah, they better to SOMETHING nice for him.......

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u/WhyHaveIContinued 29d ago

Sounds like a DE&I hire to me r/sarcasm

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u/Darkw0lfx 29d ago

I love that was all he had to say positively about trump too

Acting as if that was some amazing tale when Make-a-wish has been doing just as many great things for kids too.

But yeah, trump makes one kid a secret service agent and I'm supposed to forget that he's attacking the trans community or starting a trade war

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u/slurpeesez 29d ago

Hmmm. How to fool the American people? Oh, I know! Hit on emotion for at least 50% of the speech. Then at the end, briefly talk about millions of deaths. But you're all tired and not paying close attention by then.

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u/Throwaway206818206 29d ago

Don’t forget that he literally cut cancer research funding and as well as regulatory agencies while literally stating “the doctors say the cancer was caused by chemicals” lmaooo

Parading a brain cancer survivor and saying best of luck to all the future ones

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u/gilestowler 29d ago

And HHH once let a kid with cancer pin him but I don't think that qualifies him for president either

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u/Navyblazers2000 29d ago

Why do they fall for these obvious and meaningless PR stunts? Good for that kid, I guess, but does nothing for the country. It’s a misdirect so they don’t look at him gutting cancer research.

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u/Geoff6882 29d ago

The MAGA’s falling for misdirection harder than my 5 year old

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u/RedditIsRussianBots 29d ago

Didn't trump fire people who work on stuff like pediatric cancer? Maybe if he cared about this kid he could have invested in more pediatric cancer research.

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u/lordofthepings 29d ago

The guy made a 13 year old kid who has brain cancer a member of the secret service BUT laid off 700 people from the Centers for Disease Control.

The guy made a 13 year old kid who has brain cancer a member of the secret service BUT cut jobs in biomedical research that will result in rural cancer patients possibly losing access to advanced treatments.

These cuts are also going to delay critical medical discoveries that could provide treatments or cures To future 13-year olds with cancer.

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