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3. Good luck, Good Guys....

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2026, 01:55 PM

Apr 20

....but it's not going to happen.

Making lightweight jokes about Trump and cajoling him into behaving like a real American president, will only normalize him. And that's what will probably happen.

Success would be having him storm out of the room in an adolescent rage.

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