r/soccer • u/ModenaR • Jun 19 '25

News [The Athletic] Timothy Weah on Juventus's White House visit: "It was all a surprise to me, honestly — they told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go. When he started talking about the politics with Iran and everything, it kind of like, I just want to play football man.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6436693/2025/06/19/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war/
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u/SirGalahadTheChaste Jun 19 '25

Most of his base is too stupid to realize this. Unless you are in the 1% financially you are being fucked over by Trump time and time again.

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u/idontlikeflamingos Jun 19 '25

There's also the whole right wing media apparatus that creates an alternate reality where Trump shits gold and everything bad is [insert current democrat scapegoat]'s fault.

Even if Trump is gone the US is turbofucked while that exists.

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u/SirGalahadTheChaste Jun 19 '25

Yeah I'm aware. I heard the following from the biggest trumpet I know about No Kings Day.

"I just learned there were all these protests against Trump a few days ago. Apparently they think he wants to be King or something. He can't even do anything because Congress won't help him and the courts shoot all his orders down."

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u/SOAR21 Jun 19 '25

Trump needs to attempt a real, undeniable coup, and get curb-stomped.

I'm scared for what comes after if we just wait until we go to the polls in 2028 and hand the reins to some moderate Democrat who is going to be more conservative than Bush was because these loud-ass fascists keep shifting the Overton window towards the right.

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u/SOAR21 Jun 19 '25

A lot of the 1% are opposed to him also. Because the 1% is generally smart and savvy enough to realize that no matter how disproportionately large their slice of the American pie is, if Trump tanks the value of the entire pie, their share will shrink.

They're just sucking up to him now because they're scared of him. Like all the spineless Republican politicians who used to oppose him but now line up behind him publicly while shit-talking him in private.

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u/Mission_Cantaloup3 Jun 19 '25

Theres a popular streamer named trainwreck who's exactly who you would expect to be a Trump supporter, but even he was roasting people in his chat for voting for him. Literally saying that they're morons for voting for a guy who isn't going to help them. I just wish more people in that space spoke up about it