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I’ve never seen a US President as mistreated as Donald Trump was and it’s weird that it seems to have become a cultural meme to denigrate the guy. Whenever I’m reading an article and they decide to randomly take a jabs at him with no context or criticism of a specific policy it really takes the wind out of the sails of my interest in the topic at hand and makes me wonder if I can even trust the author not to mislead me further.

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Take this terrible opinion to 4chan. Article is from 96. nothing to do with him being president, everything to do with him being a clown. The only (mis)treatment he's ever received is being treated too kindly.

well aren’t you quite the charmer

the media was pretty rough on bush jr too. the trump coverage was more sensational, but idk how much of that is the man himself and how much is just the current style of journalism.

They guy had a very big mouth, was a reality-TV star, and a life made of nothing but tabloid drama for the past 20 years.

I think you can attribute a LOT of the sensationalism to the man who basically swam the sensationalism ocean for most of his life.

Odd to fixate on the "mistreatment" of Trump in an article that also takes jabs at other wealthy people (perhaps even all wealthy people)

You realize we've had Presidents who were shot. Some fatally.

And the article does nothing but state a truth. Mainly because he is a well-known example of inherited wealth. And that he did not beat the average. How is that denigrating?

He spends way more words talking about Bill Gates than Donald Trump.

I was talking about the book reference.

So in 96 the author of the article didn't like his books? Is that your only gripe? I think Trump can take it...

Orange Man Bad Syndrome.

This article was written ~3 weeks after Donald Trump announced his 2016 candidacy. I'm not sure the critique is at all politically motivated.

In fact, as noted above, the article was originally written in the 90s, and this line about Trump was in the original version written long before even Apprentice days.

Trump has been a punchline since long before he decided to run for president.

Per dmux's comment, the article is actually from the 90s and the reference to Trump was there then, too. So absolutely not politically motivated, barely even sneering to be honest.

Yeah it must be the over saturation, everywhere I look it seems is something negative and hateful towards Trump. They have even started identifying people a “Trump supporters” as if it’s some kind of identity that lingers on rather than just someone who supported a previous candidate. It’s nauseating.

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