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MIButterfly

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Mon Feb 16, 2026, 09:13 AM Feb 16

I keep hearing that history will not to be kind to DJT. [View all]

I'm not so sure. Look how they whitewashed Ronald Reagan into Saint Ronnie, the best president we've had in decades. The truth is he was ineffectual at best and horrible at worst. Among other things, which I'm pretty sure led to where we are now, he was in the midst of Alzheimer's which they did their best to hide from us, while others actually ran the country (which they did poorly in my opinion). They propped him up and told him what to say and luckily for them, he was able to get through it unlike DJT, who can't even read a teleprompter without sounding like a babbling idiot.

Look at how they whitewashed Gerald Ford. When he died, they heaped all kinds of praise on him, saying he "put country above party" when in reality, he let Nixon get away with all his crimes in exchange for becoming president. He pardoned Nixon before he had even been charged with any kind of crime! Not exactly putting country above party. More like self-service in my book.

Look at how they try to "sanewash" DJT now. Years from now, people will remember how bad he was, but a century from now? When nobody is left who actually lived through this shit, I'm afraid the history books will not tell the truth. They always seem to make people sound better than they actually were.

On the other hand, I could be wrong..........

I hope I'm wrong. I hope he's reviled like Hitler and Mussolini and all the others.

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