• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    All the sources for anything in the oval are people trump pays

    Especially when it’s about phone calls a handful of people were in the room for, if it leaks it’s intentional.

    Which could mean they’re testing the waters of cutting ties, or just to distance himself in the public eye but nothing changes.

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        That’s not true at all …

        What the actual fuck about today do you think is normal for the entire existence of America?

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          The use of leaks to the press to gauge reaction to a hypothetical policy or announcement? The subject of this comment chain?

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            Yes…

            None of those are happening normally.

            If a bus slams into the bus stop at 90mph, you don’t just step onto it. Even if it arrived at the right time.

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              No idea what that’s supposed to be an analogy of.

              Are you actually claiming that Trump is the first to practice kite-flying? Because that’s a bold claim.

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          They’re right though. “Floating a trial balloon” and “Testing the waters” wouldn’t be idioms if they weren’t a common behaviour.