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Government shutdown reveals Donald Trump’s biggest critic to be his own 2013 Twitter account (newsthump.com)

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Donald Trump’s 2013 Twitter account has launched a stinging attack on 2025 Donald Trump for allowing the government to shutdown.

Displaying remarkable prescience, 2013 Trump said that the failure to reach a deal on the US budget was always the fault of the President who is, in an incredible coincidence, himself.

Taking to Twitter, 2013 Trump rebuked the President, saying that such an epic failure was always the fault of the Commander-in-Chief, and he was making the country a “laughing stock” by not negotiating on the budget – insisting the guy at the top has to take the blame.

Past Trump followed this up with an interview with Fox & Friends saying that the guy at the top – in this case, himself – should definitely be fired. [...]

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[–] nobody158@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean this is the onion but its pretty accurate

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Satire doesn't always have to be fabrication or exaggeration. Sometimes, placing two parts of reality beside each other is enough to highlight hypocrisy and absurdity. The creatively embellished part is just that the past version isn't presently attacking the present one, just coming around like a boomerang he threw a decade ago and forgot about as quickly as he forgets about what he was saying.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like thats every Onion article for roughly the past nine months...

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it's been more like 9 years

[–] nobody158@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Painfully so