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Perfectly sane behavior. (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

His age is really showing, isn't it? He—once again—misspelled "gilded age" as "golden age"

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    What?

    "Golden Age" is a thing people say. The "Gilded Age" also was a period of American history, but President Tang wasn't making a reference to Mark Twain.

    Of all the things to criticize the idiot over...

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    What the Trump admin put the country into isn't a golden age, but instead something more akin to a repeat of the Gilded Age, with its rampant political corruption and extreme wealth disparity. The joke is that he meant to say "Gilded Age"—which is the more accurate comparison—but is so out of it that he instead said "Golden Age".

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Fair enough, I guess the "intentionality" threw me off.

    I wouldn't expect Trump to know about the Gilded Age (much less to align his administration with its corruption). My brain stopped at "that's like a 10th grade school mistake, while Trump is usually stumbling around grade 4."

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