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Trump Makes Weird Bid to Turn His Birthday Into a Holiday (www.thedailybeast.com)
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President Donald Trump has taken an extraordinary step in his efforts to turn his birthday into a national celebration, with the National Park Service revealing that on June 14, his birthday, admission to national parks will be free for U.S. citizens.

In addition, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth have been removed from the schedule of free park admission days, despite both being federally recognized holidays.

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[–] 153 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Instead it will be his death day that will be globally celebrated.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I will personally celebrate with the most expensive whiskey I can find on this day.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm trying to drink less but yeah I should go get a good bottle just to celebrate the deaths of bad people

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    My dad was, apparently, an alcoholic - and a pretty bad one - before I was born. I wasn't around for it, but two of my three older siblings have told me various stories about it. He himself even told me of the night he met my mother, including the detail that that night, he was so drunk that he barely remembered how to get home after dropping her off at hers.

    I don't know how long before I was born he stopped drinking, but I only ever saw him consume one alcoholic beverage in my lifetime. When he did, he said "I wouldn't mind one more!" but, to his credit, immediately stopped. I've inherited some of his proclivities, though I think not as severe, and am actively working against them. (I'm aware of the stopdrinking communities, this isn't a cry for help.)

    Point I'm trying to make is, if you're trying to drink less or to quit ... Be careful how you celebrate. He had some thirty years of sobriety to recover and was still tempted.

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

    His death is probably going to be the final spark for civil war

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

    Between what factions? Because the factions who would try to use a power vacuum to gain power is doing so right now and not a lot of his followers would actually be willing to follow through on "avenging" him or whatever.

    He's a focal point for assholes who use his example as an excuse to behave like monsters - there's no real coherent ideology for his followers to latch into with him gone to get anything done at all. You'll just see various random conspiracy theorists trying stupid shit and a couple of militias delusional enough to think they have broad support who then will be wiped out. They might inflict some damage, but it won't look like civil war, more like the occasional domestic terrorist.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    no coherent ideology

    Exactly, because it’s a cult of personality. Once he goes, so does the cult. Although I expect a power grab, and wonder if the d’s have been working on their own project 2025… given their previous behavior, I doubt it.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    The circumstances seem important, don't they? Like, it's different if he nods off and shits himself one last time, surrounded by everyone in the Cabinet Room vs. if something external visibly happens to him. I guess either way the wolves will try to spin it to light that spark they want.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    There's a better chance that MAGA will collapse into factional infighting.

    It's always been an uneasy alliance between Putin-aligned kleptocrats, fundamentalist morons, neo-Nazis, quacks, con artists and tech bros (yeah, I know, there's overlap), and all of those groups have competing interests.

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  • [+] -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    here we go again with Americans thinking they are the fucking bellybutton of the universe.. there are worse people on the planet than Donald Trump, his death won’t be celebrated “globally”

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    As a Swede, I'll definitely celebrate it

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Well, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like the man any more than you do. But I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people on the planet does not give a fuck, or might even know who the guy is.

    My critique is not of the intent of the message, just the fact that ppl from the US think that all that happens in the US must be on the world agenda, and is probably that most important thing in the universe right now..

    This self importance is tiring, and stretches from left to right in US politics.

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    • [+] 109 points 11 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 52 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    Also, gorsh, I wonder what Juneteenth and MLK Jr. day have in common that Republicans and only Republicans dislike so much?

    I find it simply hilarious that, even still, now that their mask has been completely removed, you still have conservatives and Republicans trying that age-old chestnut about how it is really the Democrats that are the racists, because Lincoln was a Republican, and because of the Dixiecrats. And trying to yadda yadda something about Robert Byrd, etc.

    All while they go apoplectic about "woke", DEI, CRT and "political correctness", etc...

    Of course, entirely ignoring everything that had happened in more recent times, like the Southern Strategy, and the Civil Rights movement, etc...there was some Republican idiot on the DP comment section that even kept rejecting the Southern Strategy as fake news for some contrived reason that only made sense in his head.

    It was always so goddamned pathetic, just like their attempt to tie socialism to Nazis merely because of the label, even if it's easy to point out the fact that the Nazis targeted unions, Communists and socialists.

    But the fact that they are still trying this nonsense is beyond pathetic.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    And yet we still have "centrists" who somehow can't tell the difference.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I'm sure you'd find thousands of comments along those lines on r/conservative right now. I wonder how long until they actually try to "take back" the word fascist. Because you're right. In many ways the mask is all the way off.

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    • [–] 43 points 11 months ago

    Classic abuser move. Take away two free days and then give us back one and makes sure we know it's from him cuz he put his name all over it.

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    [–] 86 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    His deathday will be a global holiday.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    We should purge his name from every building and record.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not a fan of that wiping out history stuff. Just make it synonymous with being a shitcunt.

    like, Hitler is known. if Hitler weren't known, it's not like we wouldn't have fartsmears like Nick Fuentes around. they'd still be here.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I’m not sure. They don’t show streakers at sporting events and withhold the names of mass murderers to discourage them from seeking glory.

    Like the phrase “you can’t make an anti-war movie” everything that carves assholes’ names in stone encourages future assholes.

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    • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    his birthday isn't and won't be, but the day he dies will be celebrated for generations

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of, “A man in Moscow goes up to a newsstand and buys a newspaper… He then glances at the front page, then turns aside and tosses the whole newspaper straight into the trash. Next day, he turns up, and does the same thing. Buys it, glances at the front page, throws it in the trash. Next day, same thing. The newsstand worker is increasingly puzzled, but doesn't say anything. But eventually, after a couple of weeks of this, he can't take it. "I'm sorry, friend, but I must ask: why do you buy the paper every day and then just look at the front page and throw it out?" "Oh, I'm just checking for something." "OK, but: what are you checking for?" "I'm checking for a particular obituary." "But sir, you don't even open the newspaper! The obituaries aren't even on the front page!" "Oh, believe me, the one I'm waiting for will be."

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    • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    There will be one trump anniversary I'll celebrate, and it hasn't happened yet.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    I was just discussing the event the other day, and said when it happens I will buy a flag pole, an American flag, and raise it to full staff. It will be up as long as the half staff order is active, then I will take it down and sell it or trash it. There will be zero ambiguity in my actions.

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    • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Anyone still in doubt about Donald Trump being a narcissist?

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    • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Everyone should stock up on crowbars so that the moment this fetid sack of shit is no longer in office they can go fall-of-the-Berlin-wall and forcefully remove his name from everything it has been stuck on.

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    [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck a child day? Rape someone day? Steal from children's charity Day?

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    • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Dear Leader Day. With bigly parades and mandatory attendance.

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    [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    This reminds me that many history-related Wikipedia articles like this one don't have an English version yet. Might be a nice project in anticipation of Trump's b-day.

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251206043620/https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-makes-weird-bid-to-turn-his-birthday-into-a-holiday/

    Why has it taken seven hours for someone to post this?

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Can we just fast forward to the part where we find out where they buried him so I can go relieve myself there?

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    • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Gross. Fuck off fascist. No one wants to celebrate the day your mom shat you out.

    We'll celebrate the day you last draw breath though! Gonna get me some nice booze. None of that cheap stuff.

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    [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Tell you what, let’s meet in the middle and make your death day a holiday. So come on now, hurry up so we can celebrate it in 2026.

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    [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    How can you tell if someone is a racist narcissist...

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    His birthday is flag day. No need to make it Trump Day

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I can see his obituary date being celebrated, if he is forcibly turned into manure for the tree.

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    [+] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Maybe he dimly realizes it too, and that's why he's obsessively building monuments, giving himself fake awards, and other imbecilic pursuits of "legacy."

    Possibly also why the mask is off with respect to being a Russian-controlled quisling.

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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Weirdos do weird things.

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Never ask when the zone is fully flooded. Trump will tell you by not performing some batshit insane dumbfuckery. Until then, assume he still wants you distracted from the fact that he fucks kids.

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I'll celebrate the day by burning the American flag and posting online about how much I hate Trump, because I still have the freedom to do both of those things no matter what this sack of shit wants.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    🤡

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    That doesn't make it a holiday... Nothing is closing, no one gets time off work. You can't just use words when they don't fit.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Send him a bag of feces.

    Not for this date, just do it.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    We already celebrate Hitler birthday though.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    For him, this is not at all weird. It fits perfectly with his narcissistic personality.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    We should turn his birthday into National Greed Day. A day to recognize how money has corrupted government!

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    TIL entry into US national parks isn't free even for US citizens. Most countries pay for that stuff with taxes. Classic US though

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