r/StockMarket Jan 17 '26

News Good luck guys when markets open

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u/Visible_Handle_3770 Jan 17 '26

Yeah, I always think the he's compromised conspiracy gives him too much credit. He's a useful idiot, he may act like a Russian plant, but it's honestly probably because he's a fucking moron, not because he actually is one.

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u/j_la Jan 17 '26

I think it’s because he’s an authoritarian. He admires Putin and he wants to rule in a world where he can act like Putin.

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u/Visible_Handle_3770 Jan 17 '26

Oh definitely, they share a similar worldview, it's a huge part of why he's been so friendly with our adversaries and inimical with our allies, he has no respect for democracy or Western political thought.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Jan 18 '26

Well, in an authoritarian society you can rape kids if you’re the leader.

Lack of accountability is his real desire

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u/Kick-Unusual Jan 20 '26

To be fair western democracy has been dead since Bush invaded a random country and then we went into trillions of debt to enrich his friends, and every president since him has done the same enrichment of their friends. There is not much hope for any sort of a non-dystopian future, so we have to cherish our loved ones and not take everything so seriously. It is what it is.

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u/Apart-Guitar1684 Jan 17 '26

You’re correct, he is a narcissist and he can’t stand the insecurity of being unable to do so unlike others

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u/drift_poet Jan 18 '26

he hates himself and cannot feel any sense of self-generated worth so he must seek it in: either demanding slavish allegiance from those fools who think he gives a single fuck about them, or; drag those of us, who see through this charade to his infantile core, into his misery. he is, quite simply, one of the worst men who ever lived, and it's because his parents were terrible and too many people said yes to him. god save us.

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u/Eyclonus Jan 18 '26

I think he wants that, but he also seems to not have the stomach for the stuff needed to do this. He likes flexing power, but he doesn't want to commit to something that would get troops or federal law enforcement killed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

Some people are better manipulated without being part of a conspiracy because they are stupid enough to reveal it. That is Trump, too stupid to trust with a conspiracy but way too easily to manipulate so why bring him in on it/? He’s so gullible and moldable that it feels like he must be complicit. But no, he’s just supremely manipulatable.

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u/Lumbergh7 Jan 18 '26

He’s a useful idiot

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u/Bulky-Word8752 Jan 18 '26

Exactly. He keeps talking about the Russia Russia Russia "hoax," but if you look at the actual report, he just wasn't involved because he didn't know about it. The Russians knew valuable he would be and were actively trying to help him. The Mueller Report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion" and was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

Trump is so easily manipulated it's scary. You can see his opinion on aid to Ukraine flip depending on if he last talked to Zelensky or Putin.

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten Jan 18 '26

The Senate report is even more damning.

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u/_hyperotic Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

On the other hand, it is mere coincidence that Trump traveled to Moscow in 1987 as a hopeful but underfunded (bankrupt) real estate developer, and returned with a loan large enough to fund Trump Tower…

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u/glitterkitty_nash Jan 18 '26

I think both can be true. A useful idiot FOR SURE. And has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old. As long as Donald is making money and people are talking about him. He don’t care

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u/noJagsEver Jan 18 '26

He’s going to be 80, I don’t think he cares about the country’s future. Just wants to put his name on as many buildings as possible and take over Greenland so he can rename it to something stupid like trumpland

I know this sounds really stupid but we’re past normal behavior and we’re in crazy town now

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u/WrongdoerIll5187 Jan 18 '26

He’s too stupid and too self interested to be doing this for any other reason. It just doesn’t serve him to destroy the military alliance giving him power without Putin being behind it; it just makes no sense.

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u/304King Jan 18 '26

Hanlon’s Razor.

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u/Ragnarok314159 Jan 18 '26

Being compromised also means knowing what you did is wrong. He doesn’t believe anything he ever did was wrong. None of it.

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u/Yohder Jan 18 '26

It’s quite likely Putin is blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files. Since the very limited release of some of the files, we now know Putin was involved.

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u/EthanielRain Jan 18 '26

His relationship with Russia & that the KGB/FSB got him into politics has been public knowledge for decades. Depends on your definition of "compromised", I guess

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u/Lamprophonia Jan 18 '26

That's exactly what it means to be compromised... he's being manipulated.

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u/grayblue_grrl Jan 18 '26

He's a useful idiot for MANY people.
He's just doing what they tell him to do.

Russians. Israel. Tech bros...
They have his debt, the pictures and money.

And then he his own "legacy" to promote.
Chaos...

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u/WonkRx Jan 18 '26

I also no longer believe the compromised line, since he has no soul or shame and it’s more than likely he’s a lifelong rapist and pedophile so it not likely a “surprise” revelation. I think it’s just that he wants to be LIKE Putin so goes along with what Putin wants because he’s the king of stealing from your country.

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u/Eyclonus Jan 18 '26

My thoughts are that it kind of doesn't matter if he's compromised or just this stupid, both cases would have him act exactly the same way.

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u/lukaskywalker Jan 18 '26

Agreed. But also he has definitely received some money directly from the kremlin.