Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.

“We’re going to make a couple of tweaks,” Trump said of his “one big beautiful bill” during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. “I mean, we don’t want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”

“We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let’s say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let’s say Gavin ‘Newscum,’ who’s done a horrible job in California.”

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    He’s a literal traitor.

    Americans are just too stupid to see it in anything but hindsight.

    Assuming the fascists don’t win and rewrite history, he will be considered a traitor in the history books.

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      He is objectively the most prolific traitor in American history, and it isn’t even close. He’s literally worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. It’s not even a debate.

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    When I say “not my president”, it’s not me refusing to acknowledge Trump’s authority/ being a sovereign citizen. It’s me saying he is acting in a deliberately antagonist way. He sees us as the enemy. He isn’t leading, in fact he’s doing the opposite.

    Here’s what’s supposed to be normal: even if you don’t vote for someone in office, you are still their responsibility. JB Pritzker still has a responsibility to protect Republicans in Illinois. Greg Abbott still has the responsibility to protect democrats in Texas.

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    so trump is against America. you cant help only half a country and still call your self an American. not in my book. fook you trump.

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    He’s going by the books. Everyone should know his next move. Everyone keeps thinking someone else is going to do something about it.

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    Note that there’s no claim of it helping any people or benefitting constituents, even his own. In this world of narcissism, there’s only “what’s in it for me?” And “how to spite anyone who disagrees with me?”

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      balkanization of the united states plays right into putin’s best interests. how about we just stack conservative bodies until this country stops being so fucking stupid?

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    Blue states cut off those wankers

    They’ve been stupid and malicious for too damn long. Let them eat their own shit

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      All those red districts in blue states, get ready to get screwed. Trump ain’t helping you.

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        Yesterday I drove into my home town, where I grew up. It’s been hard to go there since MAGA erupted. In a usually-blue state, my home town (and the surrounding area) goes deep red. I wish I could say it was inexplicable, but I grew up around these people - their current authoritarian boot-licking matches up with everything I always knew about them.

        How wonderful this news could’ve been to hear on the TV 12 hours ago, when I was back in that town, sitting in a waiting room. There was only one other person in the room, a middle-aged white guy who kept loudly saying things in response to the news on the TV. I’m pretty sure he was just trying to chat with someone, but I know how easy it is to accidentally set some people off, and I’m not about to make small talk about the news with a stranger in that town.

        So I ignored him. He kept making unsolicited commentary. I kept reading my phone. Thankfully, someone eventually entered the room with a dog, and that gave the man a chance to start a conversation about the good boi, which the dog’s owner happily obliged. But now I wonder what he would have said if this story had been on the news at that time. It might have actually been entertaining.

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    and we should have seceded and stopped paying fed taxes a long time ago.

    at least im doing my part. I can cheat my ass off on my taxes and take payments under the table. they’ll be none the wiser. especially now that they’ve gut the IRS. If that hurts the blue state i live in, fine. like i said, we should have seceded already.

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    Let me sure I got this right. Your plan is to take states that don’t like you and teach them to be more independent of the federal government, is that correct?

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      Terrible idea. That would kill millions and also kill a ton of people that hate Trump. Plus, cut off that area of land for 100s of years. If using nukes weren’t a big deal, they would be used in common skirmishes.

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      I agree with but every state has blue voters too

      The red states don’t have enough blue voters but they do have plenty

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    I live in NC. We have a Dem governor, but the House and Senate are controlled by Republicans. The state has gone to Trump three times. What is his plan with that?

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    You want Boston to throw another tea party? They’re game.

    No taxation without representation motherfucker.

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    I don’t think he realizes this isn’t the gotcha he thinks. That means the poverty line between the states that already exists is going to get even worse, because they are taxing the lower income brackets even worse.