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Sure, Trump Tearing Down White House, But At Least Is Not Black Man With Feet On Resolute Desk
https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump-tearing-down-white-houseDoktor Zoom
It's about respecting America and We the People's House, and not being Barack Obama.
The People were outraged at the disrespect shown by the president for all boundaries of decency and for the norms of respect for the office he holds. Apparently unaware that the White House isn’t his personal mansion, the low-class slob displayed his utter contempt for the American people — he works for us, goddamn it — by desecrating the beloved People’s house. As one angry American put it in a letter to the New York Post, it was little surprise that the president was “comfortable disrespecting, desecrating and even violating the things Americans cherish.”
Okay, yeah, you already saw the headline, so you know we’re talking about the multiple times wingnuts had a cow over photos of Barack Obama sitting in the Oval Office with his dirty born-in-Kenya feet up on the Resolute desk.
Years later, when Kellyanne Conway was mocked for being photographed crouching on a couch in the Oval Office (with her shoes on), Dobbs was apoplectic at the “venom of the left,” shocked that the liberal media would criticize Conway after their “deplorable hypocrisy” in giving Obama s pass for putting his big Black feet on the desk. Little-known fact: JD Vance later fucked that very same couch.
Needless to say, if rightwingers were upset at Obama sitting in the Oval Office with his feet on the desk like many other presidents, including his immediate Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, you can only imagine the reaction if Obama had torn down part of the White House itself!
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Okay, yeah, you already saw the headline, so you know we’re talking about the multiple times wingnuts had a cow over photos of Barack Obama sitting in the Oval Office with his dirty born-in-Kenya feet up on the Resolute desk.
Years later, when Kellyanne Conway was mocked for being photographed crouching on a couch in the Oval Office (with her shoes on), Dobbs was apoplectic at the “venom of the left,” shocked that the liberal media would criticize Conway after their “deplorable hypocrisy” in giving Obama s pass for putting his big Black feet on the desk. Little-known fact: JD Vance later fucked that very same couch.
Needless to say, if rightwingers were upset at Obama sitting in the Oval Office with his feet on the desk like many other presidents, including his immediate Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, you can only imagine the reaction if Obama had torn down part of the White House itself!
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I actually saw this scene when I was a wee tot (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/white-house-mostly-reconstruction-original-180955229/)
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