Obama and Trump Suddenly Look Very Friendly
One sign among many of fading resistance to Trump
If there’s an image that sticks out from the past week it is of President Trump and President Obama amiably chatting while seated next to each other at President Carter’s funeral.
“It did look very friendly, I must say. I didn’t realize it, how friendly it looked,” Trump said today.
Add Obama to the list of examples of powerful people who seem to be coming to terms with Trump, convincing themselves that he is best dealt with not as a mortal threat to the future of America as a constitutional republic, but rather as the president-elect.
Obama has ample company. A Washington Post cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, quit after the paper “killed” (she says) her cartoon depicting Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos alongside other media and tech executives (Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman) bowing down and giving money to Trump.
The same “women’s march” group that the New York Times claims mustered 470,000 people to a 2017 anti-Trump protest only has 40,000 signed up so far for a Saturday, January 18, 2025 event in Washington.
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