Trump shuns 'ex-presidents club' -- and the feeling is mutual

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a club Donald Trump was never really interested in joining and certainly not so soon: the cadre of former commanders in chief who revere the presidency enough to put aside often bitter political differences and even join together in common cause.

Members of the ex-presidents club pose together for pictures. They smile and pat each other on the back while milling around historic events, or sit somberly side by side at VIP funerals. They take on special projects together. They rarely criticize one another and tend to offer even fewer harsh words about their White House successors.

Like so many other presidential traditions, however, this is one Trump seems likely to flout. Now that he's left office, it's hard to see him embracing the stately, exclusive club of living former presidents.

“He kind of laughed at the very notion that he would be accepted in the presidents club,” said Kate Andersen Brower, who interviewed Trump in 2019 for her book “Team of Five: The Presidents’ Club in the Age of Trump." “He was like, ‘I don’t think I’ll be accepted.'”

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[A HERETIC I AM]

1. I said as much the other day

He won’t be welcomed because the other men in the club aren’t likely to tolerate being anywhere near that giant horses ass


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214946697

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. A fascist pig who incited a murderous insurrection in an attempted

coup meant to keep himself in power after losing a free & fair action should be shunned, at the very least.

Not one of our previous presidents was perfect--some far less so than others--but all were better presidents and better men than pond scum Pissolini.

[left-of-center2012]

3. Drunk would be the proverbial skunk at a garden party

A most unwelcome guest

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. He was never actually a President.

He never accepted the burdens and responsibilities of the office, only the power and the glory.

He falsely thought himself bigger than the office, something that no of the others—not even Bush, whose presidency I opposed—ever did.

That’s why he is the Former Office Occupant (FOO) to me, and nothing more.

[mitch96]

8. " He was never actually a President" Correct, just a place marker for 4 years IMHO.

An manipulation of the system and invasion by a foreign power.
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[Montauk6]

11. That? Yes. But you know what he REALLY was...?

He was a guy that bought a scratch-off card and won a "You Too Can Be The President Of The United States" contest. And that's EXACTLY how he carried himself from Jan 2017 to last week.

[onethatcares]

5. imagine the conversations

him talking about melarias' kidneys, or sparkle princess' boob job. Or maybe how putin and he had such a grand time alone together reviewing out countries military secrets.

I don't believe he'd be accepted either.

[Billytee]

6. Frankly, Trump has not earned the right to be in that club.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. I bet it'll drive him nuts when the real ex-prezzes get together

He’ll wonder if they’re talking about him.

[mitch96]

9. You KNOW they will talk about him and ask ol' Bushy WTF? nt

[Chainfire]

10. If he thinks he is shunned by the former Presidents, think about how he will feel

when the historians get hold of him.