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liberalla

(10,676 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:18 AM Sep 2

The White House posted this video today... what does it mean?

Plus, White House Announcement at 2:00 pm, as has already been posted.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trumps-11-life-lessons/


Or, the YT version:



They do a lot of odd things, but ???
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Attilatheblond

(7,218 posts)
2. ::sigh:: More information on video content might get more people to view it
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:21 AM
Sep 2

Life is too short to wade thru videos that may or may not be worth our time.

liberalla

(10,676 posts)
7. I was being purposely vague. I wanted to get the impressions of other people.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:48 AM
Sep 2

Without planting an idea or making a suggestion

Keeping In mind be's been very ill and in declining health, I saw it queried elsewhere as an
" in memorium..." video? The announcement could be about his failing health, or that it has actually failed.

This video, despite how weak and sick he is now, is a reminder of his earlier "powerful", "successful" self. A tribute of sorts.

After an announcement, if that's what it is, there would be much more in-depth, life story, memorial type video/info. This is pre-announcement, so not a typical memorial video.



Attilatheblond

(7,218 posts)
8. And I was being purposely honest about vidoes with little information
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:54 AM
Sep 2

Time is precious. A lot of people will pass on watching without content info

Doodley

(11,317 posts)
4. A bankrupt psychopath who had 100 million from his daddy, lecturing other people who he is screwing
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:06 AM
Sep 2

over to be a financial success.

BoRaGard

(7,465 posts)
6. "At last. It has happened. Now I truly and fully love Big Krasnov." - BoRaKlone
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:31 AM
Sep 2

"Like Winston Smith and all the magat republicans, I surrender to his MAGNIFICENCE AND WISDOM."

"I am not worthy," - - BoRaKlone

Ping Tung

(3,584 posts)
10. "....merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:09 PM
Sep 2
"....merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams". Thomas Jefferson

Tribetime

(6,831 posts)
11. It helps to do something great when your father gives you 10 million dollars.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:12 PM
Sep 2

And then bales you out with tens of millions of dollars after that

EndlessWire

(8,088 posts)
12. Softening us up
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:20 PM
Sep 2

for something we're not going to like.

Trying to appear as some wildly successful buinessman with some life advice for those wanting to be successful like him. Convicted felon, pedophile with friends trafficking children, three times married, twice impeached, multiple bankruptcies, hated by millions, cheating the military, and now apparently planning to take over Venezuela.

The video shows his advice laid out all at a younger age, as if he were still young and vigorous. Offering advice that anyone could have told their children. It's a tribute to himself.

Maybe he and Melania are getting divorced. It would be consistent with his general trend. A loser dictator who doesn't care who he gets killed. It's all about him. Shining up the turd he's offering the citizens of his country.

haele

(14,573 posts)
14. What was that quintessential 90's book - "The Secret"?
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:29 PM
Sep 2

A "If You Wish Hard Enough, You Will Attract What You Wish For" self help book for bougie bored housewives and the desperate.
This is pulled from all those wish fulfillment books.

The real "Secret" is to have lots of money (birth or windfall) to start with and/or find a network of successful people to get you to where you want to be in order for you to be able to "make your wishes come true".
And even then, that only gives you a 70/30 chance rather than a 20/80 chance to get at least half of what you wish for and be comfortable at the end.

allegorical oracle

(5,689 posts)
15. He loves himself -- when he believes he was at his best-looking self. He was no
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:48 PM
Sep 2

traffic-stopper. (Rather effeminate from this woman's vantage point.)

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