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Who are the "WE"?
Last night Trump said: "It doesn't really feel like we're being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before, we did nothing wrong, and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we've never had before."
Trump was the only person impeached by Congress last night.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)"I would like you to do US a favor though..."
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)that one of the Republican defenses of Trump is that he never uses the collective or "royal we," so that "us" could only mean the US of A.
Oopsie.
Bettie
(16,105 posts)giant orange head.
Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)he wants his followers to identify with him to the point that they feel that they are the ones being impeached and thus, rejected.
Very cult-like, dontcha think?
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)n/t
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,691 posts)The use of a plural pronoun to refer to a monarch, as in We are not amused. Fat Nixon thinks of himself monarchically.
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Manipulative control of the STUPID.
Alone he is nothing.
Assigning blame, creating fear and rejecting any accountability or responsible is the only way he can live with the fact that he has no redeeming character.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)has no business being in any position of authority.