Ant and Obama go one on one
You can tell Obama loves that he treats him like a normal dude and not a former president
I don’t think Ant is capable of treating any politician as a politician
Probably doesn’t even know who is Bush or Clinton
Despite living in Minnesota, wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t name the current vice president
Jay Dee Vance isn’t from Minnesota, he’s from Kentucky
Bro is living in the good dimension and crossed over
I think he would know them from memes and jokes rather than what they actually did in office.
Ant got sloppy underneath the press conference table
Ant seems like he treats everyone the same.
to be fair anthony edwards is not a… multifaceted personality
He’s obviously not book smart but he charms the hell out of everyone he meets. A complete moron would not have that gift.
people fucking love trump
Trump is actually quite funny if you take away all the seriously fucked up shit he does and is doing. He’s got that senile old fart thing where you moreso laugh at how ridiculous he is than actually laughing with him.
In the real non alternate universe that we should be in, he would have been a comedian and entertainer instead of fucking around with the presidency and politics.
Correction he WAS moderately funny 10 years ago. Now he is just unintentionally funny.
i think he was unintentionally funny 10 years ago and no longer funny at all now
It’s all kinda unintentional when you’re just doing senile old guy stuff. He coulda just done the continuation of Veep and acted as the president and this all would have been so much better. And actually entertaining.
Trump as he is would be a hysterical TV president. The fact he is a real life one is the problem.
Yeah and then you got people actually laughing honestly along with him like they don’t get that they’re at the very end of any joke he ultimately makes. Well those same folks are starting to wake up to the horror of it all.
It comes across as crazy to me that he’s fucked things up in the pandemic, scammed your entire economy multiple times and now shoved your country in new multiple wars and yet I still keep reading comments like this on reddit about how unintentionally endearing the guy is
Jesus christ
Oh don’t get it twisted - most absolutely hate his guts. We just wish this was an inconsequential.
I get that you do, it just feels like there’s this crazy soft gloves mentality in the US in general with how practically every time I see his name being brought up online it’s got comments about how he’s actually really charismatic, smart, funny or whatever
I don’t mean to single you out with this, it’s just a type of comment I see frequently
Oh no it’s just my analysis on his personality as presented to the public. Of course the actual him is a true monster, someone even Epstein says is horrible. His only success ever was entertainment. Should have stuck there. But he’s a fool.
He’s funny because any intelligent person would be laughing at him, if you’re laughing with him you’re an idiot
Got that right
ive been saying if he was just canadian PM instead of us president it would just be histerical and inconsequental and i’d love watching it a la rob ford (ik he was mayor)
It’s that taking away the seriously fucked up shit part. He does, says and means some absolutely heinous things that can’t exist in a vacuum here. At least, I can’t make myself see it like that all the way through.
We ultimately can only look at someone’s actions to know who they are. And we know who he is.
He was basically an entertainer. The character he was playing just happened to share his name.
Trump isn’t a moron, he is a smarmy, wormy and wily fuck. He is deliberate and intentional with his evil ways.
No, hes a fucking moron. I dont understand why people have this bias that evil people are super smart. They actually tend to be dumber than average, because intelligence tends to lead to empathy.
It’s actually exactly why his shtick works with so many bumbling idiots, he’s actually so stupid that he’s not smart enough to realize he’s acting which sells it. It’s why a lot of the people who try and emulate the shtick fail. They cant BE that stupid without giving it away that they’re acting.
I dont understand why people have this bias that evil people are super smart.
Never said that in that way which is kind of unrelated but ok. Morons can’t keep up the facade for 73 years. I really don’t like the fact that I’m arguing for the asshole lol.
intelligence tends to lead to empathy.
This is probably why you believe the first part but its not really true. People can be intelligent and not give a flying fuck about anyone. There is a correlation between successful people and narcissism though if thats what you meant.
Literally everyone who’s interacted with the dude says he’s the dumbest motherfucker ever. He sounds like the dumbest motherfucker everytime he speaks, he’s bankrupted every business he’s ever owned, like I dunno how much evidence you need on paper to just go “okay maybe this dude is stupid”.
I think you’re just one of those money = must be smart type people. Go listen to C suite people, most of em are dipshits too in the modern age.
He’s stupid and the people who elected him are stupid. Now he’s in charge. It’s not that complicated.
I don’t need the evidence. Calling him dumb is actually making the excuses for him by saying he can’t be held accountable in the same way a baby can’t be held accountable. He is every which of the way an evil peice of shit. The morons are the ones supporting him.
We agree on everything else about the guy but he’d 1000% rather you call him an idiot and a moron lol.
But you can absolutely hold dumb people accountable. He doesn’t have some kind of literal mental deficiency. He has no interest in learning. That’s what makes him an idiot. He doesn’t know anything about anything. I dated a girl who met him, he’s genuinely an idiot.
Only thing people arguing with you about is that you’re thinking that he can’t be both. He is an absolute imbecile. He also knows enough to take advantage of others. Guy is a predator, if you’re willing to screw over everyone you know you will get ahead. That is an unfortunate fact of life that the Trump clan has built their wealth on.
False equivalence.
Calling him an idiot does not mean its excuses for him to not be held accountable. No one is saying he is mentally incapacitated and is a vegetable. Dumb criminals exist and go to jail all the time. Its quite the opposite you’re implying, by saying he has intelligence implies he was a clever criminal who managed to get away with it for so many years. You don’t need to be smart to be evil.
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Of course you need the evidence! lmao. The evidence is on the person making the claim.
It’s called the burden of proof!
>Never said that in that way which is kind of unrelated but ok. Morons can’t keep up the facade for 73 years. I really don’t like the fact that I’m arguing for the asshole lol.
This is the argument from incredulity. You cannot imagine an idiot getting away with being an idiot, therefore him being an idiot must be false and he must be intelligent somehow. He was articulate and charismatic, but that can’t be confused with intelligence.
In idiot getting away with being an idiot for 73 years? Yeah not possible. Clearly he knows what he is. He knows people to help get what he wants. He knows people want things from him. He is an intelligent animal.
Agree to disagree dude. He’s an idiot who had sucklers around his whole life. He’s not stephen millers, he’s not epstein. This guy has exhibited no form of intelligence, publicly, privately, I don’t think you can point to a single example. Your argument is well, he got away with it for almost a century. That’s not an argument.
Okay, he knows how to manipulate people. That is different from intelligence. Bullies pick on people. I wouldn’t call a bully intelligent. I wouldn’t call a bully who’s charismatic smart either. I guess this is subjective in nature but I would have liked to hear your case more than he’s been able to get away with it. He is a bully, he curries favor with washington rejects, people that look good on TV. They know they never have a chance in washington without him, so they cater to him. That’s manipulation.
Can you please tell me why its not possible without arguing incredulity?
Again, just because you can’t imagine in your head that someone can be an idiot and get away for some time, does not therefore make that logical leap true. Its just your brain can’t wrap your mind around that. Its your personal belief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity
I don’t get how people give him so much credit. The guy is an idiot. A priveileged idiot. You don’t have to be smart to be an idiot.
Charismatic idoots exists. Its a popular term.
You don’t have to be smart to be an idiot.
Lmao what is that sentence.
Trump is special. He does not know very much despite the fact he has been president for years of his life he seems incapable of understanding a lot of aspects of the world and what a president can and cannot do. This is indeed stupid. However he also has an equally genius ability to grab attention, he knows how to get people to pay attention to him and manipulate people into talking about what he wants them to talk about. He is very good socially, he is charismatic. Not to me, but obviously to a large number of people. So Trump is unevenly intelligent.
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Trump would never act stupid on purpose. He has a huge ego and thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. He pretends to know about things he has no idea about, quite literally the opposite of acting dumb/uninformed.
He’s a bad liar, that doesnt make him intelligent. He said he never heard of the iranian girls school getting bombed after it was proven that our missile struck it. However before that he claimed multiple times that it was Iran and they had “bad aim”. Was it smart for him to pretend he didn’t know about a subject he spoke about multiple times? No it was a pathetic obvious lie and more proof that we have no standard or accountability for him as a leader.
Trump is actually quite witty too, a sign of intelligence
I made a comment already stating Trump is not an idiot and actually quite smart and good at manipulating people. However to claim that everything he does is 4D chess or calculated is also wrong. He is a wildcard and not particularly knowledgeable about the details of say foreign policy(obviously) or how things work and that’s not an act. He really doesn’t know.
And he is not a complete moron unless you hang out on reddit all day
He’s pretty clearly an idiot if you listen to him ramble
Even if you listen to him word for word you know he is a complete fucking moron.
Then the people who lost to him twice must be even dumber
Or you underestimate how many stupid people are in America.
Its funny how its not that we lost because we have exposed our own incompetence. Its that people are so stupid they inexplicably keep winning. This site brainwashes people the patterns dont match up with reality
This site? I’m sorry you support pedophiles. Fucking weird dude.
Do you think age 78 Biden was smarter than age 74ish Trump? Winning an election isn’t just an IQ test
FWIW, I don’t think he’s necessarily a “complete moron” either (though I think he thinks he’s smarter than he is and surrounds himself with yes-men), but I disagree with the notion that winning elections is entirely down to who is smarter
I believe that trump isnt a moron by understanding why trump makes the moves he makes instead of letting dumbass reddit destabilization bots on highly suspect subreddits tell me how to think about how he’s just stupid. You dont even have to agree with the choices to understand why they are competent. And you dont become president twice by being a moron. Every geopolitical move he has made has had an understandable reasoning behind it. Even ICE as a controversy is just for political gain. Obama has deported more people than trump. Its literally just propaganda on this site to smear and destabilize. Its the cambridge analytica textbook.
Every geopolitical move he has made has had an understandable reasoning behind it.
Eh, I don’t feel like getting into some deep specific arguments rn, but IMO some moves come off as understandable even if I don’t agree with them, while others come off like he’s either super arrogant, getting misled by “deep state” guys, or if you’re conspiracy-minded, getting blackmailed by Israel lol.
Even ICE as a controversy is just for political gain
IDK if you mean in the sense that the left is making it a controversy for political gain, or in the sense that Trump is intentionally being inflammatory for political gain. Like, Trump is clearly going out of his way to fan the flames (e.g. his Truth Social posts, the DHS calling the Minnesota guy a domestic terrorist, etc.), and even if one acknowledges that this polarization is intentional and strategic, that wouldn’t make it any less worthy of being upset if you’re some guy on Reddit who doesn’t like it. So I wouldn’t say the outrage over that is just Reddit propaganda-driven
You don’t hold the most powerful post in the world without being pretty intelligent/gifted in certain aspects even if they aren’t the aspects we should judge to elect a president
He’s got the Forrest Gump kind of charm
Not at all. Are you racist or just plain stupid?
lol wtf how is calling someone with the regular dumb guy charm racist?!
Because he doesn’t sound dumb. He doesn’t talk like Forrest Gump he just has a southern accent, his charm has nothing to do with being dumb. Redditors are so fucking stupid
Dude Ant definitely come across with an ignorant mentality at times, juxtaposed by some degree of insightfulness too - exactly like Forrest. This has NOTHING to do with race first of all, second of all the accent is a REGIONAL not racial thing.
Now go on about “Redditors” meanwhile you better start looking in the mirror because clearly you have the self awareness of a goldfish in a bowl…
His charm comes from being confident, easygoing and funny. Have you watched Forrest Gump? He can barely string sentences together. Does ant ever sound like he can’t string sentences? He’s straight up glib.
It’s racist because the majority of southern players in the NBA are black (vast majority, I’m not even sure if any southern white players come to mind) and anytime a southern black athlete speaks Redditors like you call them them dumb. If you watch Ant talk and think his charm comes from being foolish, you’re from Poland, racist, or just slow yourself.
Forrest Gump was charming in the same way, very simple but then will surprise you with things he notices in that simplicity.
Ok so it’s racist because “Redditors like me” say the southern accent makes people sound dumb, and that because most people in the NBA from the south are black so ALL OF THAT makes me racist. Yeah. Right. 😂😂😂 gotta be one of the biggest reaches of all time.
I’ll say it again so you don’t keep speaking for me - had NOTHING to do with race. Case in point? Forrest is white.
He definitely sounds dumb. Yall have lost the plot if we’re pretending Ant isn’t an idiot that happens to be great at something that’s made him very wealthy.
What does that make you? An idiot who isn’t good at anything?
I just get the sense he has really incredible interpersonal skills
What does that even mean
I think he’s being nice but saying he’s not very smart so he doesn’t know better so it comes across as funny since it’s natural to him and he’s being sincere/himself
Or he’s a genuine person that doesn’t feel the need to “fake” it like most people. Nothing about Ant comes off as dumb to me
dumb people dont think dumb people are dumb
you just described politics on reddit
No dummies think everybody that isn’t from their culture or doesn’t speak exactly like them are dumb. Thanks for outing yourself dummy lol
Very well could be the case, I’m not in a position to judge him
He’s just a country dude he acts like every guy from the country
How is Atlanta country lol
People from the north think the south is just plantations and peanut farms.
24 years old. 4 kids. 4 different mothers. All born within a year
I think its 3. Granted I don’t count Ants kids, but I think its the woman and daughter he lives with. The woman the internet says he paid 18years of CS in one go but who knows, believe she was also abortion chick. Then the 3rd is some chick with a kid with a rapper, that one doesn’t seem to have information pop up a ton and only 1 seems messy.
I was just responding to the fact that the other comment said he doesn’t think he has done anything dumb to them. I think that whole situation isnt a smart move by someone
Oh no far from smart. Mostly a young dude who grew up in a sad family situation finding older women to hook up with and not think about pregnancy. Seems to have figured it out, no new baby news at least.
I have never met the dude, nor do I know his life story so I’m not going to judge him as a person. However, that situation is dumb and irresponsible. Not saying he can’t be an incredible and supportive father to every kid. Or that he’s should be completely defined by that situation alone. He just became an extremely important person to those kids at an extremely young age.
I never said he didn’t do anything “dumb” I said I wouldn’t call him dumb. He’s a young,rich and talented young man in America that came from nothing. He has definitely made reckless decisions there’s no denying that but he seems like a genuine kid that’s just a little reckless and immature I’m not calling him dumb. That’s just me though I guess
“Nothing about ant comes off as dumb to me”
Going off of that, I’d say that his decision making when it comes to having so many kids is dumb.
Having kids like that isn’t a little immature thing like getting too drunk one night or whatever. Dude created a bunch of children seemly without planning it. Thats dumb. He can totally be a great dad to them all of you cant excuse him as just “a little reckless” lol. Thats just me though I guess
Edit: Just had to get that last reply in before blocking me huh? He did a dumb thing man, doesn’t mean he’s a bad person. But having kids isnt “a little reckless” lol
i mean i was trying to say it nicely
to be fair dys0n_giddey is not a… multifaceted personality
I hope you were saying that nicely WoundWaffle
I was bro, don’t worry 🫂
Ant’s one of the realest dudes, so you just he had a few wild comments they had to cut out. I’m just thinking of some of his post-game comments in the past, and he’s got no filter.
like a normal dude and not a war criminal
People always say this nonsense but I highly doubt that an ex-president, unless their term sucked, would rather be treated like a normal person than a former president. He spent the large part of his life trying to become a president. Why would he not want the continued respect that goes with it?
People always say this because that’s the only way for them to take someone’s success away from them. It’s not that President Obama loves this but you love it. You love seeing someone who seems down to earth
But surely you can’t believe what you say here because I’m fairly certain you also don’t follow President Obama either. You have no idea how he interacts with others. You just desperately want to believe this because it makes you feel a bit more comfortable
What you don’t realize is that Ant is closer to President Obama than he is to any of us. They’re both famous, and once you pass a level of fame, you can start seeing each other as peers. That’s why in this context, Ant doesn’t have to suck up to him as a larger than life figure because Ant knows a lot of other celebrities.
But I promise you, President Obama would probably rather be treated as someone who touched many lives in a positive way as the leader of a nation than as a normal ass dude. What you’re seeing here is called PR and it works every damn time
its not black and white, being treated like a larger than life figure is nice sometimes and being treated like a bro is also nice sometimes and not all famous people treat him like a bro
Interesting because you are pretty much equally projecting some expected nature of these people onto them without knowing them whatsoever in real life, so why is your projection better than OP’s? Why do you have to make any assumptions about these people at all?
People always say this nonsense but I highly doubt that an ex-president, unless their term sucked, would rather be treated like a normal person than a former president.
It’s not an either/or situation. He gets treated like a former president 99.99% of the time by 99.99% of the people he encounters, I’d guess. It’s pretty easy to understand why it’d be refreshing to have someone just treat you like another dude for a conversation.
What a silly comment
Find me other athletes who treat Obama this way.
Lebron Curry, etc., all treat him with the respect his office deserves. They speak differently and act differently because that’s what anyone would do. Ant for better or worse does not, and you can tell Obama likes it because of how rare it is.
Yes, overall he’d rather be respected, but you can tell that he is happy with someone who can still be their “authentic self” around him. A one-off thing makes it special.
Personally, I dont care what Obama looks like or if he is relatable, just like I dont care about how Bush comes off, or how Clinton does, that was a weird rant you went into.
I will say that Ant and I have always had the same level of control over our nuclear arsenal, so we are a lot closer in that way than he is to Obama.
Can’t believe Barack cooked him so hard it put him on the bench for 1-2 weeks with an injury smh
Obama: I don’t want you hurting yourself
Ant today:
Hit his knee with that top-secret CIA Havana syndrome gun. Talm bout “I’m the truth”… Boi I got microwave bullets in my shit.
This is why I never understood why people overrreact to how Ant treated him on Team USA and should’ve acted more “professionally” when in reality he’s probably tired of all that PR talk and loves when people have convos as normal human beings
Obama is a trash talker. He has trash talked quite a few people in regard to basketball (told Rondo he can’t shoot to his face). Ant just matched his energy. He was the president, but he’s still human.
Around the NBA guys is when it seems like Obama gets to act like one of the guys almost. Yeah the players all respect him and know him, but he’s also a fan of alot of players and loves basketball. Just people who like eachother enough to talk normally and joke around.
He is The Mayor for Life of Basketball
Man he is. I remember that one video where a guy told him to not touch her girlfriend but touched her anyway and kissed her even.
He also trash talked NHL player Phil Kessel when he visited the white house.
Send da video
Hell nawl can’t do dis
“stand down”
Send da drones
Read up on Russia’s “post” Cold War tactics, then see how it got copied.
Any popular/potential western cultural icons will have divisiveness the moment the opportunity allows it.
Yeah man Russia is the reason people don’t like Ant.
That viral clip made me a fan for life
Honestly need more authenticity and interesting/charismatic characters instead of just people who are good at what they do nowadays.
Iight. Pull up then.
When Obama is talking but you can’t see him it truly does sound like Jordan Peele’s impression
He’s actually perpetually impersonating Peele’s impersonation.
This dude is so funny. Imagine texting Barack “pull up then” lmao
Imagine Barack texting back “pull out”
Hell nawI
Ant seems to enjoy just going on side quests. I’d watch a whole ass series of that
Pretty sure that is a series coming up. Wasn’t he just playing ping pong with the Olympian on camera because of the TV show. Some streaming channel.
It was on Amazon Prime. But there is only 1 episode so if I had to guess it was a “pilot episode “ and for whatever reason the show didn’t get picked up.
I’m assuming they’ll film over the summer when the season is over. He probably doesn’t have time to film and schedule matches with other athletes during the season
This video with Obama was probably over All-star, the only break in the season.
Wemby seems to like going on side quests.
Feels like the side quests seem to find Ant lol
There was a Travel Channel show with a linebacker named Dhani Jones. He goes around the world trying other sports. It’s called “Dhani Tackles the Globe.” It is fucking hilarious. “Surfings the problem” after he falls off the board and it hits him in the head is something I use in everyday conversation. Also, trying Jai Alai and is terrified at the speed of the ball.
I think I saw a quote where he said he’s going to play football if he wins a chip before 30 and I genuinely hope it happens
His next side quest should to be in his kid’s life. I like Ant, but being an absentee father just because you have the money to pay off the child support in lump sum isn’t cool.
Calling the former president “OG” is wild
“even ray charles’s could see this one”
Too mich dip on yo chip
But somehow I expect it from Ant. He’s a wild guy.
And then later an “oldhead” lol
I feel like these two could star in a Netflix series called ‘Unc and Nephew’ or something lol
Uncle Barry and Lil Ant
Unc and Ant.
“The bank open on Sundays for me.” - The Truth
“I was born AT night not LAST night”
The way Ant has just completely avoided cancellation to the point of being Obama’s best buddy just shows how much our society reveres cool pro athletes
It also helps that he’s completely authentic and usually comes off like a good person
charisma + talent = they let you do whatever
There’s a lot of players (and coaches) in the league with way worse shit than Ant
grab em by the pussy
Now that’s a phrase I can get behind
cancellation hasn’t been a thing since like 2019
Probably because at this point you cant be anything without being cancelled. Eventually the world stops caring
Timothee chalamet deadass just lost an oscar because he said people dont care about opera
In 2019 most Redditors would tell you that cancel culture did NOT exist
That’s because it never did, or rather, it didn’t start then. Bad people faced consequences for being bad people when people realized they were bad people, as they always had been. It’s just the standards changed.
Good person doesn’t abandon their kid, even if they didn’t want to keep the child.
I wouldn’t say he’s bad but that’s a huge blemish of publicly disowning your own kid and paying the child support like a bar tab.
My comment was worded specifically to not say that he is a good person, only that he usually comes off as one
fair enough.
GOAT blunt rotation
Choom gang.
Throw in Willie, snoop, and bill nye and I’m in
Replace snoop wit wiz Khalifa and we good.
I can respect that.
then replace Wiz Khalifa with Rachael Ray
Wtf 😂
Obama is in some incredible shape. Smoker too.
He quit smoking in 2011.
No “smoker” as in geez what a babe
Get off my lawn, you damn kids!
The person you were replying to was joking btw, just so we’re clear lol
You damn kids got me again!!!
don’t sleep on Barry O
And his jump shot is hella wet
I miss Obama
Someone really made a thread last week asking why Ant isn’t famous lol
Politics aside, Obama was just a cool dude.
He should be commissioner
I would think Obama would be talking with KD about their shared investments
Too real. We got this generation’s Chuck!
My favorite strike buster <<<<333
10 toes in baby
“I don’t know who OG is, but he got game”
Why can’t I open this video?
Do they kiss
Should Obama be the next NBA commissioner?
Obama living the GOAT life. Retire for life from President young enough to have fun.
I want to like Ant so bad but the thousand baby mommas thing makes it hard
I wish Ant wasn’t a dead beat father. Hopefully he’ll come around on that kid. It sucks for a kid when the father doesn’t even want to acknowledge their existence.
dont leave him alone with michelle, put some secret service around her.
Why does the NBA love this deadbeat hoodrat wannabe so much? Can’t wait for his inevitable arrest for guns or domestic abuse 🥰
This seems like a lot of racial stereotypes, based on a bad thing Ant did and still does.
You’re the one that added race. If the shoe fits
Maybe they were talking about all the countries he bombed
Like the current potus? FOH