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Unf*cking The Republic

The Revenge Porn Presidency: Trump, Commodus, and the Unraveling of Empire.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Politics, Government, News

4.8758 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is tearing the nation apart. To place his revenge-filled presidency in historical context we have to reach deep into the annals of history and revisit the tenure of famed Roman Emperor Commodus who historians perceive as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. With this second term Trump has entered rarified air that few U.S. presidents have breathed. He has fundamentally altered the culture, the country and its people. Moving past this moment will be our greatest challenge.

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0:00.0

Listen to us talk, we're a world renowns, download our podcast, where you will consume all the doom and gloom from 99 and max.

0:20.5

Many sound design always inspires to your heart's desire hey man you know there's

0:27.9

nothing that we lack past your ears and to your mind through the heart all the facts

0:34.9

on your podcasting app comes a basic white man with a rusty microphone in his red right hand.

0:51.8

If Donald Trump's first term was characterized by chaos, corruption, and COVID, then the second

0:59.6

term is officially the revenge porn term. Determined to settle scores and add to his personal

1:06.6

fortunes, Trump is dismantling the state with a ruthless efficiency that belies his slovenly persona.

1:13.6

He has us so caught up in his personal minutia and hanging on every bizarre social post or

1:19.6

outbursts that he has that it's nearly impossible to take a dispassionate view from afar

1:25.3

to put him in historical context. So today, I'm attempting to do just

1:30.8

that, as succinctly as I know how to do, which means not at all. So what I wanted to do was step back

1:38.3

and try to place this man in historical context, even though history is continually unfolding

1:43.5

around only him, it seems.

1:45.8

And I got to tell you, in doing so, my conclusion is that his tenure will indeed be historic.

1:53.5

I think that his name will live alongside some of the most prominent and notorious political figures in history. His name alone will come to

2:04.0

signify something, like Machiavelli, Orwell, McCarthy, names that automatically convey an

2:12.8

attitude, a sentiment, or a method. Trumpism, Trumpian, whatever the iteration,

2:18.9

I truly believe that it will come to stand for something terrible.

2:26.5

UNFTR.

2:28.7

I think people overuse the frog and boiling water analogy,

2:32.4

but we are heating up.

2:36.3

We're changing. Our perception of the world, of right and wrong, of rituals and norms is demonstrably changing. He's

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