President Trump: How & Why...

Why HN readers recommended it

Shared after the 2016 election and later as a pithy account of why Trump won and why political division needs to be moved past.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jonathan Pie

Topic

2016 us election

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• As a Democrat-voting libertarian with very Republican family, I think Jonathan Pie encapsulated it perfectly just a few days after the election: [VIDEO] The truly sad part is that the Democratic party seemingly hasn't learned anything in the last four years, and are well on …

• ...I feel like I need to keep adding a disclaimer that I'm not a Trump supporter... Please don't, it does not add anything to the discourse. It does not matter whether you support him or not when pointing out facts (or fallacies, for that matter). …

• > in the past week, as we reel from the 2016 presidential election Unless of course, you voted for him. I'm just gonna leave this here, he says it better than I could: [VIDEO]