to try and win favor by flattering someone or trying to please them (perhaps even giving a gift).
Maximillian Potter (wasn't on the ballot)
@maxpotter.bsky.social
Trump now once again attempting to ingratiate himself with Americans and wash his crimes and corruption by “honoring” veterans and speaking of a selflessness and courage that the draft-dodging felon cannot comprehend. “What was in it for them?”
View on bsky.app
Anna Kornbluh
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
“the collaborators who helped create this crisis engender scorn, disgust, anger. Now that Trump is headed toward political oblivion get ready for them to tell us how they were always against this, trying to ingratiate and rehabilitate- don’t believe a word of it”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-collaborators-midterms-yale/
View on bsky.app
Philipp Markolin
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social
"Now that Trump is headed toward political oblivion, get ready for them to tell us how they were always against this, trying to do their part, to ingratiate and rehabilitate themselves with the rest of us—and don’t believe a word of it."
Brilliant and necessary article on the collaborators
View on bsky.app