“Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living,” he told the crowd before suggesting a specific solution to prices hiked by his tariffs, which he continues to insist are a success. “You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice.”
Why pencils, literally the cheapest writing utensil available? I could see if it was a good pen/pencil set or a laptop, but a piece of wood with graphite? It’s less than a dollar.
I don’t even know if it is the cheapest option, and what the quality is, but I just searched Amazon for “pencils bulk”, and you can buy 1000 pencils for $51.34 - top of the result list.
That’s about a nickel a pencil. Or about $1.89 for 37 pencils, LOL.
People could give up a non-existent habit of buying 10,000 pencils a month and still not make up for the increase in health insurance costs that they are now facing thanks to Republicans who want to throw many of the country into absolute misery…
Probably some specific memory Trump has of seeing a cup with “too many pencils, why do you need so many pencils???” 40 years ago. Just like the doll thing. There are more modern, relevant examples of discretionary spending he could have chosen, but his brain is mush from 1985.
The ‘37 dolls’ could be from the cabbage patch era.
Like all Sociopathic Oligarchs, he’s got OCD hoarding disorder about money. He thinks in terms of quantity, the more the better, so while a doll might be an adequate gift, a GOOD gift would be 37 of them, probably all the same doll because of a volume discount. He’s just giving us permission to accept less.
Signs of sundowning and dementia with little hands on nuclear buttons.
I would bet a million dollars that he was looking at a pencil, probably somebody holding one, when he said it.
Man woman camera person pencil
Doesn’t he only ever use Sharpies to write?
That’s why he’s so Anti-Pencil.