“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.”

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    “Why is it we only take people from s**thole countries? Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few?”

    Maybe because people from civilised countries can see that America is the real shithole?

    But I’m sure bullying and betraying your EU allies and shitting on them is gonna make all the smart people emigrate to the USA.

    What a moron. Just unbelievable.

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      16 hours ago

      “Why can’t we get any Swedes?” Because Sweden is functional and we aren’t right now. The Norwegians feel the same.

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      Yeah, they come over here to buy jeans at a 1/3 the price and gun parts. Otherwise, everything else we sell here is cheap quality and tastes terrible compared to European options.

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      It’s because we’re only barely above a shit hole country ourselves, so we’re a step up for them, but decent countries won’t lower themselves.