“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.”
“Your daughters won’t even want dolls once I get through with them.”
Hopefully he forgets the bulletproof glass one day.
I’m not going to say he’s particularly wrong, but a) populists can’t get away with telling people to cut back, they’ve already demanded you trade your morals, freedom, and touch with reality for greed, and b) greed isn’t why people are mad, yes consumer goods are getting more expensive, but housing, food, and transportation along with raw materials have become unaffordable.
Panem et circenses. People will cheer for oppression if you ensure their needs are met and they aren’t bored. No amount of circuses will replace the bread. And this clown doesn’t really have the vigor he used to.
Even his devoted were getting bored to tears by them while there was an actual campaign going on. Personally I hope he just keeps doing it for the rest of his life, and the crowds keep getting smaller and smaller.
That would truly kill him if he through a rally and no one showed up.
I can’t wait until he’s back at four seasons total landscaping again. Those are the venues he belongs in
Eventually one of the only few ways to make money will be to get paid to attend his rallies.
He’s talking about dolls again?! I had to check the date… Yup.
Oh, so that wasn’t them quoting him from earlier in the year, he’s literally rehashing the weird number of dolls thing?
It’s always 37 of them with him.
In a row?
Every accusation is a confession?
I got the strangest deja vu reading this.
The syphilis has completely cooked his brain.
Poor syphilis in that brain. 😔
“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.
“Why can’t we get any Swedes?” Because Sweden is functional and we aren’t right now. The Norwegians feel the same.
What a moron. Just unbelievable
And yet, elected a SECOND time!
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.
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.
According to a new POLITICO poll, half of all Americans are finding it difficult to afford food. Even more damaging for Trump, a majority (55%) blames his administration. So Democrats were quick to pounce on his absurd advice. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona posted on X, “Trump needs private jets and an Oval Office covered in gold but your kid only needs one pencil.”
And because the president is nothing if not predictable, his speech eventually strayed from the economic gaslighting, quickly devolving into angry tangents about alternative energy, immigrants and other odd grievances.
In a particularly baffling moment, Trump attacked the concept of energy storage despite Pennsylvania having recently secured hundreds of jobs with a new zinc battery factory. “They want us to go to batteries!” he jeered. “We don’t have battery content. So let’s go to batteries according to these morons that were in our country.”
In 50 or so years he’s going to be a really fun subject for psych students to analyze
If (as he says) the economy is doing so well, why would people need to " learn to adjust to a lower standard of living"? Yet MAGA supporters just eat this stuff up without questioning.
The MAGA supporters are probably thinking the avocado toast eaters need to lower their standards of living, not themselves.
His “Let Them Eat Cake” Tour isn’t going well? Who woulda thunk?
“They want us to go to batteries!” he jeered. “We don’t have battery content. So let’s go to batteries according to these morons that were in our country.”
What is battery content? Does he mean the raw materials to make batteries?
We are in an age of portability, EVERYTHING uses batteries these days.
And if we don’t have the raw materials to build batteries, then we need to negotiate equitable trade deals with other nations. That’s why we use diplomacy, and don’t just impose our will on other nations.
How did we end up up with the most ignorant person in America as our president?
He’s very memeable. They don’t listen to his speeches they see shit on tic tok or some fascists YouTube or podcast and enjoy that he’s mean to libs. They want politics to be a reality TV show and they got their wish.
We’re in an age in which abundant natural sources of power are easier and easier to get electricity from and batteries keep getting better. Imagine telling someone in 1500 that you could store the power of a water wheel, and use it for your furnace or to replace your horse, and it’s at your demand.
Even with fossil fuel generation, batteries help solve one of the major pain in the ass problems: that input has to equal output. Grid scale batteries mean you can make a day’s power when it’s convenient for the generation side rather than having to have capacity and the labor to spin it up on standby.
But they’re all voting Republican again, because Brown Peepulz!
It’s also because their fathers father voted red, yada yada. They don’t want to break tradition by using facts and science.
Don’t forgit us nasty non god botherers.
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.”
Trump thinks the economic problem is pencil addicts and spoiled little girls. The guy is a mental ruin.
The guy is a mental ruin.
The guy is horribly detached from the reality of normal people, like everyone who’s born into wealth (or has been rich long enough to forget what it was like before). Remember that “how much does milk cost” thing?
The guy is a mental ruin too, of course, which doesn’t help.
So are all his voters.
Hopefully, this time even his brainwashed moron voters will be able to see through his bullshit lies.
The problem is that even if at some level they realize this, self-deceit and denial is an easier way to deal with the feeling that maybe their whole world view has been a bad mistake, than admitting their whole world view has been a bad mistake and changing it.
Too bad calling for a UN fair election monitoring/protection team is not a realistic or useful action.
In his defense I do think little girls are spending way too much money on K Pop Demon Hunter stuff… But that definitely isn’t the issue with the economy. It’s just everywhere. (I’m a teacher. Can we ban Six Seven and Bro as well?)
How much could one pencil cost, Michael? 10 dollars?
Here’s 20 dollars. Go see a Star War.
Give up 37 dolls. Wtf
I could never
Once you get past 10 you got to start giving up a few dolls or the drama might get too great. It kind of gets messy to be honest. 37 is quite a fucking lot. This is why I don’t join certain discords.
