Rally-style series of boasts does not include much in the way of plans to address affordability crisis
Donald Trump on Wednesday used a nationally-televised address to deliver a campaign-style rant in which he blamed his predecessor for the economic woes Americans are feeling a year into his presidency while offering little in the way of proposals to address the higher prices caused in large part by the massive tariffs he has placed on almost all American imports.
Speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Trump opened by claiming to have “inherited a mess” that he was now “fixing.”
What followed was a partisan rant indistinguishable from the signature rallies that have been the centerpiece of his political movement, in which he rattled off a list of grievances while blaming his predecessor for the state of the country nearly a full year after he took the oath of office.
Without having listened to his speech…did he happen to mention anything that he’s done to “fix” the nation? Because from out here, it kind of looks like everything he’s doing, is just making things worse.
He claimed that all these tariffs will cause just a ton of companies to build big factories all of a sudden next year.
He claimed that getting all those Hispanics out will mean more jobs and houses for the rest.
Basically that everything they’ve done is right, and depending on which minute he is speaking the economy is already great and everyone is lying about it or it’s bad but only because of Biden but in 2026 everything he did will finally work.
They’ve evidently already made the call that millions of people losing healthcare is a small enough percentage to not worry about. I’ve been presuming that they would pull off a seemingly better circumstance by temporarily unwinding their worst policies, but they may be actually true believers…
Just bear in mind that whenever Trump refers to ‘America’ or ‘the nation’ he’s only referring to himself. Everything makes much more sense when you remember that.
Haven’t you seen? He’s rounding up all the foreigners, anyone else he deems “other”, and picking a fight with Venezuela. What more could you possibly want him to do?
Gut international aid?
Shut down the education department?
Remove science from the centre for disease control?
Use the media regulator to pressure and shut down dissenting voices?
Threaten universities?
Deploy troops on the streets?
He’s doing these things already. America will be great again™ in no time!
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In about two weeks!
That’s why he was put in: to sabotage the economy, US soft power, and alliances. And who benefits? Putin, who’d be in even more rapidly accelerating free-fall without all of Trump’s help.
From his perspective things look better because he added gold ornamentations & embellishments to the walls in his office, and he renovated the historic Lincoln restroom in the White House and he fired everyone who would’ve told him he’s not allowed to hire a demolition crew to tear down the east wing of the White House.
I hope he blows a gasket while straining on one of his gold-plated shitters.
He made like 3 things less expensive [to the corporations importing them] by removing the tariffs he added.
So… progress?
He banned food coloring… I think. And got more Americans to stop blindly following the DNC. Besides that… Not much.
The DNC did nothing wrong and Bernie told you to vote for Harris.
The problem is you and every other dumbass voter “sticking it to the man” instead of doing what needed to be done.
You think you’re demonstrating loyalty to Bernie sinking the Democrats. Bernie fucking hates you. You set back the policies he care about by decades.
Let’s now downplay the food coloring thing. We’ve allowed food dyes that have been banned in the rest of the developed world because of how bad they are to human health.
Doesn’t really fix any of the other horrible things going on, but it’s good.it finally happened