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.
An ignorant, egotistical, emotionally stunted dotard rambles incoherently for 20 minutes. He controls the nuclear codes.
The media sticks their finger in their collective ear and goes “La La La.”
About 15 years ago I used to work in Murcia with in a very rural area. I remember this old man talking about how Obama is a terrible leader and real leadership is not talking about the previous guy in charge. I wonder if he is rolling in his grave or of he will support this bs.
I can’t remember Obama even doing that. He took responsibility for the absolute mess Bush left him.
Joe Biden just shat in my pants.
Americans: fuck that biden guy.
Yes, It finally happened: I’m done with this.
From now on I’m going to be amused by our country and its tolerance (…or even respect!) for lying fascists. buys popcorn and waits for recolonisation
The crazy thing is he’s doing this because Biden can’t defend himself and thus he gets away with it. It has the added bonus of proving Trump “right” because what other reason could Biden have for remaining silent?
Oh, FFS, Donvict is such a limpdick.
This economy had all the right indicators last year and this stooge inherited one of the best situations a President has ever been handed. Then, he and all his morons completely fucked it all up.
And still: about 30-some percent of this country cannot see what is plain as the nose on your face…and still support this complete dumbass.
Yet Americans will continue to believe the baseless stereotype that Republicans are better for the economy
They had to have something to fallback to after they talked him out of going to war with south america. Don’t kid yourself the rest of latin american countries will not sit still for it.
Tl;dr of everything:
Hands… So small…
He likes them undeveloped
“Who shit my pants!?!”
- some orange tinted pedophile
Looking over in horror from Britain - because we’ve still got our own version of this shit likely to come in a few years time. :-!
It seems to me Turmp’s real plan is to crash the economy so that the billionaires will be able to own everything. They will be able to buy it all dirt cheap in the coming recession. Billionaires get far richer in a crisis, it suits them fine since they already have the deepest pockets and are disaster capitalists who profit from instability and chaos.
Tmurp doesn’t care. He expects to live forever but even if he dies trying, it’ll still be his parting gift to his fellow rich bastards. His work is already done, the USA won’t recover from this for generations. He will be remembered forever as the greatest villain who ever lived in the history of the USA. He’s fine with that - he hates Everyone!
The AI bubble will pop so hard, not to even mention everything else going on. The money is all getting siphoned up in crypto and spirited away.
These fuckers are going to make an absolute killing, in more ways than one. They profit on chaos, despair and division.
I think it’s hard for people to imagine that an insane narcissistic demented president would deliberately wreck the global economy while telling the citizens it’s a golden age.
It’s all a distraction from the plundering of everything!
He’s got nothing to lose, a lot to gain, and he’s running out of time. The 1% are gonna own everything and fuck off to Argentina when the time comes.
No shit Sherlock!
Edit: At least, that seems to be the game plan from where I’m sitting.
I put this in a post elsewhere about his Golden Age comment.
It actually is a Golden Age. For billionaires and corporations.
And grifting pieces of shit like Donvict, who is able to rig the game. I’d love to see his family and his corporatist cronies imprisoned. Him, too, but I doubt he’ll live long enough to see any consequences if they ever come at all…
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!
/s
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
I thought he was going to fix the economy on ‘day one’. [looks at watch]
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault. <-- you are here
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.It would definitely be believable to have Pedonald blame the kids he raped for making them doing it. Or Biden/Obama/Clinton.
Trump the Unaccountable.
Blaming everyone for his failures brought upon by his executive decisions.
Brave Sir Taco.
The rot sent in when Trump got into office. The data shows that clearly. The Dems should be highlighting all his weak excuses and low-effort attempts at blame-shifting. Hang this crap economy right around Trump’s neck where it belongs.
And remember that, excluding the AI bubble, there has been essentially no economic growth at all lately. Well, 0.1%.
They are doing that, all the time. You choose not to listen.
Most corporatist/centrist Dems stand to benefit from the current status-quo and aren’t incentivised to support any radical shakeups.
This is causing the increasingly nihilistic populace (younger millennials and Gen Z) to flock to the extremes of the political spectrum. They rushed to Trump because he promised to improve their lot in life, and now they’re realising it was all a lie. They’re the cause for the 10+ point swings we’ve seen in the special and off-year elections thus far.
However, unless progressives are able to challenge and unseat existing Dems in sufficient numbers to be able to put forward a strong change in policy - we are only going to witness yet another exodus of support from the party towards the next GOP firebrand making false promises.
It takes longer to mend something than it does to break it, and I fear it will take 3-4 strong Dem presidential terms to undo the damage of the two Trump presidencies, let alone set the nation on a path towards prosperity.
Fucking bullshit buzzwords…exactly why we have Trump.
Needlessly dividing the party ensuring the issue you pretend to care about will continue to worsen.
Support among those younger voters for Trump has plummeted, maybe you shouldn’t have put so much effort in pushing your “both sides” propaganda, encouraging their nihilism.
Stop carrying water for the DNC, they don’t deserve it.
You have Trump (both times) because the vast majority of the population were unhappy with their circumstances, and the trajectory it was on.
How is it dividing the party to propose they follow their own bylaws and face a suits or primary challenge? Why is it their divine right to run unopposed, what - just because they’re incumbent septuagenarians who’ve gotten ungodly wealthy off insider trading and kick-backs from corporate lobbyists?
Make no mistake, the Dems are on track to win big in the mid-terms and in the 2028 election. But with feckless figures like Schumer and Jefferies at the helm, they are all but guaranteed to squander this once in a generation opportunity to make a fundamental change in the direction of the nation.
And when they inevitably drop the ball, young voters will seesaw back away from the Dems just as quickly as they did from Trump, and Biden before him.
Without a strong, progressive solution towards income, healthcare and housing affordability for the bottom 80%, and soon - America will not be able to pull itself out of the death-spiral it currently finds itself in.
More of the same failed Liberal policies simply won’t suffice in this day and age, and you are a gullible fool if you still think that it is.
