President Donald Trump’s launch of a nationwide “affordability tour” this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration’s tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing.
More like “Trump grades his personal economy”, mostly due to bribes and grifting.
I mean, yeah - by some accounts he could have doubled his net worth over the past year alone thanks to Trump coin alone!
Dementia Speaks, folks… That’s for sure.
He’s actually coming out of hiding? Hey PA. show him how your grandparents dealt with fascists in WWII
Five pluses, huh?
Imagine how dire things would be if it was only an A++!
Are you all so happy with the massive amount of greatness that’s been restored to America?
We sadly live in a post-truth, vibe-based political culture. Anything bad that happens is because of the Other Guys™, everything good that happens is because of Our Guys™.
Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his followers will believe it, because the truth and facts and statistics and other such measurable and objective bars for success aren’t as important as how Trump makes them feel like they are getting everything they wanted. Even if they know they aren’t.
Says the demented and out of touch old fool who’s never missed a meal in his miserable life.
I like to believe that one’s 30s is old age.
Fake picture!! I can tell because he’s not nodded off.
Except it’s not HIM sitting in that room. He’s made billions since taking office again. It’s going great for him.
He’s sitting somewhere else entirely. It’s just all us non billionaires and the non-centimillionaires sitting in that room.
And wildly his stupid, demented, dipshit dumb fuck, dumb ass moron, troglodyte base will believe it and echo it at max volume at any given opportunity.
They themselves are losing everything to Trump and will demand you believe the opposite lest you contradict their god-emporer.
Ran into an idiot at a bar that kept claiming up and down his cost of living has gone down and his groceries aren’t expensive. Literally everyone around him called him a dumbass. It seemed like he was literally so dumb that he was just told that the cost of things had gone down so he believed it.
That’s literally just it.
They could be lit on fire and as long as Trump or Fox News tells them they’re not on fire, they’ll believe it and spread bullshit that stop drop and roll is a communist conspiracy.
Just remember that “the economy” really stands for “rich people’s yacht money” – by that metric it’s doing great.
Forbes: “The stock market is doing really well.” MAGAs: “YAY!” Me: “The stock market has nothing to do with YOU!”
I mean, it sort of does, particularly as far as retirement is concerned. I know some MAGA diehards that are, to a significant degree, judging by the metric of their 401k/Roth retirement savings accounts, and the value of those accounts are necessarily going to be tightly linked with the overall performance of the stock market by virtue of the fact that they are investment account.
Now, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the US stock market has been largely decoupled from reality since at least 2008. Consequently, the current state of the stock market no longer functions as any kind of meaningful metric for economic health. It is, in my view, just a system for speculation which exists to transfer wealth out of the pockets of the people attempting to beat the market and into the pockets of the people who already have enough money or influence to make the market. Even decoupled from reality as it is, however, I find it a dubious prospect that the line can ever keep going up indefinitely - they never do, and especially not when so many other (arguably more concrete) economic indicators are pointing the other way.
Looking at you, load-bearing (and suspiciously bubble-shaped) AI hype, looking at you.
Should such a crash happen, I’ll be very excited to hear what rationalization they pivot into this time. Who knows, maybe Trump will get control of the fed like he wants and then we can throw hyperinflation (and likely a subsequent de-dollarisation) into the mix to really take the already roaring garbage fire up a notch. I’m certain that this fascist will be just as cautious and responsible with the money cannon as his dictator peers have historically been.
Says the man who doesn’t buy “groceries” but thinks it’s a made up word.
hmm, groceries, that sounds … gross
42% still thinks Diaper Donnie is doing an excellent job though.
Look at an IQ distribution and then add in severe mental disability such as alzheimers and dementia. BAM!
The “+”’s cover up the “SSHOLE”
You can always tell when Trump knows he’s in the shit because he doubles down.
