“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.”
This is some how more out of touch than Dr Oz and his charcuterie board shopping trip. Yes, you don’t need pencils, the suddenly luxury good in my economy.
It’s very clear Donald Trump doesn’t understand how the working class lives at all
Trump doesn’t understand anything except greed.
Why pencils, literally the cheapest writing utensil available? I could see if it was a good pen/pencil set or a laptop, but a piece of wood with graphite? It’s less than a dollar.
I don’t even know if it is the cheapest option, and what the quality is, but I just searched Amazon for “pencils bulk”, and you can buy 1000 pencils for $51.34 - top of the result list.
That’s about a nickel a pencil. Or about $1.89 for 37 pencils, LOL.
People could give up a non-existent habit of buying 10,000 pencils a month and still not make up for the increase in health insurance costs that they are now facing thanks to Republicans who want to throw many of the country into absolute misery…
I would bet a million dollars that he was looking at a pencil, probably somebody holding one, when he said it.
Man woman camera person pencil
Doesn’t he only ever use Sharpies to write?
That’s why he’s so Anti-Pencil.
Probably some specific memory Trump has of seeing a cup with “too many pencils, why do you need so many pencils???” 40 years ago. Just like the doll thing. There are more modern, relevant examples of discretionary spending he could have chosen, but his brain is mush from 1985.
Signs of sundowning and dementia with little hands on nuclear buttons.
The ‘37 dolls’ could be from the cabbage patch era.
Like all Sociopathic Oligarchs, he’s got OCD hoarding disorder about money. He thinks in terms of quantity, the more the better, so while a doll might be an adequate gift, a GOOD gift would be 37 of them, probably all the same doll because of a volume discount. He’s just giving us permission to accept less.
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.
As floppy as his sweats
“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.
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.
“Why can’t we get any Swedes?” Because Sweden is functional and we aren’t right now. The Norwegians feel the same.
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.
What a moron. Just unbelievable
And yet, elected a SECOND time!
The syphilis has completely cooked his brain.
Poor syphilis in that brain. 😔
I hope the syphilis is okay.
I had to laugh at Leavitt fielding a question in which she was asked about the optics of a BILLIONAIRE telling people to buy less gifts for their kids.
So, we just get one gilded gold ballroom with a solid gold toilet now?
So this joker can also make pencils disappear
eww…
The other guy did it better and with more class (took a sec for the reference)
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.
Yep, I think that’s a factor too. I remember telling some bible-banger the stats on the drop-off in xtianity back in the mid-00s, and he didn’t believe me. I just casually mentioned that about 80% or just under are xtians in America, and dropping. He claimed it was more like 95+%, LOL. I sent him some links, showing how it was trending down by about 1% per year, and he practically broke out in a sweat, visibly, talking about it ever after that.
He was in a real spiral over xtians not being the majority at some future point.
Gee, I wonder why that is? No one is going to take his little book club away. The real concern is not having his views being constantly centered every day, with xtians being given special treatment and politicians constantly wearing their xtianity on their sleeves (he called Democrats “Demoncrats” but pretty much all of them are xtian as well and will tell you so at every opportunity) and so on.
I wonder how people like him are dealing with xtianity now hovering in the low 60s. I suspect that white panic and xtian panic is a driving force for a lot of the worst impulses of conservatism…
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
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
That was Roodles, but yeah.
Eventually one of the only few ways to make money will be to get paid to attend his rallies.
How much could one pencil cost, Michael? 10 dollars?
Here’s 20 dollars. Go see a Star War.
Are we great again?
Only if you lower your standard of living. Rtfa!
/s
Not Great Depression level yet; just Severely Depressed now.
Are we sure about that? They keep refusing to release the economic reports, and us having lost 30% of our economy sounds reasonable.
Yes, just with less pencils and dolls.
Yeah we are great now.
Can’t you tell, we have less pencils in our home and umm… pencils are made with lead, and that is bad for us.
Oh, they are also made with wood and that can catch fire. So our homes are safer.
Umm and uhh… You know, I could slip and fall on a pencil.
So, yeah, We are great again.
/s < if it wasn’t obvious.
Also I know pencils are not made of lead, they are made of graphite.
A feckin pencil
Mostly ceramic and wood, but you still have a sharp point.
Da! Da! You now have similar living standard as great power of russia. Too many poor? We have solution to that too - bestest solution, da.
Sorry no dying in a wheat field for us. Now if theres a jungle with socialists in it…
“Your daughters won’t even want dolls once I get through with them.”
Trump marched onstage insisting he was ready to make America “affordable again,” a line crafted to evoke Reagan-era economic populism that instead conjured Jimmy Carter calling for personal austerity. Trump declared he had “no higher priority” before launching into his usual misdirection by blaming the rising cost of living on his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Keep blaming Biden! Despite assurances things would be fixed as early as the first day, the USA is still not in that great of a shape. How many people will allow Trump to quit taking accountability? Every day that we get more into a Trump presidency it should be harder and harder to blame your predecessor.
If Biden left this country in such a shambles that even the almighty Trump is unable to right the ship, then why the heck did the Donald say he could?
Our gullible countrymen ate it right up and a good amount continue to do so. Mortgaging your future to own the libs.
Keep blaming Biden!
They ALL fucking do it. I just saw that stupid bitch Noem start off one of her non-answering “answers” with some bullshit about Biden. Thankfully the piece of shit got immediately called on it.
Q: Why are you breaking the law when it comes to immigration enforcement? A: Well, President Biden…
That stupid SpokesBarbie Karoline does it, too. Same with Mikey Johnson, and on and on.
And I only wish it was confined to Republicans, but it doesn’t stop there, sadly. Lots of so called independents, centrists and leftists, do it too.
