“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.”
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.
He’s talking about dolls again?! I had to check the date… Yup.
He said the stupid pencil thing again, too.
I mean, FFS. Does he have any idea what pencils even cost? And has he been told people are just using a crazy amount of them in school?
This is like the “boomer math” thing with large screen TVs, avocado toast, lattes, and Netflix dialed up to eleven. I just looked on Amazon, and you can buy a box of 576 of them for $35.99. That’s about 6 cents a pencil. Enough pencils for one child to use 37 of them per year for ten years and still have some left over.
Does he think people are coming up short on things like health care because they chose to buy more pencils (and dolls) for their kids?
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’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.
“Your daughters won’t even want dolls once I get through with them.”
“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.
What a moron. Just unbelievable
And yet, elected a SECOND time!
“Why can’t we get any Swedes?” Because Sweden is functional and we aren’t right now. The Norwegians feel the same.
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.
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.
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?
Are we great again?
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.
Only if you lower your standard of living. Rtfa!
/s
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.
I still find it hilarious that something like avocado toast (and arugula, lol. And Dijon mustard) has ended up as a shorthand for snobbish effete youngsters who probably also drink their tea with a pinky in the air, but are unable to afford housing and healthcare and childcare, because they are just bad at managing their money and blew it all on these luxury items etc…
I mean, avocados spread on toast. Soooo elitist.
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
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.
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.
That would truly kill him if he through a rally and no one showed up.
The syphilis has completely cooked his brain.
Poor syphilis in that brain. 😔
Give up 37 dolls. Wtf
Hopefully he forgets the bulletproof glass one day.
But they’re all voting Republican again, because Brown Peepulz!
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…
It’s also because their fathers father voted red, yada yada. They don’t want to break tradition by using facts and science.
