“I can just see the fake headlines,” Trump said. “President Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump.”

“But I said, ‘I don’t give a damn, I’m gonna say it: We’re making a frickin fortune,’” he added.

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    Extorting a fortune from the working class. I can’t wait until an angry mob gives him the Mussolini finale

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    Missing a word there I think:

    Trump says he doesn’t ‘give a damn’ about gas prices as US BILLIONAIRES are making a ‘fortune’

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    It baffles me that people see this guy getting increasingly unhinged the farther into his dementia he gets, and they just shrug. Congress could remove him anytime they want too.

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    Advisers told me not to say it

    is the right “build up” before the punch line.

    He’s bragged about destroying the world through Iran war with the same brag before. Also adding, that destroying world is good for America because of high US oil production and US doesn’t need Straight of Hormuz.

    So there’s always been a tails we lose, heads we deserved to lose all along, plan for the war.

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    It’s because his usage of ‘fake’ doesn’t mean what one might think. He simply means a headline that he doesn’t like.

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    How can a non-wealthy trump supporter hear this and continue to support him?

    He’s pissing in your fucking face.

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      This is Trump we’re talking about. His mask was always paper thin and falling off fifteen minutes after he said anything “politically savvy”

      Anyone who has been fooled by him is a fucking idiot.

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        Can you see any difference between the “drain the swamp” stuff from round 1 and openly gloating about how profitable the little people’s struggles are?

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          The only difference between round 1 and this time is round 1 there were some in his party that thought they could control him and it was blatantly obvious they weren’t ready to actually win the election. That’s why you had so much turnover and can actually set a political time period of a Scaramucci being 10 days. This time around the Heritage Foundation hitched their wagon to his horse. Remember also, he bought the hotel right down from the white house and refused to separate himself from it so you had foreign influences staying there trying to get cozy with him.

          Openly gloating about how profitable the little people’s struggles are, he did plenty of that in Covid, and if you knew anything about the man, plenty before he was elected. This is the guy who’s always been infamous for not paying his debts.

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            As a far more casual observer, round 1 the cartoon business villain from “the apprentice” promised to use his signature catchphrase on the crooked politicians everyone was already so sick of and round 2 has been a victory lap where perhaps the most crooked ‘politician’ of all time revels in the hypocrisy of gleefully marketing us to the highest bidder, with the full support of his only constituents that actually matter (the corpo scum buying). Remember that supreme court thing where they said corporations were people now? At this point I’m waiting for one where they just come out and say people aren’t anymore. Already kinda went and made speech meaningfully impossible without money

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      It should be, people do get it covered. Talk to your union rep if the company doesn’t cover your commute.

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          If it’s covered then it’s a business expense. You can deduct it from your taxes and get the non-tax value as compensation.

          The companies don’t need to cover the gas tax.

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    Translation: This is working just as the child rapist intended - transferring wealth from ordinary Americans to the 1%, exactly the same as his tariffs.

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      It’s not even the 1% anymore. It’s the 0.01%.

      You can even see this in the enclave cities where everyone is a millionaire. They’re experiencing a round of gentrification as the billionaires come in and bulldoze a row of 5 million dollar mansions to build compounds.

      It’s absolutely wild.

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    “I can see the fake headlines: Trump says thing that Trump believes.”

    “But I don’t give a damn, (says thing that “fake” headlines say)”

    MAGA: “YEAH! If I had more than one braincell beating itself over the head I might be confused by your statement! But thankfully I have NO braincells!”

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    USA is also making a fortune on the Russian war on Ukraine. And Trump doesn’t give a shit about Ukrainians dying every day.
    Trump is a psycho or rather malignant narcissist which is even worse than psycho- and sociopath combined.
    And Americans are evil as a country for voting him in.

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    Yeah, because donnie dumbass made 2+ billion dollars since the start of his second failed term.