“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’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.”
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.
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.
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. 😔
I hope the syphilis is okay.
Hopefully he forgets the bulletproof glass one day.
As floppy as his sweats
How much could one pencil cost, Michael? 10 dollars?
Here’s 20 dollars. Go see a Star War.
Are we great again?
Not Great Depression level yet; just Severely Depressed now.
Mediocre Depression
Are we sure about that? They keep refusing to release the economic reports, and us having lost 30% of our economy sounds reasonable.
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.
Mostly ceramic and wood, but you still have a sharp point.
A feckin pencil
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…
Yes, just with less pencils and dolls.
Only if you lower your standard of living. Rtfa!
/s
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.
The guy is a mental ruin.
The guy is horribly detached from the reality of normal people, like everyone who’s born into wealth (or has been rich long enough to forget what it was like before). Remember that “how much does milk cost” thing?
The guy is a mental ruin too, of course, which doesn’t help.
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?)
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.
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…
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.
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.
Signs of sundowning and dementia with little hands on nuclear buttons.
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.
It’s very clear Donald Trump doesn’t understand how the working class lives at all
Trump doesn’t understand anything except greed.
“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.
“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.
What a moron. Just unbelievable
And yet, elected a SECOND time!
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.
His “Let Them Eat Cake” Tour isn’t going well? Who woulda thunk?
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.
Just eat less avocado toast and then you too can have an $80k lifted 4x4 you only use to commute back and forth to work.
