Trump claims 'a lot of people don't see' that America has 'the greatest economy right now' as voters vent anger over affordability
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A lot of people also don't see that the Netherlands have been lifted from the Eurasian continent and landed on the Moon.
In both cases, people don't see it because it's not true.
are we sure about the Netherlands? I haven't been there for a long yime
yea, they liked lifting from the ocean so much that they kept going all the way to the moon
Oh good, they don't know about the moon thing yet. Yes, the Netherlands are right where you left it, carry on.
He’s stealing billions so he thinks everyone is doing well because he only cares about himself
Yup. Bingo. This is exactly it, and other billionaires think this is the case also.
They're going to be really confused and outraged when people start eating them.
Yea! It's like they've never learned from history! If they ever opened up a history book they would see... Umm...
Flips through history book
Oh... Uhh...
Flips more frantically through history book
Oh... Oh no... Err....
Throws history book away
Anyways, the rich are definitely going to learn their lesson this time!
No, I'm pretty sure he's just lying
Guess it depends on what you think signals a strong economy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-billionaires-oxfam-elizabeth-warren-b2857535.html
All the people that matter to trump are doing great
Except his bestie Jeffrey, probably the only person he ever cared about
Alas, so many little secrets died that day
Presumably that's all from stocks, so when the bubble pops they may be back to where they started.
I mean, we can dream.
Nah, all the money is going to end up invested elsewhere or in an offshore account before everything crashes.
This is exactly the mistake that the Dems made going into 2024. They shouted from the rooftops about how great Biden's economy was, while completely ignoring how cost of living was destroying the average person.
Trump has managed to make those problems even worse, fritter away the few good things Biden's economy did have going for it (low unemployment, significant investment in certain manufacturing sectors) and now they're doing exactly the same play. But it's going to take the Dems waking the fuck up and actually offering real solutions on cost of living to capitalise on this. That's how they won on the 4th; every candidate that won, from progressives like Mamdami to moderate centrists, talked about affordability, the one thing Biden and Harris refused to acknowledge.
The greatest economy for whom?
The big question most journos are paid quite well to not ask.
AI companies, tech bros, wall st, landlords, and oligarchs.
Sociopathic Oligarchs, the only people who matter.
Donald Trump spelled forward is also a synonym for asshole!
We all start development as deuterostomes, meaning we all start off as just an asshole and grow from there, Trump's biological development never progressed. He's just an asshole.
The current US economy is the greatest economy... if you're a billionaire
If you're a landlord collecting rent from 1,000 tenants, you're rolling in cash right now
If you own a large amount of stocks, you're rolling in cash right now
The economy is great for the rich because they're able to take all the value generated by the working class
You can generally replace the word 'economy' with 'rich people's yachts' -
"Trump claims ‘a lot of people don’t see’ that America has ‘the greatest rich people's yachts right now’ .
Yep - still works.
Is he having a Skinner "No, it's the children who are wrong" moment?
More like all the people there are chronically trying to manage the emotions of an enraged toddler so they don't accidentally cause a ketchup-flinging incident, so they tell him what they think he wants to hear, only then he tantrums when reality pierces the baby carriage.
Precisely.
No. It's a continuous process, not a moment.
Good lord, what is happening in this country!?
...Greatest Economy?
Uh... Greatest Economy? During this recession, when people can't afford food because nobody has money, while it is entirely being hogged by your billionaire friends!?
Yes!
...can it trickle down?
...No.
He thinks that because he is grifting like a motherfucker and racking up billions in schemes like crypto shitcoins.
He is completely divorced from reality.
Me and my friends are doing great. Don't know why the poor are complaining.
Exactly! Although I think it's more that his only reality is what's directly in front of him at any moment, but sama sama.
I agree that a lot of people don't see the truth of the American economy: they're in a fucking recession.
The USA is fucking trash. These billionaires are literally cancer on our society.
They're gold hoarding dragons and we need a team of adventurers to bring them down
Yes a 90% tax rate on the wealthy like post ww2. Make it an amendment
You can’t gaslight a vote that happened two days ago you makeup-tinted idiot
They'll just keep at it until it does change. Remember, everyone was frantic and upset the day after January 6 but nowadays it's all just "peaceful tourists taking a walk". Repeat a lie long enough and loudly enough - especially with the help of complicit propaganda engines across all types of media - and people will believe and defend that "reality".
Press play on the video? I’m not sure what to tell you, we just have to keep laughing these morons out of polite conversation since they’re so weird and deranged. They’re welcome to play in fantasy land, but not with the rest of us adults
How's that working out? Those morons vote.
The results of Tuesday’s elections worked out great
Glad to hear everything is going great in the US now.
You ok?
"Just let them eat Graphics cards instead!"
Alternative title:
Demented orange rapist sees things that aren't there, yet he's still not been removed from power.
"It was. Then it fell over on the floor having a heart attack. I stood at my desk looking confused." - Trump
He’s right. A lot of people don’t see it. Because it’s not there!!!
Greatest, for asshole parasites who already have too much and are okay with predating on poor people...
Vibecession!
The Economies New Clothes.
If you are a predatory Sociopathic Oligarch, than America is the greatest place to be plying your exploitation strategies, and indulging your OCD financial hoarding mental illness.
It sucks for everyone else, but empathy is not something Trump understands. He probably doesn't even know that world, just like he'd never heard the word GROCERIES before the last campaign.
If you substitute *rich people's yacht money" for economy, then his statement becomes correct
It doesn't matter how great the economy is if people can't afford groceries, motherfucker.
It's true! It's invisible to most. Only the 1%ers can see it. If you can't see it, you're not worthy.
Is the great economy in the room with us?
When applying for the same job I had 10years ago which was lost due to a massive layoff now posted again, WITH THE SAME SALARY…. Nope! America is trash!
Wow this is almost exactly what people were upset at joe biden for (even though biden at least attempted to reduce debt burdens). Weird how this plays out.
Boomer logic ..... they have life so good that they honestly believe that everyone else of every generation should be like them. They have no clue or little understanding that times have changed and people are living with little or not enough but they just don't care.
Slightly more boomers voted conservative in the last few elections than voted liberal. Slightly more of the younger generations voted liberal. The difference isn't that stark. If you attended any of the no kings protests, you saw that the overwhelming majority were older folks. This kind of age prejudice isn't helping anything.
That's what shocked me last No Kings protest. I saw tons of older folks and even some people I know are die-hard conservative Republicans with signs out in the middle of town.
Things are worse than Trump and the beltway oligarchs know. Gilded fishbowls and all that.
At least some of the demographics is likely because older folks often have more free time to be able to get out and protest, but I know an awful lot of passionately liberal boomers.
And you're right, now that conservatives are being undeniably impacted, it seems that their support of Trump might be faltering.
Not all boomers.
People with eyes can see their bank accounts and grocery prices, dipshit
It’s super cool how the regime thinks they can dictate what the economy does and what socioeconomic conditions exist on the ground by just insisting that they’re true, despite copious and obvious evidence to the contrary.
To be perfectly fair to the Cheeto gremlin, which is a good deal more than he deserves:
Since he has been constantly surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for a long time, it is quite possible that he actually believes the economy is doing great due to nobody having the spine to tell him any different. All day every day it's "everything is going great, sir" and "you're the best President the planet has ever been graced with, sir" and "size doesn't matter and the female orgasm is a myth, sir".
It's still his own fault for creating such an environment with his incompetence and his fragile ego, of course. But he might honestly believe his own bullshit in this case.
Apparently this is closer to the truth than people know. Trump is so simple-minded that he has his morning briefs presented to him in video form with bullet points that contain simplified explanations. Also lots of AI chaff is put in front of him, like Portland on fire and reduced to a smoldering heap, people eating dogs and cats and angry kids assaulting ICE agents and being violently taken down. Anyone not recall the pictures of Kilmar Garcia’s hands with the obviously shittily Photoshopped MS13 letters on the knuckles? Tie bad eyesight to simpleminded, drug and age related mental decline and well… here we are.
Greatest economy? Isn’t this one of the cornerstones of the argument used to vote for trump? How the evil democrats said the economy was great (while simultaneously somehow acknowledging it wasn’t and trying to push policy through to boost it for middle class) and forgot about the little guy?
It seems obvious to Trump the economy is great because of how many rubes and influence-seekers have bought his crypto.
Of course not, he's imploding a country. Death by a thousand cuts.
He's Putin's running dog.
I would be shocked to learn that he can actually "run".
This approach worked great for Biden, let's see how well it works for the Orange
So great that you will release an accurate jobs report? Didn't think so. But hey, we're told AI will take all the jobs. So at least we got that going for us. /s
It's hard to see what isn't.
Oh it's going gangbusters for Trump after all the money he's been able to steal from it. A lot of people don't see that, apparently.
I can see it perfectly clearly. That's what's pissing me off.
The greatest economy is when billionaires are bribing you specifically by donating to whatever dumb idea you stole from TV in exchange for regulatory capture
The Emperor's New Clothes
His inner circle of sycophants and/or billionaire has been getting richer at the depends of everyone else in the country. He has no idea of the reality happening outside of what that circle tells him.
he switched places. he won because he didn't do this and pretended he understands people are suffering. now that he's in power he doesn't want to admit that so he's doing the Democratic Party Special™ which is just to tell people their experiences and feelings are wrong and things are actually great which is why they fucking lose all the goddamn time. stupid move when mamdani wiped the floor with the entire elite class with his affordability message.
People who see things that aren't there are people with severe mental problems.
Yeah double down on that and see how 2026 goes for ya'll.
They can't see something that isn't there