Is an anti-consumerism Trump on anyone's bingo card??
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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More like two meals instead of three
Nothing like a rich guy who has never known struggle to tell everyone else they need to struggle because he's a moron
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Bad luck for the ones who could only afford two to start with huh?
"It's One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?"
“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.
“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”
Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.
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Why parrot his bullshit in the headline? China will not suffer as much as the US. This is such bullshit.
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Even the Grinch didn't go on TV to tell peoole he was stealing Christmas.
Americans are basically winning because they aren't suffering the most
Trump singlehandedly destroying American overconsumption.
Fuck this shit.
Nobody cares about how many dolls kids are getting.
Ah yes, the country with an established industrial base and centrally planned infrastructure is gonna suffer more from tariffs than the checks notes usury and consumption economy run by competing interests and bolstered almost entirely by the ownership of foreign assets and reliance on its currency for international trade.
Honestly my only conclusion is that they know and are willing to create an economic crisis for the purpose of consolidating political power in the form of "emergency measures" as fascists usually do. I refuse to believe they are just stupid
Trump, and many of his supporters, think that America is China's biggest client. They're totally blind to the idea that China is China's biggest client, and that it's not even close.
Their total lack of understanding of the world outside their little exceptionalist bubble is hilarious and depressing
I make a point of not listening to what felon rapist traitors say.
American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,”
Operating on the assumption that most households aren't buying their kids 30 dolls (and those that do are probably going to be under the least economic pressure to cut spending), if American households actually cut spending on their kids by a proportional 93% of whatever they were going to spend, I expect that midterms are going to be interesting.
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but wait until he can't find a good inflatable doll any longer...
Trump has no idea how the world works at all
“Kids might get two calories per day instead of 2,000. But hey, Chinese kids will suffer too!”
Almost everything we buy is from china including MAGA goods. This moron does not have a clue
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