President Donald Trump’s launch of a nationwide “affordability tour” this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration’s tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing.
Trump Grades Economy ‘A+++++’ as Americans Skip Medical Care and Struggle to Afford Essentials
https://www.commondreams.org/news/impact-of-trumps-tariffs-on-us-economy
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 275d
If nothing else, it'll be fun to see MAGA try and balance their cultish devotion to Trump clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 275d
Blame immigrants, blame democrats, blame other countries... There will be no clashing.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 275d
Trump could literally in broad daylight kick them in the balls while looking at them in the eye ... and MAGA idiots will still blame the democrats for it.
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 275d
"Trump HAD to kick me in the balls to get back at the Demoncrats because...."
-Some MAGA moron probably
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 275d
It was a Biden executive order with an autopen for sure. Trump is a patriot for following the law and kicking me in the balls.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 275d
Promise: EVERYTHING
Deliver: NOTHING
Blame:
OBAMABIDENPattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 275d
A few years ago it was "thanks Obama"
molestme247@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 275d
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 274d
don’t you know the tariffs aren’t working because of the ACTIVIST JUDGES?!
don’t you know that CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS are cheating the system?
don’t you know that RADICAL DEMOCRATS are needlessly non-compliant with ICE and THATS why it’s not all sunshine and rainbows?
don’t you know that CANADA is to blame for the lack of tourism?
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 275d
The same people that hung on to every syllable that came out of Biden's mouth, pounced on the most minor grammatical mistakes, and seemed to have memorized every word the man uttered in his latest speech now suddenly they claim they don't keep up with the news they haven't heard what Trump is saying and they'll look it up later.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
Yep. All of them become Mariah Carey when it comes to knowing anything about what Pedonald is up to, include little Mikey Johnson...
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 275d
Oh, that's easy. It's the immigrants' fault. Or it's Biden's fault. Or it's the Democrats' fault.
When objective truths don't hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.
Arancello@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 275d
Oh come on. Everyone knows its Venezuela thats been doing these nasty things to mercan patriots with their narcocommunist submarine regimechange programs.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
It's the Antifa with their Obama ACORNs and their Alinsky-style tactics...
hanrahan@piefed.social · 2 pts · 275d
They won't blame Trump, its big government working against him that's the problem.
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 275d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 275d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 275d
Except it's not HIM sitting in that room. He's made billions since taking office again. It's going great for him.
He's sitting somewhere else entirely. It's just all us non billionaires and the non-centimillionaires sitting in that room.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 274d
Fake picture!! I can tell because he's not nodded off.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 274d
Just remember that "the economy" really stands for "rich people's yacht money" -- by that metric it's doing great.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 273d
Forbes: "The stock market is doing really well."
MAGAs: "YAY!"
Me: "The stock market has nothing to do with YOU!"
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 273d
I mean, it sort of does, particularly as far as retirement is concerned. I know some MAGA diehards that are, to a significant degree, judging by the metric of their 401k/Roth retirement savings accounts, and the value of those accounts are necessarily going to be tightly linked with the overall performance of the stock market by virtue of the fact that they are investment account.
Now, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the US stock market has been largely decoupled from reality since at least 2008. Consequently, the current state of the stock market no longer functions as any kind of meaningful metric for economic health. It is, in my view, just a system for speculation which exists to transfer wealth out of the pockets of the people attempting to beat the market and into the pockets of the people who already have enough money or influence to make the market. Even decoupled from reality as it is, however, I find it a dubious prospect that the line can ever keep going up indefinitely - they never do, and especially not when so many other (arguably more concrete) economic indicators are pointing the other way.
Looking at you, load-bearing (and suspiciously bubble-shaped) AI hype, looking at you.
Should such a crash happen, I’ll be very excited to hear what rationalization they pivot into this time. Who knows, maybe Trump will get control of the fed like he wants and then we can throw hyperinflation (and likely a subsequent de-dollarisation) into the mix to really take the already roaring garbage fire up a notch. I’m certain that this fascist will be just as cautious and responsible with the money cannon as his dictator peers have historically been.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 275d
When he says “america” he means himself. When he says “the economy” he means his bank accounts.
I’m not being glib, I’m being literal. L’État, c’est moi. He has merged himself with the state.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 274d
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 275d
He’s lowered prescription drug prices by 1500%, too.
Like numbers mean anything to this deranged ape.
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com · 23 pts · 275d
42% still thinks Diaper Donnie is doing an excellent job though.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
Look at an IQ distribution and then add in severe mental disability such as alzheimers and dementia. BAM!
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 275d
Yeah. Fraudsters have never had it easier.
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 275d
Good time to be a grifter; good time to be an extortionist; good time to be a politician with his own cryptocurrency. Nothing else is real.
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 275d
Hmmm, sounds like a good time to bring a group of 2A loving friends with you and extort your local MAGAt officials. You know they're raking in tons of dirty money. Show like ICE(masked up, refuse to show badges or ID) and take what you want from them. If they resist... They had something to hide. Disappear them. Concrete and 50 gallon plastic barrels are cheap, and lakes/rivers/oceans are plentiful
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 275d
At what point does this insanity end America? Are you not embarrassed enough yet as a country
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 275d
We're not even in Bush-Era levels of economic crisis. Obama couldn't win a Senate seat on these terms.
If anything, we're still riding the lingering high of post-COVID revival of ZIRP and the Fed Free Money Machine. The dominoes Trump started knocking over at the start of the year are still tumbling. Quite a few of us are fully removed from the consequences to date.
FFS, we haven't even been hit with a hurricane yet. Talk to me after another Harvey or Katrina, when we're looking at some real acute social crisis. Talk to me when unemployment gets north of 5%. The BLM / Occupy levels of public dissidence doesn't pop off until we're in the 6-10% range.
No. We won't properly be embarrassed until its a personal problem we can blame on the President. Right now its all someone else's problem. The college kid's problem. The migrant's problem. The guy on Medicaid's problem. Right now we can do the funny memes on LeopardsEatingFaces sub where we joke about how Trumpies are getting what they deserve.
Talk to me when I'm out on my ass with an eviction notice because my industry just fired half its workforce. Talk to me when the local grocery store is emptied out by a hedge fund that's bankrupted the agricultural supply chain. Talk to me when its my turn to get a knock at the door from ICE.
Then I'll be embarrassed. Now I'm content to be smugly dismissive of everyone else.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 275d
You're an idiot
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 275d
Dude's not wrong though.. the level of cognitive dissonance in the American public is breathtaking. Once the fox starts to gnaw, as they say.. It'll be a different story.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 275d
Jesusfuckinsaurus, I can hear the whoosh from here.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 275d
Maybe, I dunno. It was a weird postsn. And early
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 275d
Well just add a /s to the post you replied to, and, while it is more bitter and critical than sarcastic, it will make more sense.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
I'm embarrassed af. I'm being as vocal as possible and preparing for any eventuality
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 275d
I'm sure it's going A+++++ to the 10th power.....for him.
He's got the grift and fraud machine firing on all cylinders. And no one is stopping him. People giving him planes. People funneling billions to him via crypto.
utopiah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 274d
Eh, does it though?
His "coin" https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/ went from 40B to 6B in less than a year, top holders owns 80% (I imagine him), others top 10 get few millions at most and everybody else has 8%. That looks like a pretty bad outcome even for bribes.
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 274d
Considering that it cost him nothing to create the coins, I'd say he and his fellow top-holders have gained $4.8B. The 20% they've already converted to cash, mostly in the beginning, north of $25, is another $6B. When you're selling a stock of free bytes, it really doesn't matter what the rubes are willing to pay each other in the secondary market. They've already cashed out: anything left is just gravy.
utopiah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 274d
I doubt it. Sure it's not infrastructure and I don't know who gave him money and why but I imagine they had expectations. I imagine he promised more than his beautiful smiles. He might not deliver on his promises (as usual) but if those aren't donations then the people who didn't spend a few billions for favors will reconsider their "investments".
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
I don't know the cost of doing an ICO, given all the shitcoins out there, I don't think it can be very much.
Even if it cost him several million to set up, he and his family and whoever else is cut in likely made out with a lot of money...
And I'm not sure his crypto money-making schemes are limited to his shitcoins....I thought there was indication that money is being funneled to him for bribes via other means on the crypto market but I don't remember the details.
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 274d
His coin is nothing compared to the stock market
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 274d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 275d
More like "Trump grades his personal economy", mostly due to bribes and grifting.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 274d
I mean, yeah - by some accounts he could have doubled his net worth over the past year alone thanks to Trump coin alone!
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 274d
This is some North Korea level deception.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 273d
something something final, most essential command ...
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 275d
Five pluses, huh?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 275d
Imagine how dire things would be if it was only an A++!
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 275d
He's actually coming out of hiding? Hey PA. show him how your grandparents dealt with fascists in WWII
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 275d
More like ASSSSSSS
molestme247@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 275d
billwashere@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 274d
Says the man who doesn’t buy “groceries” but thinks it’s a made up word.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 273d
hmm, groceries, that sounds ... gross
goosehorse@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 274d
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 274d
You need to understand that politicians and billionaires use a different dictionary. In that one, 'economy' is defined as 'rich people's money, assets and influence'. Applying this definition, everything makes sense.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 274d
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 274d
Honestly, it's like listening to a child, trying to lie to you. Everyone knows that a really great economy has SIX pluses!
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 274d
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
Ah, the 'ol 1984 "quintuple plus good."
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 275d
"That affordability thing is fake news. All of my billionaire friends have been able to afford more than ever."
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 275d
I should sell stocks…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
You can make tons of money selling stocks. Trick is to find enough buyers.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 275d
Dementia Speaks, folks.. That's for sure.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 273d
Maybe he meant the economy of billionaires?
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 274d
Says the demented and out of touch old fool who's never missed a meal in his miserable life.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 275d
And wildly his stupid, demented, dipshit dumb fuck, dumb ass moron, troglodyte base will believe it and echo it at max volume at any given opportunity.
They themselves are losing everything to Trump and will demand you believe the opposite lest you contradict their god-emporer.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 275d
Ran into an idiot at a bar that kept claiming up and down his cost of living has gone down and his groceries aren't expensive. Literally everyone around him called him a dumbass. It seemed like he was literally so dumb that he was just told that the cost of things had gone down so he believed it.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 274d
That's literally just it.
They could be lit on fire and as long as Trump or Fox News tells them they're not on fire, they'll believe it and spread bullshit that stop drop and roll is a communist conspiracy.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 274d
Are you all so happy with the massive amount of greatness that's been restored to America?
Furbag@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 274d
We sadly live in a post-truth, vibe-based political culture. Anything bad that happens is because of the Other Guys™, everything good that happens is because of Our Guys™.
Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his followers will believe it, because the truth and facts and statistics and other such measurable and objective bars for success aren't as important as how Trump makes them feel like they are getting everything they wanted. Even if they know they aren't.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 275d
Says the man who got a peace prize from a cracker jack box!
blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
If literally anyone in the world in a serious position said literally anything had that grade I would not believe them.
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 275d
What a bunch of garbage.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d
+^+^
santa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 271d
The “+”’s cover up the “SSHOLE”
FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 273d
Next he plans to fix the economy by issuing pardons to the farmers.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 275d
I like to believe that one's 30s is old age.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 275d
I wanna see his grading rubric we should demand he makes it public.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 271d
You can always tell when Trump knows he's in the shit because he doubles down.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
Basic foodstuffs have increased in price by an order of magnitude in the last decade.
BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 272d
I'm just an average person but idk where " people are struggling " iscoming from. Everywhere I go all I see is people buying the new iPhone, TV , Switch etc... So yea someone please educate me.