The 80-year-old commander in chief spent more than 10 hours on Sunday posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images on his social media platform. The posts included a depiction of Iran's defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated image of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that read, "Trump is my president."
One AI image appears to show the president sitting in front of several monitors in the White House tracking the stock market with a caption that reads: "I do this for our Country, not myself. I've made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!"
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TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1d
How the hell is that supposed to work? Like, is his financial success supposed to inspire us or fill us with national pride? What the hell do I care if he's made hundreds of billions of dollars on his investments (assuming that's even true)? Fuck his investments. Fuck him.
dhork@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d
He's probably talking about all the equity deals the US government is getting involved in
https://www.cfr.org/articles/washingtons-growing-portfolio-tracking-u-s-government-investments
Remember when Republicans had a cow when part of the Obama administration's bailout of GM involved the US government taking an equity stake in the company (which it has a plan to sell a few years later?) Well, now that Republicans are in charge, they're doing the same thing, in overdrive.
According to that link, it's only 27B total to far. But, of course Trump not only takes credit for it all, but overvalues it by at least 10x....
Hegar@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1d
It's not. Even he doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's just a senile old man giving voice to passing thoughts.
AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d
Almacca@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 22h
It makes sense when you remember that whenever Trump talks about 'America' he's only referring to himself.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 18h
It's only aladeen.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 12 pts · 1d
Sure Grandpa, let's see it on the balance sheets to take a nip out of that $40T debt you helped rack up
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 14h
The National Debt was at $20 Trillion when he took over, it went down under Biden, and now it's up to $40 Billion. Trump DOUNLED the National Debt.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 1 pts · 12h
Would need a source on that one, most show Biden added a big chunk which isn't particularly surprising when you have fallout from a major pandemic to contend with, but Donnie was all full of 'will totally pay it all off no problem'.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h
Yeah I don't know what they are talking about. The last budget surplus was a quarter century ago. (Crazy term to be able to use for 2001) It's all been downhill at different speeds since then.
hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 10h
He started with $27T and ended up with 36T by the end of his term.
A lot of that was COVID spending. COVID did a lot of damage to the economy and the extra spending was meant to stabilize things.
Also, the buying power of the dollar has fallen 20% since 2020.
OFC in Trump’s first term, he took a 19T debt and made it $27T.
$500-$700 billion of the $1.6 T social security surplus collected every year went to defense spending instead, which created a deficit that has been continuously ballooning in order to finance a bloated military state. The program was in a surplus prior to this, and would’ve been viable for many years to come without continuously growing the national debt.
The military spending needs to go. No more than $100 billion for a small homeland defense force. End all foreign wars, close down overseas military bases and end all foreign intervention. We are hurling toward bankruptcy and economic collapse because the rich keep making money off war.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1d
Trump says too much in general.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 12h
Dumocrats? I'll take that name if they take RapePublicans.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
We'll be waiting for him to donate those profits for a long time.
Alexfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
Dear Chat G P T,
Make a picture that has light,
Shoot out of my hands!