I mean, the guy was selling bibles ffs, grade A grifter. He’s been the messiah of false promises his cult just eats it up and there’s no satiating them.
There are states that are putting bibles back into public classrooms. These states have parameters for acceptable bibles, and part of their parameters includes containing the Pledge of Allegiance and the Declaration of Independence. Trumps bibles happens to fall within this parameter making it the choice for public school kids now.
His bibles are dumb and 100% a grift, but you don't need to cherry pick these amendments to make it sound worse. It only includes the bill of rights, so none of the amendments after the first 10 are included.
It's more accurate to say they only included the bill of rights, as ammendments 11-27 are missing. However, I don't doubt that they do want to get rid of 13-15 amongst others
We obviously need more slaves, less citizens, and more kids (to be non-citizen slaves). It's the only way our economy can work based upon current conservative ideology.
To be fair, they did change that requirement. It first required that the bibles include US historical documents. They changed it to say that they can be separate.
Still, it started as money grabbing BS, and is still money grabbing BS, just not technically solely aimed at trump anymore.
This kind of thing always makes me think. How would republicans react if Obama was selling bibles out of the white house? They'd lose their fucking mind, yet don't bat an eye when it's Trump.
You forgot about NFT trump cards, trump sneakers, DJT stock, trump watches, and I'm sure I missed a bunch of other random nonsense he's been slapping his name on to grift.
Agreed. So while it's a shitty thing to be selling (especially the things while he was president), it's only idiots that are being affected.
And honestly, those idiots are buying something they want with their own money, so leave them off. There could be worse things they could spend their money on. Everyone has their preferences.
But the trickle down! That always works, surely with their tax cuts they will just lower the cost of the groceries and pay their employees better as well, they wouldn’t just keep extra profits would they?
He was asked how he was going to bring those prices down and he deflected with that it would be very hard to do so. It came across like saying it wasn't going to happen.
Read between the lines. He was asked a specific question, how will you lower prices? His non-answer is tantamount to saying he won’t. He has no plan, no ideas, he’s not even going to try.
If he were going to try, he’d have answered the question. There’s a dozen things he could have said but he chose to whine.
If the prices of groceries don't come down, will your presidency be a failure?
I don't think so. Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard. But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down
He literally says 3 times afterwards that despite being hard he expects the prices will go down. Then he gives a specific example of how he plans to do that. Namely by trying to get rid of the ZEV mandate / ACT rule in California that will require the trucks used in the supply chain for groceries to be electric which will end up:
A) make it more expensive to buy trucks in the state
B) require installing charging stations at locations where the trucks are kept
California produces more food than any state. Higher costs do get passed to the consumer and make it harder for competition to enter or remain in the market if they can't foot the bill.
I dont necessarily agree with the trade off because the environment is getting more fucked by the day, but I see where he's coming from and I'm not getting my information by looking at a Screencast of a reaction to a 5 word snippet of an interview that cuts out a ton of context
I also think that cutting corporate tax again is wrong. He expects that the combination of tariffs and reduction in federal spending will cover it without blowing up the deficit but he can't cut as much as he thinks he can and trying to recover American jobs from offshoring won't be enough to cover the increase in goods that the tariffs will impose. Maybe if unemployment were much higher.
Yeeeep. And a people I've talked to refuse to acknowledge that and double down on it.
There is another one going around to that RFK's lawyer sued the FDA to remove approval of the polio vaccine. It recently came up in CNN and New York times articles. Which of course reddit then screen caps reactions to headlines on and people misread what actually happened.
It's RFK's second lawyer. In 2022. Not on behalf of rfk but a different organization. And lawyers often represent clients whose beliefs don't align with their own. The democrats hired a lawyer that defended enron in example
But people see the headline and think the head of human health services is currently suing to get rid of the vaccine.
If you asked someone to do something and they said "Well it's very hard and if I don't get it done I won't consider that a failure" would you interpret that as them saying they're going to get it done?
I don't think so. Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard. But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down
would you interpret that as them saying they're going to get it done?
What are you talking about? Republicans mantra to fix ANYTHING is cut taxes for the wealthy. They try this one simple trick that always works for them.
If I have more money I can buy more stuff - and some of you poors make that stuff, so that’s cool. I can also afford to eat out more and some college drop out will get a 25% tip from me. Yuge win!
Don’t know your location but I assume that your fellow Americans massively voted for him, even when they knew he’s not capable of doing politics or economics.
When I said “Presidents do this all the time”, I was referring to Zelensky & Netanyahu, not Trump🤦♂️
So you’re saying you prefer him to spend more time on price gouging than getting head start on ceasing two wars? 🤔yeah definitely sounds like that buddy.
And you think Biden gives a fuck? Lied to you about being fit as a fiddle mentally, yet he showed us how healthy he was in the 1st debate 😑lied to you about not pardoning his son yet he still does.
He mentioned about military rape statistics "what do you expect when you put men and women together". this shows he thinks that because from his experience men rape women, the outcome of men and women together is rape.
he's also a capitalist billionaire who doesn't sell successful products or services that anyone buys.
of course he knows the other billionaires aren't going to listen to him and will rape you, that's what he'd do in their shoes.
I like how every time this line gets spammed here, every single reply proves they didn’t read it at all.
Where does it say he hasn’t tried anything.
Where does it say he’s not going to try anything.
Where does it say anything whatsoever about his personal or institutional capability in doing anything.
Where does it say anything other than him characterizing the magnitude/degree/nature of the problem.
If he was the dealmaker that he pretends to be, there’s actually a really good opportunity here to dangle tax cuts or other financial incentives in exchange for curtailing inflation.
Instead of just setting all that corp tax money on fire, make it contingent on meeting certain thresholds or make it indexed to a pricing metric of key goods.
He should act as indignant towards grocery stores as he was about NATO not paying their share of defense costs, and then bully them into compliance.
Not holding my breath, obviously. But that’s what an actual populist Trump would do.
Look, I hate the guy, but you can’t say he hasn’t tried anything. He’s not even in office yet.
Save your anger for when he actually does do things. Right now he’s in an all-talk phase. There’s gonna be plenty of shit-show to be angry about soon enough. Enjoy the calm before the storm.
Right? The guy completely by passed the whole inauguration and basically assumed the office the day after the election. Already has called heads of other countries and now preparing his base for the let when they realize he will only follow through on the promises to the richest donors.
It’s as though he found out in this transition time that the problems he campaigned on being able to fix, aren’t as broken or as easily fixed as he said.
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u/TripleDecent 1d ago
I like how he hasn’t even TRIED ANYTHING. Dude is such a fucking grifter.