Summary
Trump snapped at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he was willing to inflict amid plunging markets triggered by his new tariffs.
Speaking after a weekend at his Florida resort, Trump dismissed speculation he was trying to crash the market, claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion” and spur U.S. manufacturing.
When asked about a pain threshold for Americans, he called the question “so stupid,” arguing economic “medicine” was necessary to reverse decades of “stupid leadership.”
He insisted the strategy would make the U.S. “solid and strong again.”
Stupid questions for stupid people.
It’s amazing how confident the truly stupid are.
he’s totally ok that every vulnerable has to eat leather boots to make it through a depression.
“libs were pwned”
…claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion”
They’ve already LOST $11 trillion. What an utter imbecile!!
So it’ll just take 11 years to even out.
Edit: Just double checked, it’s 1 trillion in the “next year or so”. So x >= 11 years :(
tRump maths…lol.
In fairness to Trump, he has never, ever experienced the consequences of his actions. Bankrupt? Didn’t put a dent in his life since his father and banks kept the money flowing to him regardless, more than once. Rapist? No jail time. Fraudster? No jail, not sure that any fines have even been paid. So why would he think, when nothing bad happens to him and he can still golf the weekend away, that anything bad will happen to all the people losing their jobs, their investments, their retirement, their homes? Why don’t they all have rich fathers and sycophantic bankers to bail them out? At very least they should have Russian mafia backers like he does, that make it look like he’s a billionaire, even if it really is billions in debt to them.
I agree that he wouldn’t consider the consequences, but you’re mistaken if you think he has given even a single thought to the plight of the people his tariffs are impacting - his narcissism wouldn’t allow the thought to even form in his orange head.
Economic Medicine? This shit must have been economics course at the fucking failed Trump University.
its called a word salad, and the WEAVE.
He will tolerate none for himself.
The rest of us can get fucked. STFU about the price of eggs, right? He’s no longer president. He’s gone full dictator. This is all about him.
It was always all about him. The election was the only way he was staying out of prison and the campaign was lie after lie after lie, telling his moron supporters what they wanted to hear, in order to secure their vote. He doesn’t give a shit about those people once they’ve posted their ballot.
This rhetoric seems similar to that used by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics. They applied ‘economic therapy’ to left-leaning economies in the late 1900s which involved rapid privatization of nationally owned industries. Negatively affected many otherwise healthy countries including England, Russia and Chilie.
The Shock Doctrine does a round robin of these events; highly recommended.
Project 2025 is about privatizing branches of government while citizens are too busy dealing with the fallout of economic collapse.
They’re seriously going to privatize the weather service and social security if we do not continue to take to the streets.
Russia was not healthy when it applied shock therapy. The Soviet Union was collapsing, massive political instability in Moscow, all sorts of countries moving out of the Russian sphere of influence, the first Chechen war started and so forth. It was fairly obvious that big decision had to be made, but unfortunatly Russia choose poorly.
Americans circa 2025 about to take their economic medicine
sally has to say goodbye to puppy. weekly rations and all.
“sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something”
Exactly, medicine exists to fix something. What Trump is doing is substance abuse.
Can we just elect Camacho? He’s more qualified than whatever the fuck we got now
No can do, Camacho was black. And we can’t have another black president. /s
Even if his tariffs do bring in $1 trillion, that’s not even half the loss his tariffs have cause in just 3 days.
Donald doesn’t have to tolerate any pain. He’s a billionaire. Billionaire’s way of life will still be unbelievably fabulous. It’s us that suffer at their expense.
He’s a billionaire.
Allegedly. His inability to pay some of the judgments against him calls that into question, e.g. the E. Jean Carrol suit. If nothing else, he definitely has a billionaire mindset.
Trump Media and the Trumpcoin crypto scam have, sadly, probably put his net worth back up high enough for him to actually be able to truthfully call himself a billionaire again. He just doesn’t pay his court judgements because what are they gonna do about it if he doesn’t? Take him to court again? His whole strategy is to make plaintiffs go broke trying to collect from him, which is why he has it out for all the law firms working pro bono against him right now.
tRump always speaks in a clear, concise, fact based, evidence based, and in a verifiable manner. He uses proof such as “medicine,” “stupid,” “someone said,” “I heard,” “everyone is saying.” “Economic medicine,” what is that?
Absolutely, and what I like best about him is his trustworthiness and respect for women.
He’s also a genius businessman who will run our country like his businesses, which will be great and lead to widespread prosperity.
A special kind of genius that can bankrupt a casino multiple times. How do you fuck up a license to print money?
Four Casinos
And not permitted by the gaming commission to get another license.
