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.”
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.
…claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion”
They’ve already LOST $11 trillion. What an utter imbecile!!
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.
Can we just elect Camacho? He’s more qualified than whatever the fuck we got now
Americans circa 2025 about to take their economic medicine
“sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something”
Exactly, medicine exists to fix something. What Trump is doing is substance abuse.
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.
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.
Haha. Trumps funny
Even if his tariffs do bring in $1 trillion, that’s not even half the loss his tariffs have cause in just 3 days.
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?
He’s not tolerating squat when it comes to any pain, for ANY of his actions, least of all his tariff fuckery.
Trump will endure precisely zero economic pain since he is rich. He doesn’t have to go through anything. He sits in a literal ivory tower why would he feel bad about anything?
Everybody is thinking way, way too much into this.
If Trump would have to answer a question where he doesn’t know the answer, or would have to admit that people disagree with him, or he feels even mildly challenged, this is considered a personal attack on him. You are trying to get him to admit to not being 100% perfect 100% of the time. And he responds to that by lashing out like a small child, attacking you, making up childish names for you, and insulting you. This is how he has always responded.
This has nothing to do with his thoughts on economic policies or the effects of his tariffs. He doesn’t think far enough ahead to either know or care. This reporter had the audacity to challenge him, and Trump lashed out. That’s all. That’s how he always responds.
So true. You don’t have to dig deep into any of his responses when you criticize anything about him. He will lash out. He’s a child. That’s it.
I can’t understand how more people don’t understand this. There’s no depth to any of this. An immature, ignorant, narrow-minded idiot doing immature, ignorant, narrow-minded things. The media’s sane washing is to blame, I guess, if not the straight propaganda from right wing outlets. But at this point if you’re still giving the benefit of the doubt you’re part of the problem.
