President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked the stock market on purpose.The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office, where he was asked about year-over-year inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2 percent last mo...
  • Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish
    111·
    5 months ago

    “No, I love it – the numbers were great,” Trump said. “You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now, something you didn’t know. You know, we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil, nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now we took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out, that’s why oil is $85 a barrel.”

    This is an all-time Trump quote. A masterclass in narcissistic dementia rambling. Someone put it on a pillow.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    5·
    5 months ago
    • That didn’t happen.
    • And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
    • And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
    • And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    • And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
    • And if I did, you deserved it. <-

    We got here on this subject a lot quicker than I expected honestly.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Yes. Yes he is this stupid. Once you get over the incredulity that nobody could be like this, just skip to the end and know that a self serving, idiot narcissist can do this and worse.

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Before the election: Biden inflation! Biden inflation! LOOK AT THESE EGG PRICES!! Vote Trump to fix the inflation! Inflation bad!

    Now: Inflation good. I love inflation. I did it on purpose.

    MAGA: baaa baaa!

    • bradinutah@thelemmy.club
      2·
      5 months ago

      Inflation is one of those big words, kinda like ‘economist’ or ‘groceries.’ When you’re a MAGA, how can you be expected to know these things?

  • o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.worksFrançais
    4·
    5 months ago

    He also raped and killed kids and their mothers on purpose. He loves fucking kids, as stated in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES ™.

    It’s a strategy only great minds like his can grasp.

    • HumanBeing@mastodon.social
      0·
      5 months ago

      @MajinBlayze @tacoplease If I heard or read that, I’ve forgotten. However, I’ve been following the economy for a long time (parent was economist). I’ve been waiting for the dollar to be trashed by the evil out there and turned into rubles. Can’t have a strong dollar when democracy is being killed off.

      • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
        0·
        5 months ago

        Technically I’ve overstated it a bit, the more correct framing is that a major contributor of Trump’s economic policy, Stephen Miran, also wrote a paper called “a user’s guide to restructuring the global trading system” which advocates and provides guidance for removing the dollar as the primary reserve currency of the world.

        But that seems like a distinction without a difference to me.

        I don’t think that that necessarily means we’ll see the ruble in it’s place though.

        • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
          0·
          5 months ago

          What’s you idea behind how the Federal Reserve came to be, what it is, and how that might differ from how it’s perceived? Anything? — just curious

            • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
              0·
              5 months ago

              I’ve formed my own opinions. I was more or less curious how ours might diverge. Appreciate the response nonetheless.

              • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
                0·
                5 months ago

                I’m not going to stumble through my limited knowledge about the entirety of the history of the fed to see if it happens to overlap with whatever you’re getting at. If you have a point, make it.

  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    I’m 5 months behind on my podcasts so I’m now listening to all the coverage and analysis of the Maduro kidnapping. Everybody was saying that with how cheap oil is, it doesn’t make sense to try to take Venezuelan oil which is heavy and requires a lot of refinement. In that context shutting down the Strait of Hormuz makes perfect sense.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      1·
      5 months ago

      I also listen to a lot of politics and it amazes me to this day the consensus is not he’s a fucking idiot but in the context of he is Putin’s puppet and the goal is to destroy America and the Western Alliance he’s doing what he’s meant to do.

      The problem is very smart people like Dr. Janice Stein are quick to say there’s sure as shit smoke but we don’t factually know what the deal is with Trump and Putin but we all know something is there

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

        One can be a fucking idiot and Putler’s lapdog.

        Saying “we don’t know for a fact he’s working for the Russians” is just willful ignorance.

        The aforementioned claims by Shvets, which were also a significant basis for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, were also backed by Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, and Sergei Zhyrnov, an ex-KGB officer living in France.[26] Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:

        I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    Now just imagine if Biden did or said this. Or Obama, or Hilary. The right would have a full on meltdown and a J6 everyday.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’ve been thinking this basically the whole time with the second administration. It’s the most conspiracy oriented I’ve ever been, but I genuinely think there is a non zero chance that the entire goal of this administration has been to crash the dollar and world economy to force the globe into a position where digital currencies take over nation state derived currency as the foundation of global markets. I’d say I’m 5-10% confident this is the case, which is very high.

    That their goal is to destabilize not just the world, but the very concept of nation-states to be replaced with a corporate/privately owned concept of a nation state or state level actor.

    I know there are specific conspiratorial threads on this concept but I e intentionally avoided looking into those. I think there is ample evidence at the surface only to have this kind of suspicion.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Get ready for all the magamushferbrainz to start saying how inflation is good for us and they looooove high gas prices.

    He’s under 30% approval? Just who are the remaining 20-some percent of people that think he’s doing good on the economy?

    Look, I get why the centimillionaires, billionaires, and centibillionaires would support Republican policies. They stand to make buckets more.

    But if you are not in that stratosphere, why would you think he’s doing you any favors?