Rally-style series of boasts does not include much in the way of plans to address affordability crisis
Donald Trump on Wednesday used a nationally-televised address to deliver a campaign-style rant in which he blamed his predecessor for the economic woes Americans are feeling a year into his presidency while offering little in the way of proposals to address the higher prices caused in large part by the massive tariffs he has placed on almost all American imports.
Speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Trump opened by claiming to have “inherited a mess” that he was now “fixing.”
What followed was a partisan rant indistinguishable from the signature rallies that have been the centerpiece of his political movement, in which he rattled off a list of grievances while blaming his predecessor for the state of the country nearly a full year after he took the oath of office.
Yeah, no. Biden came in and (somewhat) fixed your first shitshow, then your pettiness drove you to tear it down even faster this time. I hope the approval rating continues to fall, even among the MAGA faithful. I hope no one gives a fuck about him by the time he’s out of office.
I hope he’s dragged kicking and screaming from that office by people wearing his name on their forehead.
Without having listened to his speech…did he happen to mention anything that he’s done to “fix” the nation? Because from out here, it kind of looks like everything he’s doing, is just making things worse.
Just bear in mind that whenever Trump refers to ‘America’ or ‘the nation’ he’s only referring to himself. Everything makes much more sense when you remember that.
I have felt this for a long time, going back to his first term when he kept saying/nearly saying ‘company’ instead of ‘country’. This and every other disconnected pile of shit out of his mouth is so clearly him bragging about himself and his self perceived accomplishments. Sure, yeah life is great and the economy is booming if you’re a white cis hetero billionaire.
He banned food coloring… I think. And got more Americans to stop blindly following the DNC. Besides that… Not much.
Let’s now downplay the food coloring thing. We’ve allowed food dyes that have been banned in the rest of the developed world because of how bad they are to human health.
Doesn’t really fix any of the other horrible things going on, but it’s good.it finally happened
The DNC did nothing wrong and Bernie told you to vote for Harris.
The problem is you and every other dumbass voter “sticking it to the man” instead of doing what needed to be done.
You think you’re demonstrating loyalty to Bernie sinking the Democrats. Bernie fucking hates you. You set back the policies he care about by decades.
That’s why he was put in: to sabotage the economy, US soft power, and alliances. And who benefits? Putin, who’d be in even more rapidly accelerating free-fall without all of Trump’s help.
He claimed that all these tariffs will cause just a ton of companies to build big factories all of a sudden next year.
He claimed that getting all those Hispanics out will mean more jobs and houses for the rest.
Basically that everything they’ve done is right, and depending on which minute he is speaking the economy is already great and everyone is lying about it or it’s bad but only because of Biden but in 2026 everything he did will finally work.
They’ve evidently already made the call that millions of people losing healthcare is a small enough percentage to not worry about. I’ve been presuming that they would pull off a seemingly better circumstance by temporarily unwinding their worst policies, but they may be actually true believers…
Haven’t you seen? He’s rounding up all the foreigners, anyone else he deems “other”, and picking a fight with Venezuela. What more could you possibly want him to do?
Gut international aid?
Shut down the education department?
Remove science from the centre for disease control?
Use the media regulator to pressure and shut down dissenting voices?
Threaten universities?
Deploy troops on the streets?
He’s doing these things already. America will be great again™ in no time!
/s
In about two weeks!
He made like 3 things less expensive [to the corporations importing them] by removing the tariffs he added.
So… progress?
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. <-- you are here
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.It would definitely be believable to have Pedonald blame the kids he raped for making them doing it. Or Biden/Obama/Clinton.
Glad he didn’t announce anything heinous, just the usual BS. Biden must be rolling over in his grave.
You got me there I was like “woah did Biden die and I completely missed it?”
You and him both
Tl;dr of everything:
Hands… So small…
I thought he was going to fix the economy on ‘day one’. [looks at watch]
Juiced up President rather vent on TV than truth social because shit hits the fan in two days, like the world has never seen before.
That’s basically what I got from this.
What’s happening in two days?
Epstein files are slated to be released
I know that’s the deadline, but are they actually doing it? I’ve been assuming they’ll declare some bs on why it’s not viable to do so, hoping that somehow everyone has gotten over it after the bill passed.
Who fucking knows at this point. I’m not certain what the Trump admin can do exactly to stop it. And with the very anxiety-driven ranting last night it seems like they don’t have a plan in hand.
Did he release the Epstein files?
The rot sent in when Trump got into office. The data shows that clearly. The Dems should be highlighting all his weak excuses and low-effort attempts at blame-shifting. Hang this crap economy right around Trump’s neck where it belongs.
And remember that, excluding the AI bubble, there has been essentially no economic growth at all lately. Well, 0.1%.
They are doing that, all the time. You choose not to listen.
Most corporatist/centrist Dems stand to benefit from the current status-quo and aren’t incentivised to support any radical shakeups.
This is causing the increasingly nihilistic populace (younger millennials and Gen Z) to flock to the extremes of the political spectrum. They rushed to Trump because he promised to improve their lot in life, and now they’re realising it was all a lie. They’re the cause for the 10+ point swings we’ve seen in the special and off-year elections thus far.
However, unless progressives are able to challenge and unseat existing Dems in sufficient numbers to be able to put forward a strong change in policy - we are only going to witness yet another exodus of support from the party towards the next GOP firebrand making false promises.
It takes longer to mend something than it does to break it, and I fear it will take 3-4 strong Dem presidential terms to undo the damage of the two Trump presidencies, let alone set the nation on a path towards prosperity.
Fucking bullshit buzzwords…exactly why we have Trump.
Needlessly dividing the party ensuring the issue you pretend to care about will continue to worsen.
Support among those younger voters for Trump has plummeted, maybe you shouldn’t have put so much effort in pushing your “both sides” propaganda, encouraging their nihilism.
Stop carrying water for the DNC, they don’t deserve it.
You have Trump (both times) because the vast majority of the population were unhappy with their circumstances, and the trajectory it was on.
How is it dividing the party to propose they follow their own bylaws and face a suits or primary challenge? Why is it their divine right to run unopposed, what - just because they’re incumbent septuagenarians who’ve gotten ungodly wealthy off insider trading and kick-backs from corporate lobbyists?
Make no mistake, the Dems are on track to win big in the mid-terms and in the 2028 election. But with feckless figures like Schumer and Jefferies at the helm, they are all but guaranteed to squander this once in a generation opportunity to make a fundamental change in the direction of the nation.
And when they inevitably drop the ball, young voters will seesaw back away from the Dems just as quickly as they did from Trump, and Biden before him.
Without a strong, progressive solution towards income, healthcare and housing affordability for the bottom 80%, and soon - America will not be able to pull itself out of the death-spiral it currently finds itself in.
More of the same failed Liberal policies simply won’t suffice in this day and age, and you are a gullible fool if you still think that it is.
“Who shit my pants!?!”
- some orange tinted pedophile
Well I can’t even listen to the motherfucker so thank you for the sum up, about what I figured. I can’t believe he made a national address to say that he wasn’t the one who farted and trying to blame it on the dog. Fucking hell.
That’s a 10/10 headline, no notes
His last chance to address his national underlings with more lies until tomorrow when the Epstein files are either released or hidden by the DOJ. I fear for what kind of distraction he will use once the compost finally hits the Cuisinart.
I thought everything was great and the affordability issue was a democratic hoax?
Did he say anything of actual consequence or was it just an old man venting?
Think about all the bingo “buzz words” and then say bingo. He said everything from Biden to the fuckin kitchen sink.
Oh and he said Bitcoin for the troops or something like that, as known as a “bribe”.
He said he’s freaking out a bit about being exposed as a pedo, the constant moaning about bankrupting America is really irritating him, that he doesn’t understand how Americans can be so stupid but still somehow understand that he’s doing a shit job.
