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He is lying. He’s just fucking lying. It wasn’t a “vague answer“. It was a big fat fucking LIE.
Is it a lie if it’s entirely incoherent?
Maybe it’s the “concept of a lie”? Lol.
We think hes trying to lie but hes too far gone to get the words out
He can’t even get through a whole sentence anymore. It’s absurd.
So THAT'S what "the art of the deal" means
Word salad. It's just freeform bullshit coming out of his puckered pie hole.
Being a speech writer for him would be so frustrating. I know there's been skits done about it. Even if you're being paid for it regardless, putting any amount of work into something and then have it be totally derailed every time...
You think he has speech writers? I always thought they just wheel him on stage and let him loose.
I think he has to have something to lead into the topic. Just like LLMs, a prompt to build from, no actual thoughts beginning there.
He's definitely drilled extensively on talking points. His wittering is always a mix of the things Fox & Friends got him riled up about, attacks on people who've contradicted him, and some Quixote-esque attempt at the points he's meant to make that week.
They just read him a chapter from mein kampf before wheeling him out and the general tone of it makes it's way into his otherwise senile rambling.
Since 2015 Japanese translators have had so much trouble figuring out what he's saying. In the first presidency, his boisterous rhetoric filled with exaggerations was hard to put in words that would sound befitting to a leader, and not be mistaken as the translators making fun of him. In more recent years, it's his frequent repetition, primitive words and even more frequent derailing into word salad tangents that he can barely finish a coherent thought that is the challenge for translators.
For years they've pretty much given up and cut it to a 2 sentence summary each time at best. Recent example article in Japanese Recent example video
and not be mistaken as the translators making fun of him.
Anything short of that is sanewashing him and thus a dereliction of duty on the translator's part.
The thing is that it was totally novel and in Japanese news on international affairs especially unprecedented, virtually everything was sanewashed in the past, so it's not surprising that media and diplomatic officials in Japan were shocked and taken aback in the first couple years.
My god that's fucking hilarious. You could not pay me enough to be a translator.
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A trump never pays his debts
THERE ARE NO CHECKS was the right answer.
Nor balances.
Or cakes.
Fucking Luthor.
Someone Left My Cake Out In The Rain
Because he has no intention of sending them. Ever.
Why does anyone think he would?
Surely, this time will be different!
Completely deranged pedophile sociopath, and yet some people still think he's the second coming of christ.
Or the anti-christ, but they're still into it cause its gods will.
His supporters even wear a mark of the beast upon their brow
And he has(had?) a false prophet. His "spiritual advisor"
Because they're one in the same.
We finally got him folks.
How about those Epstein files?
Cause that's not how to trick people and give them nothing.
Lying liar lies again when called out on his latest lie.
Well you see what had happened was, remember that Fuhrer bunker.. er I mean ballroom the pedophile said was to be paid for by donors?
Congratulations, you're all donors!! It's not technically paid by the taxpayers WITH taxpayer money... just the other tax the dumbfucks who voted for this shit fail to understand who pays the tarrifs; hint, you do.
“Because the Democrats can’t do it. Because with them, it’s negative growth. With us, it’s so positive,” Trump said. “So, we’re taking in $21 trillion. No country has ever taken in anywhere near that. It’s four or five times higher than the next one. All because of that beautiful word you and I love more than most others, tariffs.”
There is $167b tariff revenue for first 11 months of fiscal year. 2027 is forecast to bring in $160b. There are legal challenges to those as well. $21T needs 150 years of continuity of his crazy. Not to mention, he's threatened to bring tariff revenue to 0 by eliminating all trade next week after Fed raises interest rates.
The promise costs $1.325T. At 5% interest 10 year bond financing, total 10 year tariff hopeful revenue would still be a $387.5B net loss after then end of his 4th term :P
If "Dems really can't do it", all the more reason to do it alone now just to make sure Americans get rewarded for all the tremendous success/winning he's accomplished. Also, regardless of election results, republicans will have majority at least until January 2027.
How DARE you do math!
Dementia Diaper Don at his finest.
That dumbass has no idea what tarriffs even are. It's a buzz word that has wedged itself intl his pudding brain.
It's The Power of Positive Thinking, rules 1 and 2: Picture yourself succeeding, drown out a negative thought ("Oh no my bullshit bribery idea is unworkable, illegal baloney") with a positive thought ("With them, it's negative growth, with us, it's positive").
We're just seeing that the pattern is more important to him than the quality or coherence of the thoughts involved. He has been just like this since his campaign in 2015, at least. Personally I don't think he seems any more demented than he did ten years ago. Maybe his handlers are letting him have a little more leash, because he's a useful distraction.
I've hated the guy since the first time I laid eyes on him in the late 80s. He's always been a sleazy, no-class, grifting, pedo rapist.