President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
What is trump now? a buddhist? How is a child with 30 dolls suffering? unless they are suffering from too much happiness.
Why isn’t it “rich people will have 1 yacht rather than 4”?
You know why. The same reason Martha Stewart gets jail for insider trading but the ultra rich and politicians do it in the open with no consequences
Yeah, I was making a point.
Because you keep your yachts in the Caribbean so they aren’t subject to tariffs anyway
If he understood anything about his electorate, he would know that it would be a choice of 1 meal a day instead of 3, if the rent is still paid.
Let them eat cake!
Goddamn fucking piece of shit fucking moron
“The american people will suffer but china will suffer more.” So hes hurting us to hurt them? Great job dumbass.
but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.
Even if this were true (which is dubious) this doesn’t make me feel any better. That would simply make this a Pyrrhic victory.
What is the point of any of this? Oh yeah, cruelty is the point.
Nah, raising a shitload of money fast for tax breaks to pay off the billionaires who handed him the presidency is the point. Cruelty is why idiots would vote for this
The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US’s global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don’t have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.
He’s also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.
Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.
So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn’t really know what he’s doing, doesn’t care to learn, just thinking he’s the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.
Except the kids aren’t getting 2 dolls. They’re getting dragged out into the middle of the street half naked in the middle of the night because the brownshirts can’t even read an address correctly when they’re casually disappearing whole families.
Why the fuck is this even reported on. Fuck this whole system, down to the author that thought ‘ya that’s worth making an article’
Don’t buy your kids dolls. Buy them fpv drones.
Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit…
What about the kids who were lucky to get 2 dolls prior to the trade war? Shit outta luck I guess.
Just tell them kids in China have negative dolls. That will make them feel better!
Trump has a plan for them too. The coal mines.
Florida is already making it normal for children to be the future workforce.
They get to BECOME the doll of some rich kid. You woke people really hate freedom.
Reminds me of middle-age tales where when a princeling disobeyed his whipping-boy would get beat.
China is happily selling to the rest of the world, and yes their sales will go down without the US market, but they won’t in sense of the word “suffer”.
2 dolls instead of 30 works out to a reduction of 93.3%! That’s HUGE. If that’s supposed to be his positive spin on things, Americans are truly fucked.
It really shows that he doesn’t care about Americans, he cares about punishing and attacking people that he doesn’t like. That is all that matters to him, and he doesn’t hide that. He doesn’t want to make things better, he wants to make people suffer.
The fact that he has supporters is absolutely unfathomable to me. Then again, those same supporters want to punish the same people he does, so it starts to make sense.
He wants to punish Americans more than probably anyone else. Americans had the nerve to laugh at him when people joked about his hair, or makeup, or physique. Americans did not elect him in 2020. Americans allowed him to be forced out and didnt fight back hard enough when Biden “stole” the election. Americans allowed him to have some minor inconveniences when they put him on trial, raided his house for classified docs or made him take reaponsibility for his actions. Americans are going to pay because he knows nothing other than vengence for percieved slights and Americans allowed them all to happen
Yeah, I’m sure China’s trembling at the mere idea.
Can’t wait to see what happens when China stops buying our debt.
A real “let them eat cake” moment.
That’s the real statement. Instead of 30 dolls it will be 2, but that translates to food supplies, too. Instead of 30 dinners in a month, we’ll only have 2.
In the year after Maduro took over Venezuela, the average citizen lost 40 pounds.
I could stand to lose 40 pounds honestly
I’ve lost 80 in the last 18 months, but it was my choice, not HitlerPig’s.
Supposedly brioche, but yes point stands.
Cause American girls were getting 30 dolls every Christmas.
This guy is such a psychopath that he doesn’t even understand how Christmas gifts work.
Big “How much could a banana cost? $10?” moment
If a dollar is good, then lots of dollars is even better. To him, toys are like currency for kids, so when he wanted to buy a doll for Ivanka or Eric, he’d give them 30 of the same doll, rather than a bunch of different toys.
Jr just wanted his daddy’s love, which doest exist, so he was shit out of luck.
113 American Girl dolls would be expensive as shit though - I think with all the accessories and accoutrements you’re looking at the price of a decent used car. The newer models are also shittier (less history focused, because Mattel lol)
The books though - they went hard. There was an entire series about about an enslaved girl who escaped to the north with her mom (I wanna say Addie?). Felicity, the American Revolution girl, stole a horse and got told what the consequences could have been (like, iirc it’s like “yeah you could have totally been hanged for that stunt.”)
I was too broke for the dolls, but if you have a kid - the books are A-tier children’s historical fiction.
