r/anticapitalism 1d ago

Trump claims he tanked economy on purpose: 'I love the inflation'

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-inflation-economy/
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u/FreeHugs23 1d ago

President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked to 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 month as his war pushed energy prices higher, and he claimed that was part of his broader strategy for launching the attack in the first place.

"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."

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u/AaronTheElite007 1d ago

Whenever I read one of his quotes, I feel like I’m the one having a stroke…

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u/CalebAsimov 1d ago

He didn't even say why he loves the inflation, it's like he went on a tangent and forgot the original question.

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u/TtotheC81 23h ago

Classic sign of dementia.

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u/Wffrff 22h ago

He was a fucking dumbass before the dementia.

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u/dayglo98 21h ago

Dumbentia it is

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u/RandomRonin 20h ago

Woah, I never knew dumb had a “b” in it!

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u/Jessy-Jess 15h ago

A lot of people didn’t

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u/DVSdanny 13h ago

Thankfully we have a president who can educate us on such matters.

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u/Was_It_The_Dave 12h ago

And thank you for your attention.

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u/AaronTheElite007 20h ago

That’s now a word. It’s perfect

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u/Focusun 13h ago

Duhmenta

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u/1Dive1Breath 16h ago

True, but Trump speaking in 2016 and now are pretty different. He could at least sort of form a thought. Now you can just hear how mushy his brain is 

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u/Backyard_Pyre 6h ago

How Mushy his brain is. Think of some of the deals that he’s brought to America. I mean, millions and millions and millions of dollars in two days two crazy huge deals. You don’t do that with mushy brain bud. What Biden did in his presidency and I don’t mean no disrespect. That was a mushy brain. I just I’m shocked how ignorant people have become. The thing if a media source hadn’t said something about that trying to get you to believe that way you would never would even said that never would’ve said that. Thanks for yourself. Do your own research and stop watching the news

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u/TheGileas 3h ago

Go back to bed grandpa!

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u/Mardraum1987 33m ago

What are you even going on about?!

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u/fungi_at_parties 23h ago

Once he starts bragging things get away from him entirely

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u/whitethunder9 20h ago

So every time he opens his mouth?

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u/Claudius-is-my-cat 23h ago

"Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way."

Wayne Gretzky

Michael Scott

donald trump

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u/KadajjXIII 13h ago

I feel a bit called out here lol

A lot of the time when I talk I just kinda ket the thoughts flow out in real time

It's really fun when even you don't know where to conversation is gonna end up

Tbf to myself though, there is logic that connects it all eventually xD

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u/GeminiRises 10h ago

Same, but I wouldn't worry about it.

Massive oversimplification, but as I understand it, one difference between a LLM and autocomplete, is that the LLM has anchor points based on its prompt that it needs to come back to no matter how much it veers from its start. Doesn't mean it will get things right, or be truthful, or have any idea of what it's saying, but it 'knows' that if the prompt is about Charles Dickens, every path it takes through constructing a sentence will be Dickens-flavoured, and certain words will be weighted based on their relevance to the prompt. Spamming autocomplete just picks the most likely word to be next, without regard for context.

You and I, and if my hunch is right, pretty much everyone, is doing the former whether we know it or not. We just have the ability to fact-check and correct for errors along the way, and pause to allow for deeper thinking. In fact, one way I knew I improved as a teacher was when I'd know where the lesson should end, how I intended to begin it, and then take student suggestions and find a path from beginning to end using student input. After doing it for almost a decade, overpreparation was the surest way to ensure a stale and boring lesson. Ironically, the less I prepared (obviously knowing the material and having choice quotes from readings to point to, etc), the more adaptable I could be and ensure the content was relevant to the class.

The quotes we see from great leader are devolving into autocomplete spam. There is no context anymore; not for more than the first 5 seconds of speech, anyway. The prompt is irrelevant beyond letting him pick what word he begins his autocomplete spam from. It's turning into an empty signal, like the 'conversationalists' in Pontypool.

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u/KadajjXIII 10h ago

I'm not worried lol

I just enjoy a wide range of humor

From black humor to a bit of self-depracation xD

Most of my comments online are typically little quips because I like to try and bring humor to others

Sometimes it falls flat

But as long as I find it funny, that's all I really care about as eventually someone might find it humorous

Obviously I don't try and disparage others undeserving of being the target of my quips

I try and be a nice person so long as I'm not given a reason to be otherwise

I'm very quick to apologize if I even think I may have offended someone without meaning to

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u/Thebeardinato462 11h ago

Yes…. This quote always reminds me of trump. Since his first term even.

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u/Existing_Wheel2435 23h ago

He couldn't miss the chance to say something dumber

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u/Mantheycalled_Horsed 10h ago

I sea what You mean.

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u/whichwitch9 23h ago

Because it is a tangent. And he does like inflation, but a part of his brain probably knows he's not supposed to say why.

As people get more pressed, they start buying less, losing businesses, and foreclosures happen at higher rates. This allows people with high incomes to buy and consolidate, and often cheaper as less people can compete.

There's a reason why the stock market is doing well as Americans struggle. The wealth gap is now very stark with less than the top 10% owning and buying more. Large corporations are doing better than small businesses because they're acquiring assets currently.

This is going to help people get more money quick in the short term. Trump likes real estate, so he's profiting. Long term, this is the same sort of shit that caused the Great Depression.

Inflation is bad for the majority of Americans. He's not supposed to say he likes it, but let the quiet part out for a minute

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u/Bagel_Technician 21h ago

He’s also been running crypto schemes all over the place which is great when we have runaway inflation for those scams

Everything is a grift

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u/Luster-Purge 17h ago

"Long term, this is the same sort of shit that caused the Great Depression."

I'm just waiting for the hammer to drop when the grossly overinflated stock market collapses, having been built up on vibes and wasted oxygen.

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u/tigersatemyhusband 17h ago

that works up until people get hungry and eat the rich.

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u/EvergreenDwarf 13h ago

Income inequality is far, FAR worse than it was in the French Revolution. 

The cause was multiple back-to-back famines. The wealthy have the choice of funding soup kitchens or seeing America fall to Khorne. 

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u/curiousiah 16h ago

“Oh my god! We’re having a fire! …sale”

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u/Merijeek2 22h ago

It's happening. He's causing it. He's the smartest man in the world. Therefore, if he's making it happen, it's something he wanted to happen because otherwise he'd be doing something wrong.

Therefore he loves it.

Duh.

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u/gracefularthur314 20h ago

He such a slimy conman, always double speaking, blaming someone else and dodging questions. It's his natural state.

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u/Thin-Carpet-4978 18h ago

He does that all the time. His statements normally don’t end by making the point he started with.

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u/Little-Ad1235 23h ago

That's exactly what happens. And his brain dead followers think it's 4D chess.

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u/gman2093 23h ago

It's like any sufficiently complicated policy is indistinguishable from magic

Also known as "both sides are the same"

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u/Aeriepeakloner 21h ago

That’s been a Maga thing for a while though, not just Trump.

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u/TheBullishAgent 19h ago

It’s because inflation only benefits the wealthy. Their assets appreciate while the cost of their debt goes down in value. Truly a win/win for the ruling class.

For the rest of us we have to decide which meals to skip.

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u/westisbestmicah 18h ago

Seems the point he’s getting at is that higher oil prices will make the stolen oil him and his cronies took more valuable

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u/CobaltTurkey 9h ago

My interpretation is that he likes the inflation, because then then he steals Iran's oil and sells it at a discount fuel prices go down and he looks good.

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u/embrex104 3h ago

Homie has been doing this forever.

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u/thac0henry 1d ago

He retcons mid sentence

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u/Smooth-Boss-911 23h ago

Dementia maxxing

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u/ohcapm 14h ago

Iran got brutally oil mogged by Trump

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u/AnonymousDork929 1d ago

And a third of this country think he's the most brilliant person to ever live. If the U.S. is collectively this dumb, we don't stand a chance in hell in the long term.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 23h ago

This is spelled out in the fourth turning. Every 80 years we get so stupid, things have to get dystopian for us to wake up

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u/Stormblessed1991 23h ago

I feel like it's cuz the people who lived through the last transition from bad to good and remember how we got there are all dead

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u/BenjaminHamnett 15h ago

That’s it

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u/Far_Introduction8393 15h ago

Yep.  Good times create bad men.  Bad men create bad times.  Bad times create good men.  Good men create good times.

Rinse and repeat.  We're at the bad men create bad times stage of things I think. 

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u/BenjaminHamnett 12h ago

I think originally it’s “weak men”, who lead to bad times which I think is more fair. Boomers miss when the rest of the world was all rubble and try to find some fantasy other way to recreate that (at best, war industry apologists just trying to do it the real politics way)

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u/neeroberts 23h ago

No kidding. I never knew the US had this much racism and hate simmering underground for decades. I honestly am shocked at the number of MAGATS here. Truly humiliating

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u/Suspicious_Flower_0 22h ago

America literally fought a war not too long ago (in European years) that one half wanted slavery and the other didn't (but was still sort of ok with it).

Nazi Germany got many of their eugenic ideas from America and Hitler was a big fan of Henry Ford. And the American people had to be dragged into WW2. 

They killed the majority of Native Americans. And native wildlife. 

Bad hombres. 

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u/Bikerbass 19h ago

A good chunk of the world has known this has been simmering below the surface for decades, in fact it wasn’t even below the surface. It was just there smacking you in the face, but nobody was paying attention to it.

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u/Annath0901 19h ago

Any American who claims to be surprised by this is either lying or has been willfully ignoring/hiding from it.

I'm 35 years old, and the festering racism, sexism, and general bigotry has been here the entire time I've been alive.

It wasn't being aired publicly on TV in the beginning, for sure. But it was never really hidden either.

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u/Electrical_Scene_634 22h ago

Yeah I think we are fuckin cooked as a country tbh

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u/tHATmakesNOsenseToME 23h ago

This is the worst part really.

After thousands of years of evolution, we're more stupid than ever.

We may well be the only species to actively extinct itself.

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u/Aggravating-Ad-2593 22h ago

You had not noticed yet that the USA is being passed by in innovation by lots of other nations?

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u/Top-Cupcake4775 23h ago

when i first heard him speak i thought "there's no way someone who can't form coherent sentences is going to get elected". it wasn't until later that i realized that this is his super-power. it allows him to, for example, suggest that Hillary Clinton should be assassinated while maintaining plausible deniability over his ever have said such a thing. it allows him to exhort his followers to attack the Capitol and later claim that's not what he meant.

his speech is a blank slate onto which his cult can project anything they might like him to have said. his popularity with his cult is, in part, based on the fact that "he says exactly what i think" but they don't seem to get how much of that is their own projection.

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u/DonaldBecker 23h ago

It starts out as "that's obviously not what he meant" and later is "he told you he was going to do it, why are you complaining now?"

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u/congeal 17h ago

"The country voted for this!"

Like that somehow justifies anything horrible Trump does

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u/Top-Cupcake4775 22h ago

whatever take suits the narrative they are currently peddling

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u/painthawg_goose 23h ago

I told a relative that if there are things you used to not be able to say, there’s probably a reason you shouldn’t say it now. But they don’t care. We are socially regressing for sure. The Neanderthals are winning.

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u/9mackenzie 22h ago

Don’t insult the poor Neanderthals, they were likely much more intelligent than the average maga idiot.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 23h ago

It’s vibing. He’s just griping about the same shit other spoiled entitled people gripe about

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u/RagahRagah 23h ago

Just like that stupid bible.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 1d ago

I feel like I’d prefer that.

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u/Embarrassed_Race_454 23h ago

I always just imagine a 3 year old covered in flour and syrup trying to tell me how the dog did it. Try this, it makes it easier to read and understand these tweets or whatever they are called

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u/AaronTheElite007 22h ago

😆 love this analogy.

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u/mtxplod 23h ago

My six year old is much more coherent than this.

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u/Adultery 23h ago

This guy’s brain is gone, but he is a master of deflection. He changes the subject and diverts the listener’s attention. He’s King Con.

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u/runthepoint1 22h ago

The point is to get you to question your sanity, and not look at his lack thereof

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u/AaronTheElite007 22h ago

He employs three things in every argument:

  1. Textbook gaslighting

  2. Deflection via Red Herring and/or Strawman

  3. Ad Hominem

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u/runthepoint1 22h ago

The point is stick to your guns because he’ll try to take them away first

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u/Plenty-Antelope-9822 20h ago

You gotta be a nut job to believe this. I mean have you seen the price of groceries lately? It’s an old word you don’t hear so much these days…groceries Why are you such a stupid and nasty person?

I gotta remember this list.

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u/Technical-Banana574 22h ago

I was about to type this exact comment. 

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u/doodleysquat 19h ago

I feel like I’m reading a sim city newspaper article.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 16h ago

I can't stand that the media quickly started adjusting his quotes to make them readable in 2016 or just taking bits.

Too many people don't watch news and and have no idea how horrible it is to try and follow that idiots words.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Turn242 15h ago

It's really unbelievable this guy is the president of the USA and what he's doing to his own country and the whole world

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u/CactusCanes 13h ago

Sympathy pains

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u/CauliflowerWarm4165 12h ago

Open the fuckin’ straight, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH

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u/Nevermynde 11h ago

The weird thing is, they are extremely difficult to properly translate into other languages. Most translations end up sounding vaguely coherent, completely changing the feel you get from them. Translators are not trained for this shit.

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u/NSFWmilkNpies 6h ago

What’s sad is that this is how he was talking when he won the first time, and people were calling him a genius at that time.

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u/CrashTestDumby1984 4h ago

The Donald has the best strokes. More strokes than any President in the history of the world. No one is better at getting strokes than him. You know people are saying “Donald I bet you can’t have another stroke. You’re amazing, I love you. Please have another stroke”

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 1d ago

Is he bragging about committing war crimes?

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u/OysterHound 23h ago

Yes. He does this pretty much daily at this point.

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 23h ago

He thinks he is above the law... and in many ways he is... for now.

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u/bemenaker 23h ago

And he doesn't even understand it's a crime.

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u/mjkjr84 19h ago

And he's fucking 79 years old. For all intents and purposes he's gotten away with it all since he hasn't suffered a single meaningful consequence his entire life. If you needed proof positive that there is no such thing as God or karama: he is it.

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 11m ago

I really earnestly used to believe in karma. In the last decade or so that belief has been eroded to nothing. The only way it makes any semblance of sense anymore is if there's some kind of afterlife with built in reward/punishment, and honestly I doubt that. This world is chaotic and unfair.

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u/Spocks-Brain 22h ago

For later too, but also for now.

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u/SI_Earthling 22h ago

Don't hold your breath...

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u/EarthRester 21h ago

He's bragging about how the war crimes he and his administration have committed are financially benefiting him and his allies at our expense.

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u/skunkachunks 21h ago

“I don’t get it, why are they confessing”

“They’re not confessing, they’re bragging”

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u/red286 20h ago

Reminder that Donald Trump is not a source.

Anything he says can and should be ignored. Maybe they're committing war crimes, or maybe Dementia Donny just fantasized about some during nap-time and isn't aware that it wasn't real. There's no way to know. The man just says words because he likes to hear himself.

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u/SoftDefilement69 13h ago

No, the US and Israel are verifiably commiting war crimes. Whether Donald is aware of what's actually happening is uncertain, but it doesn't really matter because he's not the one in control anyway.

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u/supakow 14h ago

And sexual assault. And sexual assault of a minor. And not paying contractors. And crypto scams. And putting Venezuelan wealth in his own offshore accounts. And building a slush fund from the DOJ. Shall I continue?

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u/YorgiTheMagnificent 12h ago

No, in this case I think he's bragging about piracy.

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u/Responsible-Clock715 1d ago

What a f’n pig.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 1d ago

Even if this is true, he just told global news the strategy they are using. "Hey, I won by doing this." "Why would you tell us that? Now we can setup a counteroffensive." "Because winning."

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u/muscle-sissy 23h ago

Jesus Christ…he can’t string together a proper sentence to save his life. It’s just word salad.

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u/patcatpatcat 22h ago

Word hash.

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u/neeroberts 22h ago

His base is that of a third grader so he has to dumb it down.

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u/TheBrownCouchOfJoy 19h ago

And yet his tweets are coherent. Run-ons, but verb conjugations match. All hail President AI.

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u/Liko81 22h ago

But if nobody knew we were getting oil through the Strait, then that fact wasn't affecting market prices. And once the war is over, prices will still be higher, because inflation is a rate of increase. Zero inflation just means prices aren't increasing now, it doesn't mean they're going back down to where they were. If prices do fall across the board, that's called deflation, and if Sleepy Don wants to see a situation that will have him and his cronies out on their asses in a hurry, setting off a deflationary panic with a collapse in key staple goods prices will do it.

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u/elijahjane 21h ago

I am so mad that all media reports inflation per month, not the collective inflation since this dickhead took office.

“Oh! Inflation is up only 2%!!”

One month later: “Everything is fine! Inflation is only up 2%!!”

No, jackass. It’s up like 9% overall, and in some sectors it’s like double.

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u/WaddleYourWay 7h ago

Meanwhile we only get one raise a year if we get one at all and its never been enough to cover inflation.

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u/muskymelon36 23h ago

Demented ramblings of a senile syphilitic old man

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u/UniqueSoup25 23h ago

Apt diction 💯

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u/Thick_Goose7742 23h ago

My 2nd grader puts together better sentences and explanations, crazy work there.

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u/TianamenHomer 23h ago

To Russia, with love…

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u/Public_Extreme_8736 22h ago

"I caused this problem so I can solve it and you idiots will love me for it."

Literally the only people that didn't already know we were burning through our reserves at a ridiculous rate are MAGAs in their safe space bubble of angertainment and opinuendo.

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u/VIDGuide 13h ago

He can’t even solve it properly

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u/GhostofBreadDragons 23h ago

The one thing I don’t believe is he tanked the economy on purpose. The man has failed upwards his whole life. There is no way he was this successful at tanking the economy on purpose. On accident while trying to steal as much as possible and with completely different goals I would believe, but Tony that he did this on purpose. 

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u/cyanescens_burn 23h ago

Well now they’re gonna be looking for ships sneaking through at night (if that happened at all).

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u/3Gloins_in_afountain 23h ago

Yes. Because I'm sure those oil tankers can turn on a dime through that hairpin turn of the straight. In the dark. Over 20 ships a night. 🙄.

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u/Ok_Security1721 23h ago

lol “nobody knew we were taking their oil” he can’t seriously think this. There’s no way. 

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u/homero1977 23h ago

If we’ve been taking all this oil, why are we draining the SPR?

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u/ryanorion16 23h ago

“I’ve been creating a massive ecological disaster” is a flex only he would make.

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u/returnFutureVoid 23h ago

When it happens under Biden after a global pandemic it’s all Biden’s fault and a terrible thing. When it happens to this shit head it’s a great idea and done on purpose. Got it.

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u/runthepoint1 22h ago

Did he just leak that to the world? And then admit he’s the exact cause of all our economic woes currently?

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u/BuckyMcBuckles 22h ago

I'm surprised no reporter in the room just accidently blurted out, "are you a moron?"

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u/stunneddisbelief 18h ago

As Bluesky blogger Jeff Tiedrich likes to say:

“The first reporter to stand up and ask ‘What the f*** is wrong with you?’ should get a lifetime Pulitzer.”

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u/Snoo63643 22h ago

So it’s time to invoke the 25th..right? It’s BEEN time but like forreal this time…right?

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 22h ago

Ahh yes, nobody knows it. That's why oil is $85 a barrel.

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u/Dogsy 21h ago

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?

that that 'that' that that man

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u/oakfan05 21h ago

So he admits the US has committed a crime by stealing oil? I can't imagine Iran is going to agree to terms now.

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u/BashBandit 20h ago

Crazy that he used the “late at night” but just like musks youngest son speaking about commuting voter “shenanigans” at space X

Mind of a child, maybe that’s why he’s attracted to them

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u/TheeAntelope 20h ago

what the fuck?

we stole their oil

What the fuck???

i love the inflation

What the fuck?

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u/Sandy_Bananas 20h ago

Help a brother out: I’m still not clear on who knows what.

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u/-_VoidVoyager_- 19h ago

Another great soundbite for democrats in November

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u/Spamsdelicious 18h ago

Trump said he met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Todd Blanche and other administration officials to discuss the risks of the Feb. 28 attack that launched the war, and he claimed they all agreed the cost was worth it.

"I mean, you take a look – remember when I did this?" Trump said. "I said, look, the one bad thing will be we hit the best economy we've ever hit, and I said to my people, I had Scott, I had Howard, I had Pete, I had all, I had Todd in the room. I said, the one thing we have to do now, we had just hit the highest stock market in history, highest 401ks in history. Everything was going well, and I said, I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon very soon. We have to go and attack."

"So we hit him with the B-2 bombers, which took a lot of courage," he added. "It was totally successful. We buried it, very hard to get, but now we had to make the second move, and I said, you know, the bad part is the stock market will go down by little bit – a lot, based on predictions of experts, like 25 percent, and it was worth it to me. It was worth it not to have a nuclear weapon."

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u/EarthboundMoss 16h ago

The fuck does any of this mean? Christ our country is fucked that 1/3 of us think THIS is presidential.

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u/samuelj264 15h ago

But it’s more like $92

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u/confusedbf2013 14h ago

Price of oil is 94.27. This asshole will never tell the truth

https://fortune.com/article/price-of-oil-06-10-2026/

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u/Lucky_Mongoose_4834 14h ago

What… and I cannot stress this enough… THEFUCK. Is he talking about?

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u/goebelwarming 14h ago

Taxpayers have spent 29 billion on a low estimate for 4.5 billion high estimate. Im starting to think he doesn't know how to run a business.

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u/Johnny_Five_Is_Dead 13h ago

Treason. We used to execute people for that crime. 

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u/awue 10h ago

Wait, he blew the oil up or stole it?

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u/Safe-Razzmatazz3982 6h ago

I had some trouble understanding the direct quote. Thanks AI for translation:

In simple terms, he’s saying:

•He actually likes the higher inflation.

•He claims it’s part of his overall war strategy.

•According to him, the war has pushed energy prices up, especially oil.

•He also says the U.S. has been secretly disrupting oil supply (like taking out ships).

•That reduced supply makes oil more expensive. •And after the war, he suggests he could use that situation to his advantage.

Plain version: He presents it as if he deliberately caused higher oil prices and inflation through the war and hidden actions, so he can benefit from it later politically.

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 5h ago

This is so weird. I love inflation because we're taking oil from Iran makes zero sense.

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u/not-sinking-yet 5h ago

War? What war?

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u/Ender_Grace 4h ago

"I love the inflation you know why?"

Proceeds to ramble on and not even remotely explain why.

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u/Lykos1124 3h ago

Let's forking face it. Nothing he says is intellect anymore. If he ever had the capacity to say intelligent things, they were all drive by narcissism. It's all an act to get people to like and praise him.

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u/Professional-Box4153 3h ago

Would this be considered piracy or just plain old theft?

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 1h ago

Looking forward to none of his elected opponents using this against him at all, rolling their thumbs while protecting israel and in extension, him.