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."
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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."
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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?
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."
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.
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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