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BARBARA: Good evening. Good evening. President Trump. Thank you for taking our question. My name is Barbara. Iām a mom of three, a grandmother of seven, and three great grands. A registered nurse. Retired, retired nurse. So I know of course what goes into raising children and running a household. People just canāt survive now. How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?
DONALD TRUMP: Good. Very good. Thank you. So we have to start always with energy. Always. I donāt want to be boring about it, but thereās no bigger subject. It covers everything. If you make donuts, if you make cars, whatever you make, energy is a big deal, and weāre going to get that. Itās my ambition to get your energy bill within 12 months, down 50%. If I can do that. Iāve done a hell of a job. 5-0, not 15, fifty.
Interest rates are going to follow and actually theyāre going to follow for another reason. The economy is now not good. And interest rates, youāll see theyāll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow, I think. And, you know, will he do a half a point? Will he do a quarter of a point?
But the reason is because the economy is not good, otherwise you wouldnāt be able to do it. But weāre going to get interest rates down and we got to work with our farmers.
Our farmers are being decimated right now. Theyāre being absolutely, absolutely decimated. And, you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country.
And weāre going to have to be a little bit like other countries. Weāre not going to allow so much to come in. Weāre going to let our farmers go to work.
And I donāt know if you remember, I love the farmers because, you know, I had many meetings as president. I had this gorgeous room with this beautiful table that seats about 35 people.
And I was with the farmers, I usually ā everybody wants something. They all want subsidy. But I was with the farmers and I think you might have been there, actually, Sarah, I said, look, fellas, weāre going to get you such a beautiful subsidy, meaning Iām going to do things.
And one of the people raises and āSir, honestly. We donāt want a subsidy.ā
This is the first time this ever happened to me. Everyone wants ā they want money. Why did they want to build windmills? We want money with these windmills. Ay-yi-yi.
Anyway, but you know what was amazing? He said, almost tears in his eyes. āWe donātā ā they were getting decimated. āWe donāt want a subsidy. We just want a, you know, a fair level playing field.ā
And I said I said, nobodyās ever said that. And I have many industries and many groups of people from different things. You know, they do all different things. Itās probably the most dramatic Iāve ever seen. He didnāt want anything. All he wanted was to be able to compete fairly.
And the reason the problem we have is other countries. They treat us very badly in that way also. They really are. And, you know, sometimes the worst countries are our so-called allies.
I say so-called, because in many ways theyāre not allies at all. They take advantage of us. They really take advantage.
But weāre going to do with the farmers. Weāre going to do what we have to do with the farmers. Weāre going to put our farmers ā
And you remember the expression when I was negotiating with China, China said, well, weāre not going to deal with this because they never had anybody negotiate. They did whatever they want. They just took us like, you know, for a bunch of suckers.
But I told the farmers, itās going to be theyāre very good negotiators. Youāre going to suffer for six months and then theyāre going to fold. And thatās exactly what happened.
They folded and they agreed to buy $50 billion. You know, you might have heard the story. I said how much, I went to the secretary of agriculture. How much did they buy? He said 15. I thought he said 50. So when theyāre ready to make a deal at 15 billion, I said, no, I want 50. Thatās what theyāve been buying.
They said, No, itās 15. I said, You said 50? And he said, No, we said 15. I said, thatās okay, ask for 50 anyway, and we got it. We got it. And they buy a lot of our products.
So weāre going to ā just a great ā interest rates, energy and common sense. A lot of itās common sense, everything.
You know, I like to say weāre the party of common sense. We want to have a strong border. How about that? We want to you know, all of a sudden theyāve changed. They didnāt want any border. They said walls donāt work.
Two things work. What are the two things? Wheels and walls. You know, if I do, thereās a gorgeous computer down here. In about two weeks, itās going to be obsolete. A friend of mine is in that business. He hates it.
He said we come up with a new model and itās that greatest. About three and a half weeks later, the damn thing is totally obsolete. The only thing that never gets obsolete is a wall and a wheel.
And the wall is what weāre talking about now. And, you know, we built hundreds of miles of wall. We then added more than I ever said I was going to do. And then we had that bad election result, that disgusting result. And they never put it up.
You know what they did with it? They sold it for $0.05 and it was expensive wall it was exactly what the Border Patrol wanted with the antique plane plate on top, which I always hated because I didnāt like the look of it.
But, you know, they demonstrated that we had mountain climbers and a couple of drug climbers. These guys are amazing. They can they put 100 pounds of drugs on the back and they go up the wall like itās nothing.
But they couldnāt get over the plate. So all of a sudden they said, okay, Iāll put the plate on. I didnāt like it. I liked it better without the plate, but it didnāt work quite as well.
So this is what we did. We had it. We had the best. We had a thing called Remain in Mexico. You donāt have to be a genius to know Remain in Mexico is a very good thing. And you think that was easy to get?
I think Tijuana, Mexico was probably the fastest growing city in the history of the world. Okay? They had hundreds of thousands. They couldnāt come in when they got in. They let everybody pour into our country, the border, just to finish with the border.
When I talk about energy, to me itās exciting. But to a lot of people itās not. But it gets exciting because weāll bring down your costs, all that. But what people want to hear and I believe when I got elected, I believe it was the border that was the biggest thing. And I fixed it and I did a great job.
And I wanted to mention it in 2020. And my people would say, Sir, nobody cares about the border. They donāt care because I had it fixed. Now I got to fix it again. I believe the border is of the greatest interest when you look at when you look at.
When you look at whatās happening in Aurora. Okay, Take a look at Aurora. When you look at whatās happening in Ohio, the great state of Ohio, I love it. Iām way the hell up. I wish I was up 18 points in your state. But we are up. We are up. I think when people hear what I have to say, I donāt know how you can possibly lose that.
You. Iāll tell you this and Iāll say this for Michigan. If I donāt win, you will have no auto industry. Within 2 to 3 years, itāll all be gone. And I know you got a little bit of an increase. It doesnāt mean thatās the small stuff because itās just a temporary thing because you will not have any manufacturing plants.
China is going to take over all of your business because of the electric car and because they have the material. We donāt.
What we have is a thing called the gasoline. We have gasoline. We have so much gasoline, we donāt know what to do. They donāt have gasoline. So why are we making a product that they dominate? Theyāre going to dominate.
You will not have a car industry left, not even a little bit of a car industry. So and youāre going to have electric cars, but youāre going to have 7%. Youāre going to have 9%, whatever it may be. And maybe someday the technology becomes so good that you can do more. I mean, you know, itās fine.
But right now, the battery technology isnāt there for long term. I always say I love the electric car, but they donāt go far enough and they donāt do well. You know, in Iowa, it was 20 degrees below zero. When we had our great success in Iowa, we had a great and there were cars all over the place. I said, whatās wrong with those cars? They donāt work well in cold and they donāt work very well in heat.
But Elonās going to figure it out because heās great. He gave me the greatest endorsement. He figures everything and. And right now heās got heās got other things. I think heās got to get a rocket up to get those two people out of there.
I said, Elon, letās get going. No, theyāre relying on Elon to get the two people ā who would like to be up there right now saying āweāre coming back home maybe in February?ā
So that was not so good. But Elon will solve the problem. Heās great, great guy. And he loves this state and he loves your whole everything youāre doing here. And heās done a fantastic job. He really has. And if he didnāt endorse me, I would not be saying that. Okay, I have a problem. I wouldnāt be saying.
I could feel my IQ dropping as I read it. Had to give up halfway.
I almost posted that gif instead. lol.
I have somehow missed watching this movie. Please tell me what movie this is.
Billy Madison, https://youtu.be/a8JIoKeApKs?si=o1v-vrzz4YTmGx1-
Remember when Adam Sandler was funny?
I like to pretend Happy Gilmore was the last movie he made.
Thank you my internet friend.
You should definitely skip to the last four paragraphs and read them because theyāre the funniest part.
JFC you werenāt kidding. I think his brain is melting as we watch.
Dammit. Iām going back in I guess
This truly made me āLOL!ā
Thank you.
TYFYS
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I think my brain caught termites reading that shit
All we can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all
Well he made it through āGood. Very good. Thank you.ā But by then he had forgotten what the question was, if he ever knew.
She asked about food costs and he remembered to mention donuts and farmers. Question answered!
The article says he answered and his answer was stop imports? Is he fucking stupid? Are the people listening fucking stupid? In what world does that not make prices skyrocket?
Edit: removed some no no words
Make our country 100% reliant on domestic supply, and deport the immigrants who are helping to harvest said supply. I donāt see how this can possibly lower prices.
If we have less supply, and the suppliers (farmers) are making more money because they are selling their product at a higher price, then the cost that the consumer pays goes way
updown. Obviously.Is he fucking stupid? Are the people listening fucking stupid?
Hmm, itās possible.
I think I got through about 50% of that, mightāve only been 15%, but Iām pretty sure it was 50%, and I only lost about 15 IQ points reading that much, so anyway I tied an onion to my beltā¦
He got this part right:
Okay, I have a problem.
Our farmers are being decimated right now. Theyāre being absolutely, absolutely decimated. And, you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country.
And weāre going to have to be a little bit like other countries. Weāre not going to allow so much to come in. Weāre going to let our farmers go to work.
Reducing supply increases prices, not decreases them. Thatās like page 1 of every economics book.
He has never ruined a book by cracking its bindingā¦
Oh I donāt know, Ivana said he kept a book of Hitler speeches by his bedside, so heās probably read at least one book. Maybe itās the only book though. It certainly seems to be his playbook.
Thatās what heās saying.
This part of the speech actually makes sense.
Increased prices is good for farmers I suppose, but itās bad for everyone else who already canāt afford food prices.
Yep. Willing to make things worse for everyone, just to make things better for a handful of farmers.
And most farms are corporate now soā¦
Yep
If another country can ship corn to US and sell for slightly cheaper than US produced corn. US corn farmers suffer.
āFree Marketā says that US consumers benefit from the inexpensive corn.
But what is good for the consumer isnāt necessarily the best for the corn farmers.
Whatās sad is Trump wasnāt talking about corn. He was talking about John Queer tractor equipment. If farmers could get inexpensive electric farming equipment from another country, US farming equipment manufacturers lose money. Whoās against right to repair? What company has spoken up the most against it?
Electric farming equipment. You mean like on a farm where they could drive for miles and miles harvesting and still end up fairly close to your starting point? Probably could do charging station check points and rotate multiple machines.
Absolutely crazy
And page 2 is how tariffs raise prices on consumers, but ol trumplestiltskin thinks China pays them.
Wharton should really revoke his degree if they want to call themselves a business school
Seriously. Can you imagine a prestigious college being embarrassed a US president graduated from there?
The idea I suppose is that supply will not change. Imported products will be just magically replaced by local produce
Itās like people think there are acres and acres of farmland just sitting around unused. There arenāt. Weāve redeveloped a lot of the farmland into suburbs and industrial parks.
And heās done a fantastic job. He really has. And if he didnāt endorse me, I would not be saying that. Okay, I have a problem. I wouldnāt be saying.
Fucking, for real? Dude can just say this kind of stuff out loud and still have supporters? āMy praise is conditional on your endorsementā.
I applaud you for reading that far down.
I read the whole thing. Simply to marvel at the fact that one third of yous fuckin loons voted for that deranged baboon then wondered why everyone thinks youāve spent too long huffing leaded petrol
I didnāt. A comment said to read the last 4 paragraphs, so I did.
That comment is the real MVP.
Yes. All you need to do is to tell Trump you like him and youāll vote for him. Thatās it.
Heās cognitively impaired. Itās plain to see.
And yet heās still within a hairās breadth of the presidency. Itās fucking insane.
I skipped to the bottom to see if he mentioned Mankind being thrown through a table.
Well then at least you found out that Trump is aware that he has a problem.
At the end of all that she fucking thanked him?? She should be presenting him with a bill for standing there and taking that nonsense for 10% of an hour.
Maybe she thanked him because he finally stopped.
You can be sure anyone asking a question at one of these events has been thoroughly prepped and prompted for what to say. And he still canāt come up with a coherent answer.
Jesus, his āweaveā is unraveling.
The disappointing thing is that there was so much gibberish that he probably overwhelmed the audience and they left thinking he knew what he was doing.
Good effing gracious.
If I didnāt have to know about his babble because he was running my freaking executive department for 4 years, I wouldāve accused this of being ai generated babbling.
Itās like listening to a tech ceo. Plenty of keywords and fluff. Very little substance.
It is much worse. Business language is fluffy and lacks substance, but doesnāt go into tangents every two sentences.
How to talk a lot without saying much at all, by a senile old fart whoās also a lying insurrectionist convicted serial rapist bankrupt ā¦
Got through maybe half of thatā¦ Fuckā¦