Trump looks a lot like the man who considers a terrible president

“Wasn’t there a president, used a sweater?” Senator Chris Coans asked (D-Del.), Referring to the former Democratic president of a period who carried a sweater in 1977 when he urged Americans to reject their thermostats to preserve resources against what Carter called a “permanent” energy shortage.

“How did it work for him?” Coans continued. “I just say that Americans in general do not want to listen to their president to give them a conference on austerity and how they should plan to be less generous with their children at Christmas of a guy who is a self -written billionaire.”

Trump’s shocking statements defend the perspective of less consumer products more expensive are approval Toobaganes Thank you in large part to public dissatisfaction with its rates policy, which is essentially a unilateral tax that will increase the cost of a wide range of consumer goods, especially toys and other products made in China, for families with young children.

Speaking about the perspective that their tariffs reduce the supply of consumer goods and increase their prices, Trump said last week on Air Force One: “Maybe the children have two dolls instead of 30, and perhaps the two dolls will cost a couple more dollars than they would normally do.”

In a follow -up interview with NBC News, Trump elaborated and expanded the universe of things that children will have to do less. “I just say they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five,” he said.

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And the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, on Tuesday said that private doll girls can comfort themselves in the brightest future that Trump is building for them with their tariffs.

“I would tell that young woman, that you will have a better life than your parents, than your family, thanks to President Trump, now they can have confidence again that you will have a better life than your parents,” Besent said. “What working class the Americans had abandoned that idea. His family will own a house. He can move forward. He will have a good education. He will have economic freedom.”

For Trump, the implementation of tariffs is the fulfillment of a decades desire based on a conviction that Americans are being fucked by an international trade regime whose Trump details is often wrong. He insists that tariffs will increase manufacturing, bringing back jobs doing toys and all kinds of other products to the US coast.

But Americans, so they have been skeptical about free trade at the points of the past, do not share their deep sentences. Surveys indicate that they believe that tariffs will increase the prices of consumer goods, they will harm the United States more than our business partners and that they do not necessarily want work in factories that manufacture toys or anything else. Sacrifice dolls to change the balance of world trade, it simply is not worth it.

The survey analyst Lakshya Jain said that Trump’s rhetoric “seems something that says:” Your life will get worse and that’s fine, because you will understand. “And, in reality, no voter is well to degrade his quality of life for the president’s PET project.”

Dan Pfeiffer, former advisor to Democratic President Barack Obama, said that the statements of rates toys “could be the worst foolish and politically harmful message that I have heard.” arguing in your newsletter Trump cannot present a message of patriotic sacrifice while looking for tax cuts for the rich and magnifying their own family with a corrupt cryptography scheme.

The representative Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), One of the several youngest progressives who advocate an aggressive response to the Trump administration, said that the defense of the administration of the most empty shelves is nothing to celebrate even if they could be advantageous for the Democrats.

“The whole situation is not useful for us,” Frost told News themezone. “I mean, we don’t want the economy to be wrong.

The possibility of less expensive dolls is not an empty threat. The Mattel toy company, manufacturer of Barbie dolls and hot wheel car, told investors this week that, in response to tariffs, it would try to get part of its manufacture from China, but that it would probably also “take price setting measures in their United States business,” they mean price increases.

In a statement to News themezone, the White House spokesman Kush Desai said that “Chinese toys” are not an important part of American prosperity.

“The real prosperity is that US workers can support their families and communities because they have good jobs that pay well and provide dignity,” Desai said. “This is what the first tariff agenda, deregulation, tax cuts and national energy focuses on unleashing, not cheap Chinese toys.”

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The president’s statements that children do not need so many dolls have confused some Republicans in Capitol Hill. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), A vocal critic of Trump’s tariffs, compared Trump’s directive with Big Brother, the leader of a totalitarian state in the dystopic novel by George Orwell “1984”.

“I think how many dolls you have depends on the people you buy, not at the height of the president,” Paul told News themezone. “It seems that the Government chooses for you what is a good amount of things to buy … when your own money is, you decide. I don’t care if you have four televisions at your home or a TV or not TV.

But Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Who also questioned Trump’s commercial policies, said the media should stop worrying about Trump’s toys comments and focus on other issues such as immigration policies by President Joe Biden.

“Do you want to talk about dolls? Give me a break,” Johnson said. “It is a comment that he made and now you are becoming obsessed with that. No one cares about no one but anyone wants to hit a stick in the eye of President Trump.”

Representative Rich McCormick (R-G.), Meanwhile, said the president was essentially thinking aloud when he reflected on the availability of toy dolls.

“I think the president is so accessible that he is listening to real -time conversations that he can listen to in a golf club or in a bar or in a church,” McCormick said. “That is the president. It is so accessible that you are listening to things that most of the presidents do not even speak. That is only their nature, and that is why people like it, because it is a guy who says things that many people think.”

The Democrats have taken the comments calmly, and several legislators say that it simply shows that the billionaire president is out of contact with everyday Americans. Some suggested that it was strange for the president to assume that American children have so many dolls first.

“What average family gives 20 dolls at Christmas?” Said Representative Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.).

For representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), However, it makes sense that President Donald Trump deliberately increases the cost of toys and tells the US people that it is the best.

“In a way, he explains a lot, because I have often wondered if he had toys as a child. There was clearly something wrong there, and maybe that’s it. Maybe he was never allowed to have toys,” Huffman told News themezone. “What follows? Are we going to monopolize rubber and copper as in World War II? I mean, this is Trump’s economic dystopia.”