"Nuts" is putting it mildly. It's "Straightjacket Time."

[Kid Berwyn]

"In 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens rather than foreign countries would start paying the money necessary to run our government," Trump said. "Then, in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy; it would have been a much different story. They tried to bring back tariffs to save our country, but it was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done."

Trump continued, "It took years and years to get out of that depression, far longer than even FDR — had that office right over there for a long period of time. The ramp system, it's rather intricate, was built because of him. And every time you walk up, you think of him. And he did a great job in many ways — but it lasted long beyond his terms, as you know. But it's not too late any longer, and we're going to start being smart, and we're going to start being very wealthy again."

-- Greedy Pee-resident Donald J Trump, a production of Vladimir Putin and the Mafiya

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/heads-are-going-to-explode-critics-stunned-as-trump-delivers-bizarre-history-lesson/ar-AA1CaXaA

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He claims tariff taxes would have prevented 1929 crash & Smoot-Hawley was correct but too late. . . . nt

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Guy really knows his stuff.

I don't have a photo of the entire chart, but my friend told me one nation was conspicuously absent:

Russia.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Good catch. . . . nt

[PA Democrat]

10. Sigh

[Ocelot II]

2. Whut?

It's time to take him down with tranquilizer darts like you would a charging rhino, and haul his fat orange carcass off to Happy Acres Home for the Disturbed, where he can live out his days in a quiet room reminiscing about his salad days as a shady real estate developer and BFF of Jeffrey Epstein, while nice ladies bring him pudding and tell him how great he is.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. It's what he's doing now.

The charging rhino is there physically, but its brain is rabid. I hope to your excellent visualization we add what Edward G. Robinson experienced at his end in Soylent Green:

[malaise]

12. He makes mad king George look sane

😀😀

[sop]

3. Trump really, really wants to eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with revenue from tariffs.

That's been his plan all along; he and his oligarch friends all think it's a great idea. And like every other demented, poorly-thought out con man scheme rolling around inside that diseased brain of his, Trump just can't let it go.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. The wealthiest times in history and America's rich always act broke.

Reagan, and most every one since except for President Biden, have instituted all manner of Trickle Down, resulting in a Golden Shower where the rich keep getting richer, while the great middle class become the new poor and the deficit grows, again profiting the rich who loan Uncle Sam the cash.

The Supremes are celebrating tonight with Harlan Crow and friends from the Bohemian Grove.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Just a pile of bullsh*t. Watch your shoes.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Absolutely waist deep.

Trump is literally paving the Rose Garden so his KGB monitor Melanie of his doesn't sink in her stilettos.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Another analysis

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaah send this everywhere

He knows nothing about anyth8bg but thinks he’s an expert

[Kid Berwyn]

16. He wants to tank the economy.

So, after We the People riot because there's no jobs, money, food and toilet paper, he can roll out the tanks.

[ms liberty]

19. I came here to say this. He knows nothing about the economy or business.

He's just a grifter.

[Norbert]

6. Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs

[Kid Berwyn]

17. The Coo Coo for Coco Puffs bird would be a better Chief Executive.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. LOL.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Experts agree.

On Bluesky, columnist Brian J. Karem posted, "NOW: According to Trump the Great Depression would have never happened if we had tariffs in 1929. WE DID! AND worse, President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law in 1930, which raised import duties by an average of 20%. International trade suffered."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/heads-are-going-to-explode-critics-stunned-as-trump-delivers-bizarre-history-lesson/ar-AA1CaXaA

[eppur_se_muova]

20. Reasons WELL known. Tariffs fell most heavily on lower & middle classes; Income Tax was created to tax higher incomes.

Most Americans approved of the income tax at the time, because it was fairer than tariffs.