No Sh*t Sherlock: "Trump is just incapable of understanding that people struggle to afford things."

[Miles Archer]

Trump has struggled to bring the GOP back together after the party found itself split on economic issues and healthcare. The economic issue, Marcotte believes, is what is affecting Trump's second term most of all.

She said, "I do think that the economy is really… I mean, even Trump has been persuaded, obviously, that he should be worried about the bad economic news because he’s trying to stick to talking points. He fails."

"But it’s clear that whoever sat him down and said, this affordability issue is going to hurt you, got through to him because he’s trying to use the word, even though, you know, affordability sounds as weird in his mouth as saying please or thank you. He’s just incapable of understanding that people struggle to afford things.

"Even though he’s been broke how many times. Because he’s rich guy broke so he still has money to pay for whatever he wants. But it’s interesting."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-midterms-2674336680/

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1. That sentence is twice as long as necessary.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Even after that, one could trim off two more words. nt

[Miles Archer]

4. True. And it's more "HE JUST DOESN'T CARE" than "HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND."

His pathology has an interesting "wall switch."

When he encounters something that contradicts his self-image...such as his statement at the McDonald's meeting where he said "You don't know how lucky you are that I was re-elected"...it's not that he doesn't UNDERSTAND the contrary opinion. It's that he REJECTS it outright, and just flips that wall switch to the "off" position..."They're stupid because I just told them they are lucky to have me and they're complaining about eggs again, which can only mean one thing, and that it's they are stupid."

The tariffs raised prices for all Americans, and Trump bragged about "how much cash he took in."

So SOMEONE...who the hell knows WHO...actually got THROUGH to him, and said people are sick of paying $25 for a can of Maxwell House Coffee, so he said "OK, I'm gonna lower the tariffs that raised the price of coffee without admitting that my tariffs raised prices."

It's like trying to reason with a toddler. There is no "reasoning." It's just a room full of smiling sycophants nodding and thanking Trump for his "bold and decisive leadership" as he writes his name on the White House walls using his own poop...."Donny ROCKS."

[Clouds Passing]

17. There is no reasoning with the unreasonable.

[3catwoman3]

23. 3 words would suffice - Trump is incapable.

Brevity does the trick.

[Trueblue Texan]

2. Someone should explain to him it's like being on your last diaper and it...

... will be several days before someone is available to procure more. Maybe it would hit home. He's never had to do without anything, certainly not his basic needs, so it's a hard concept for him.

[Miles Archer]

6. He became skilled at siphoning off other people's money

Even when his casinos and other business ventures were crashing and burning, he always seemed to find SOME BANK that would lend him MORE. He was the higest of high risk borrowers, with an EARNED reputation of someone who never paid his debts, and yet they kept showering him with cash, because he was Trump.

Nice work if you can get it, I guess.

[Trueblue Texan]

14. but he's never had to figure out how to siphon off someone else's diaper (ewwww!)

Maybe he could relate to such a panicky situation?

[rampartd]

16. his skill was finding bank officers that he could corrupt

several of them actually jumped from roofs.

[3catwoman3]

24. Not just hard - impossible.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. "Broke," to his ilk, means they're down to their last couple million.

They'll have to start looking under the seat cushions in the Rolls for loose $100 bills.

[niyad]

7. I am surprised at one glaring error. krasnov's business entities

have declared bankruptcy multiple times, screwing people stupid enough to invest with him. He has never been broke.

[werdna]

8. The statement: He's just incapable of understanding that people struggle to afford things.

Applies to the 20 + million multi-millionaires and over 800 billionaires currently (and all their heirs!) calling the United States home, as well as Trump. Until something is done to eliminate extreme wealth and wealth disparity, I'm afraid the rest of us are in it for the long haul.

[jmbar2]

10. Think of all the things they've probably never had to learn to do...

- Create a household budget
- Plan, shop and prepare food for a family
- Laundry
- Clean house
- Try on clothes in a public store
- Take a vehicle to be serviced
- Use a library
- Raise children

These people should not be able to life decisions for the rest of us. They don't know enough about the lives of commoners to make those decisions.

[AverageOldGuy]

13. - Try on clothes in a public store

Well, we know he did frequent the try-on areas at Bloomingdale's so he could ogle women and rape one now and then.

[jmbar2]

18. ...and then the teenage pageant dressing rooms, but we digress...

[Miles Archer]

11. It's the reason why Musk bought Twitter and turned it into a toilet for the MAGAts

The chronology is out there for anyone who wants it. I've posted it several times here. Short version:

1). Elizabeth Warren name-checked Musk in a call for billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes.

2). Musk got an immediate life-threatening attack of EXTREME BUTT HURT and called Warren "TAX KAREN."

3). One month later, he owned Twitter. The rest, unfortunately, is history.

[MrsCheaplaugh]

9. Yes, he's incapable of understanding that...

because he's a psychopath. They have no empathy.

[GusBob]

12. I can name that song in 4 words

Let them eat cake

[xuplate]

15. He does not care--he is sadistic. Causing others to suffer makes him feel powerful.

[PatSeg]

19. "He's rich guy broke"

Exactly. It is a very different kind of deprivation.

[ColoringFool]

20. Au Contraire! Trump Understands, and Trump Revels In The Understanding....

Sadistic psychopath.

[Miles Archer]

22. As I have said many times, in 2025, it is Trump's daily mission to punish America for electing Biden in 2020

I don't think anyone needs to explain tariffs to him.

I think he knew EXACTLY what he was doing, and he still does.

[ChicagoTeamster]

21. That's why you don't elect millionaire inheritance baby who only associates with nepo babies and celebs to be President