At this point, Donald Trump has practically invented his own language: Trumpspeak. In Trumpspeak, only brags, lies, and tantrums can be expressed, but most often, all three are combined. Trump gets angry when he’s being embarrassed or corrected and he flies into lying, exaggerating brags about his own greatness. It’s what got him laughed out of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
Trump’s supporters may believe these claims, and believe that some of the accomplishments Trump brags about are truly related to policies he’s implemented as president, but the UN council did not and neither does any American with enough sense to know what happened from 2008-2016, under President Obama’s administration. Trump is riding the coattails of Obama’s economic recovery, and the people benefitting the most from Trump’s own policies are the wealthy.
If Trump spent nearly as much time listening to his economic advisors, at least a few of whom seem to understand how this all works if Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House is to be believed, and less time bragging about accomplishments he doesn’t really have much to do with, the American people would benefit in a more equitable way. No American consumer will benefit from Trump’s trade war; in fact, it is us who will pay for those tariffs in the form of higher prices on consumer goods.
That’s life in Trump’s America, though. Ignore the facts and praise the leader, blind patriotism is the rule of the day.
Twitter was not buying Trump’s bragging, either. Read some of their comments below:
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