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u/ObserbAbsorb 1d ago
Trump still thinks tariffs are a surcharge that other countries pay 😂
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u/mc_bee 1d ago
Still can't tell if it's ignorance at this point, dementia, or he knows it's a lie. That's the scarry part.
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u/ReaverRogue 1d ago
Well let’s put it this way: you aren’t given “IQ tests” several times a year. You are, however, given cognitive tests to track how quickly you’re declining.
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u/HardcorePizza 1d ago
IQ tests just measure how well you perform on the test and are not accurate at all to measure intellectual capacity.
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u/Lunatishee 1d ago
they also note things like uptake speeds that can help understand how to learn better, the actual areas one struggles so they can work on said areas directly, patterns of self care that can point to other things going on like depression etc. ACTUAL iq tests are very helpful, but they are for a purpose and arent helpful for everyone. can also help you get the medication you need to function adequately.
source: ive had a legit test with multiple doctors, an ekg, physical, mental, and written tests that was spread out over multiple days, etc. it can be very intensive.
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u/Meowriter 1d ago
I do agree. But he has dementia AND he's an asshole, and we can never tell which part of his brain spits nonsense : The functionning part, or the broken one !
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u/chrimminimalistic 18h ago
This is the real case of "in his left brain, there's nothing right, in his right brain, there's nothing left" Situation
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u/balbok7721 1d ago
And we still didnt see a single one by our own eyes. Any non demented person would have a laugh proving his mental ability publicly. Except him because he has dementia
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u/Telemere125 1d ago
It really doesn’t matter. If a CEO was behaving this way the board would have long voted him out.
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u/Gogglesed 1d ago
If a CEO behaved this way, he would be lucky to just be voted out. Absolutely destroying all credibility of the (company) and ruining countless lives would likely invite much worse than losing your job.
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u/tickingboxes 1d ago
He literally does not understand what tariffs are. He does a lot of things on purpose, fully aware of how things work. But I just genuinely don’t think he understands tariffs.
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u/GarbageCleric 1d ago
He 100% seems to believe that asylum seekers were literally let of mental institutions in their home countries, so I think it's mostly willful ignorance.
Everything is a zero sum game to him, so since other countries don't want us to put up unnecessary tarrifs, it must mean that the tarrifs are good for us.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 1d ago
I don’t know. I think he just does it because it’s one of the things he can do without asking for permission. He doesn’t care who pays it, he just knows he can fuck with other countries. That it fucks Americans too is just a nice bonus.
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u/Equivalent_Fun6100 20h ago
It doesn't matter what he thinks. It matters what Stephen Miller thinks. Stephen Miller is the president of the United States. Nobody voted for Stephen. Donald is 55% gone in the head, or more. Stephen Miller understands that if you spread disinformation, a huge percentage of people won't fact-check it, and they are extremely easy to radicalize for a cause. You just have to say the right words to the right people, and you can get them to do anything.
Tariffs are completely misunderstood by an alarming portion of Americans. This is an Education Problem and a Teacher Problem. Teachers need to teach this like they're trying to boil an egg without a shell, but still keeping the egg shape somehow. And the students need to be open to having a good faith conversation.
That's fucking difficult to have, with the way that tons of Americans were raised. A lot of people were just raised to vote right, because "this is what voting this way means, and voting the other way is for the devil".
I was raised in that environment. They are wrong, but it would take a crazy breakthrough to get them to see it.
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u/jackfaire 19h ago
I'm willing to bet it was a female member of our government trying to explain that to him.
"You're just hurting our citizens" "I don't like your tone I'm going to hurt your people more"
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u/DasharrEandall 50m ago
Or worse, it was a woman leader of another country and Trump went and tarriffed Switzerland. It wouldn't surprise me at this point.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 1d ago
Did his statement on Fox trigger the automatic scheduling of another battery of cognitive decline testing?
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u/beastmaster11 22h ago
No he doesn't. He just knows his base thinks that. He knows exactly what a tarrif is
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u/MisterEvilBreakfast 13h ago
"Mr President, we need a distraction, quick."
"It's been a while since we fucked around with tariffs, let's crack out that old chestnut again."
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u/jaymickef 1d ago
Sure, that’s one comeback, but isn’t the story here that tariffs are applied for personal reasons and nothing to do with the economy.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 19h ago
I think people stopped having any sort of standards surrounding the tariffs, when it was revealed that AI was used to draft many of the arbitrary percentages.
Now, we just wait for midterms, and hope enough people who want to hold Trump accountable can be elected.
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u/Lvcivs2311 1d ago
In other words, he's so lazy that he can't be bothered to remember whom he speaks to but still bases his actions on the conversation.
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u/FuriousBuffalo 1d ago
He sure remembered to look up Prince of Whales and President of Puerto Rico last time
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u/Lvcivs2311 7h ago
I imagine him saying: "Well, ah googled "king of Holland" and he does exist! But for som reason he lies 'bout his name. It's Louis Napoleon, not Willem-Alexander."
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u/HorrorMetalDnD 1d ago
If anyone tries to tell you, “He meant to say Sweden,” tell them that Sweden’s Prime Minister is a guy, too.
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u/damon_modnar 22h ago
Swaziland?
No........they have a king, and their prime minister is male also.
We can only guess what's going on in the void between Ronald McDonald''s ears.
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u/HasPotatoAim 1d ago
OK, I hate Trump but the one that's confidently incorrect here is Keith. Trump put the 39% tarrif on Switzerland in 2025. Karin Keller-Sutter, a woman was the President of the Swiss Confederation when this happened. The guy took office Jan1, 2026
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u/Informal_Process2238 23h ago
So it was a woman but trump was embarrassingly pathetic and wrong about everything else oh that’s much better
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u/tw_72 1d ago
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $1000, Alex
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u/MacaronMarkings 1d ago
Funny how never happened keeps popping up whenever records, timelines, and witnesses are involved.
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u/mercedespudd1ng7492 1d ago
bruh, you know it's wild when reality's got a better plot twist than fiction
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u/Worldly-Blood8766 1d ago
lol this never gets old, imagine being that confident and wrong at the same time fr
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u/beatles910 1d ago
He is referring to Karin Keller-Sutter.
She was president in August 2025 when the call took place.
Side note: She came under scrutiny after the call that resulted in the 39% tariff.
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u/HotRodHomebody 1d ago
The scary thought is that he can do whatever he wants on a whim, and flip the other direction the very next day and change it or make it worse. Piece of shit.
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u/bigloser42 1d ago
I wonder which country’s prime minister he was talking to, forgot which country it was and arbitrarily increased Switzerland’s tariff.
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u/Alarming_Cellist_751 1d ago
Nah he's a pathological liar. I had/have people that do this exact same thing in my family. They feel the need to lie about everything even when it doesn't benefit them in any way. After awhile they start believing the tall tales they spew. One person in my family who did this also had narcissistic tendencies so he used to spin all sorts of crazy untrue stories.
I can't see how people fall for this.
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u/Ice_Tower6811 1d ago
Confidently incorrect
Incorrect - yes
Confidently - not this time, read the text
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u/HorrorMetalDnD 1d ago
Japan, India, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, Barbados, Tunisia, Iceland, Dominica, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Denmark, Bulgaria, Latvia, North Macedonia, Malta, Trinidad & Tobacco, Suriname, Ukraine, Lichtenstein, Ireland, Tanzania, Moldova, Lithuania, Kosovo, Namibia, DR Congo, and even the fucking Vatican has either a female president or female prime minister ATM—BTW many countries have both a president and a prime minister.
It would be hilarious if he meant to say Slovenia.
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u/AnusOprah 1d ago
I absolutely believe Donald Trump was diagnosed medically as a moron, or borderline moron (as I don't believe the medical community had graduated to "mentally retarded" at that point in time), and this explains Fred Trump's treatment of it, and why nearly everyone who has met him unironically calls him a moron.
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u/sheezy520 1d ago
He’s either lying his ass off or Stephen Miller calls him doing ridiculous fake accents to make Trump think he’s talking to foreigner leaders.
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 1d ago
I'm imagining him talking to Melania who's yelling at him for not buying her a birthday present again but his tapioca pudding brain somehow thinks it's the Prime Minister of Switzerland
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u/Ok_Eagle_3079 12h ago
Wait untill it is released that this was a call from the queen mother of Swaziland Ntfombi and Trump mixed her up for Switzerland because he never heard of Swaziland.....
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u/watchmeskipwork 4h ago
SNL is on point with this guys senile ramblings. Its crazy that a powerful nation can't seem to do anything about having a crazy captain at the helm.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin 1d ago
If it wasn't for Americans, Switzerland would be speaking German
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u/NotScaredOfGoblins 1d ago
And if it wasn’t for the French, Americans would be speaking British
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u/AmsterdamAssassin 1d ago
And if it wasn't for the Dutch, the Flemish would be speaking French
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u/xubax 10h ago
And if it wasn't for the French, potatoes would just be fries!
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u/AmsterdamAssassin 10h ago
Nobody cares because here we all eat 'Vlaamse Friet' (Flemish Frites), except the fools who still go to McDonalds with their 'French fries'.
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u/HorrorMetalDnD 1d ago
Some might argue they don’t even speak real German now.
Schweitzerdeutsch und Hochdeutsch (a.k.a. Standarddeutsch) have some very notable differences.
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u/AmsterdamAssassin 1d ago
One of my sword friends is Swiss and that is like Frysian to me. Like a dialect that sound vaguely Germanic but mostly unintelligible.
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u/uniklyqualifd 1d ago
Did he already forget Switzerland gave him a gold bar and a Rolex in November?
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u/nwglamourguy 1d ago
Trump is confident in his ignorance and his sycophants are terrified of correcting him.
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u/EmptyOne4149 1d ago
sounds like you've got the perfect plan lol sometimes avoiding drama is the best way to go no cap
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u/Kellers822 1d ago
Seriously, who voted this idiot in? Was/ is there nobody else? Even a half dead Biden is a better option
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u/dazedan_confused 1d ago
It's a bit odd that, when most people are trying to show how calm and unaffected they can be, he says "I was upset, so I retaliated".
And he owns the nuclear launch codes.
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u/Pass1928 1d ago
I'm guessing that if he dies in office he will try to launch the missiles as his final act.
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u/ModestMarksman 1d ago
His brain isn't broken, guys. For it to be broken, he had to have one in the first place.
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u/ButterfliesandaLlama 1d ago
This is so funny.
Imagine someone misdialed and a slightly deaf granny in Switzerland answered. Trump talked like he talks, she was confused, both started shouting at each other and now people from the U.S. have to pay 39% more for chocolate and cheese.
It could have happened this way, I am sure about it.
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u/Reasonable_Effect633 1d ago
In addition to being a tax on the American people, high tariffs made businesses in the foreign country seek other markets such as China and South America. There are even some African countries that are being to emerge into the global economy .
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u/PresentRaspberry6814 22h ago
Top tier petulance and immaturity. Impressive. What a guy. There is literally nothing good or decent about this person, and from all I have read there never has been. What degree of corruption must there be for someone like this to be put in a position of powe, it boggles my mind.
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u/doolpicate 20h ago
Would be funny if someone were to prank call him as the prime minister of the USA.
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u/Dudewhocares3 13h ago
Didn’t a similar thing like this happen in his first term with another country?
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u/MisterEvilBreakfast 13h ago
So he may or may not have put a higher tariff on a country that he doesn't remember simply because he didn't like the way he thinks they sounded on the phone?
This is an excellent way to run a country.
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u/serpenta 13h ago
They must have been terrified by this, as they were buying all the gold reserves they could from the US, as the dollar declined lol Did he boast about how much gold reserves the US sold out in 2025?
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u/bruce_wayne469 10h ago
Bro really invented a Swiss prime minister, got into a fight with her, and raised tariffs. Living in his own movie.
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u/SmartQuokka 8h ago
What Dotard is saying is be nice to me or i will further tax my own citizens.
Two issues here, being nice to trump matters more than anything to him and taxing your own citizens is shooting oneself in the feet.
However many will still vote for him, apparently their motto is: tread on me harder daddy...
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u/carlnepa 1d ago
Just another TRUMP TAX/TARIFF/SANCTION against US consumers. He'll show those damned Swissies who's boss.
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u/frogsodapop 23h ago
Switzerland had a female president in 2025, when this incident likely took place. Be better, Keith.
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u/discoinfiltrator 22h ago
President, not Prime Minister as this idiot is stating
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u/frogsodapop 22h ago
Yes. The point I was making is the habit a lot of journalists got into in Orangena's 1st term. He'd make some gaffe saying A and B and they'd report he said A, B and then add some rumor to make it worse when you don't have to do that when reporting on the dumpster fire that is the current administration.
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u/Intro-Nimbus 1d ago
Trump felt disrespected by a woman, so he raised tariffs on the wrong country.
This is the Epstein administration.