Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rattner pointed to the signing by Trump, who called it one of the most "consequential" moves of his presidency, as another "surreal, parallel universe Trump moment."A “surreal, parallel universe Trump moment,” you say…
"He was going to lower prescription prescription drug prices by 30 to 80 percent, the executive order actually does nothing," he told the MSNBC hosts. "He doesn't have the authority to do any of those things."
"But then he said just recently, I heard it on [MSNBC's] 'Way Too Early' this morning out in the Middle East, wherever he is, that a lot of Democrats are going to vote for this tax bill, going through Ways and Means because it was going to lower drug prices," he added before bluntly stating, "There's nothing in the tax bill that would lower drug prices."
"So the president is off on one universe and the world is on a different universe, and he is talking about a world that does [not] exist," he pointed out.
Can’t imagine such a thing.Trump: Sean Duffy was the world champion climbing trees up and down. When somebody’s a champion— he was the world champion for a long time… pic.twitter.com/aoIKh9xxgN
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2025
Wonder if they got that on “Morning Joe”?Trump: You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire.. you see these trees being knocked down like like they're being sawed down by a top of the line timber-man like like you know who, Sean Duffy pic.twitter.com/K7js3x6upc
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2025
A family member recently admitted he voted for Trump in ‘20, but not in ‘24. Didn’t vote for Harris, either. Basically because she’s a Democrat. I think a lot of people vote that way. But he professes to be well informed and open minded, and I’ve no doubt he thinks he is. But he’s bothered by Trump’s policies, not his utter ignorance and incompetence, or word dribbling like this.
It’s not that Trump’s rambling nonsense doesn’t penetrate the “shell” of non-Democratic voters. It’s that this stuff doesn’t even make the news. If it does, my family member would consider it “slanted” because he never hears about it otherwise. And that, of course, is the problem. Seriously (though it’s a tiresome trope), if Biden had been rambling nonsensically like this at a breakfast in a foreign country? This is Grandpa muttering in his Cream of Wheat at the breakfast table. But unless it’s reported as consistently as it happens, it’s “out of context” or “fake” or just “biased reporting.” (My family member also says he’s found a news source he thinks presents “only the news.” But like the MSM, it’s not presenting this kind of drooling in public as “news.”) “Journalism” does Trump a big favor by refusing to say that not only is the Emperor stark naked, but that his brain is tapioca pudding. George Clooney criticizes Biden and it raises serious questions about Biden’s mental acuity. Someone on the Right criticizes Trump and it’s a sign of friction, or even fractures, in MAGA or the GOP. The substance of the complaint disappears beneath the gossip of who’s on whose side. Clooney criticizes Biden, and it’s about what Clooney said. A celebrity supporter criticizes Trump, and the story is about their standing in Trump world.
No wonder real information about Trump goes unknown, or is dismissed as “fake news.”
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