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Every second of the Chicago economic forum event is pure comedy gold

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 15, 2024

Trump says he didn’t like playing football because he didn’t like “some guy... from a bad neighborhood” tackling him pic.twitter.com/ZpnH7R5zhx

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024

Macho, macho man.

Trump: "I call it the weave. [unintelligible] You have the weave as long as you end up in the right location at the end."

John Micklethwait: "I was asking about tariffs."

Trump: "China thinks we're a stupid country, a very stupid country... Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard… pic.twitter.com/tMj1Dl7BDe

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 15, 2024

"Didn’t you hear me? I call it ‘THE WEAVE’!”

Micklethwait: If you add up all the promises you have made it would add $7.5 trillion to the debt.

Trump: Tariffs..

Micklethwait: That’s barely the cost of two of your promises

Trump: That’s like for what company you’re talking about pic.twitter.com/TGyYGfjm19

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

ECONOMICS! $$$

Micklethwait: Jobs rely on trade. If you cut that off that will have an effect on many business people here. Isn't that something you have to acknowledge.

Trump: No. There are no tariffs pic.twitter.com/vguik4MLUN

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Trump: It must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs as negative and somebody explain to you that you are totally wrong. pic.twitter.com/JOWiT75vpC

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Stable genius! (He knows a lot of horseshit!)

Trump on Tariffs: I kept us out of war.. I defeated ISIS, but I inherited that one. By the way, I think it is very important. I call it the weave. As long as you end up in the right location at the end. We have never been so close to World War III pic.twitter.com/qM4hqtBkPq

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Dream weaver.

Trump has like 15 cultists in this big crowd clapping his every answer while the rest of the serious people in this audience sit in stunned silence as Trump talks about starting a global trade war because he’s a f*cking dope. https://t.co/doXqqkEkJ3

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 15, 2024

The rest thought the media was exaggerating. Or just not reporting on him.

Trump: They said, they are a third world nation. We are a developing nation too. Take a look at Detroit. We are a developing nation. pic.twitter.com/aLsVUMPvxe

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Trump: Detroit.. It’s just horrible pic.twitter.com/kYFWZDIm2Q

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

A President for the RIGHT parts of the country!

Micklethwait: You just mentioned Putin. Can you say whether you have talked to Putin since you stopped being president?

Trump: If I did it is a smart thing. pic.twitter.com/GlDkEUcm8p

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Trump cannot violate the Logan Act. Only Democrats can!

Micklethwait: You said if you lost the dollar as a reserve currency it would be like America losing a war. Look at what you are going to do in terms of protectionism. Drive countries to use other currencies

Trump: Yeah pic.twitter.com/t6DUZ4rMw4

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

"Yeah” = “I was told there would be no math.”

This is an awful event for Trump, now he’s throwing a fit and attacking the Wall Street Journal and the moderator: What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you. pic.twitter.com/7oH9tSuScF

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Trump finally figures out he’s not taking to Bartiromo and he’s not on FoxNews.

Trump: You gotta be able to finish a thought because it’s very important. This is big stuff.

Micklethwait: You’ve gone from the dollar to Macron

Trump: It’s called the weave pic.twitter.com/j2UYp9jkQu

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Maria lets him do it.

Trump: You tend to put them in young. Only stupid people put old. You don't put old in.. pic.twitter.com/Jtf1Epuzjn

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Uh...

Reporter: Should Google be broken up?

Trump: Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes

Reporter: The question was about Google pic.twitter.com/RnjB8bhmFH

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

"What is it about the ‘weave’ that you do not fucking understand?!?”

Micklethwait: There seems to be a real fear that what you would do with tech is handed over to Elon Musk and say, you sort it out.

Trump: I have great respect for Elon. Look.. *starts talking about rockets* pic.twitter.com/AX21zyZlfb

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

His cars blow up. His rockets blow up. His cyber truck gets recalled 5 times in one year, (We’ve been building all these things for a century or so. Why does Elmo have so much trouble with them?)  What could go wrong? 😑 

Trump: Mercedes-Benz… in South Carolina. They build everything in Germany and they assemble it here... They don’t build cars. They take them out of a box and assemble them. Could have our child do it. pic.twitter.com/gI4b6QdWUC

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024

Bashing auto workers and supporting repeal of child labor laws! Win-win!

Every second of the Chicago economic forum event is pure comedy gold

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 15, 2024

Better to laugh than cry.

I’m your Huckleberry https://t.co/nyRXoRPgAS

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 15, 2024

Or, make bricks 🧱 with straw.

He should have brought his playlist.