I Keep Thinking It Can’t Get Stupider

REPORTER: But we're seeing as a result that ports here in the US, the traffic has really slowed and now thousands of dockworkers are truck drivers are worried about their jobs

TRUMP: That means we lose less money ... when you say it slowed down, that's a good thing, not a bad… pic.twitter.com/6nW5CG6IFY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2025

Imagine If Biden Said It, Dept.

Trump on a new air traffic control system: "You always need pilots. I want pilots. But you wouldn't even have to have pilots." pic.twitter.com/BWVkbvKjF9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2025

Try as hard as you want, you can’t make that make sense.

Trump: "This is where they want to be shopping. They want to shop in this country because we have the consumer. If this country went bad, the whole world would go bad." pic.twitter.com/R36bsc2Zqz

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2025

"Sir, this is not a Wal-Mart.” (And what’s the logic here? That China lowers its prices by 145%?)

REPORTER: Will companies like Ford and Mattel recently saying they're gonna raise prices on certain products, how long do you think the American public is gonna be patient?

TRUMP: I think they're saying that just to try to negotiate deals with me pic.twitter.com/bUQgpVgbt0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2025

Textbook megalomania.

Trump: "You better go out and buy stock now. Let me tell you. This country will be like a rocket ship that goes straight up. This is going to be numbers that nobody has ever seen before ... Senator Schumer has become a Palestinian." pic.twitter.com/czK5sRdVNI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2025

"I can connect/Nothing with nothing.”