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This is some how more out of touch than Dr Oz and his charcuterie board shopping trip. Yes, you don't need pencils, the suddenly luxury good in my economy.
Why pencils, literally the cheapest writing utensil available? I could see if it was a good pen/pencil set or a laptop, but a piece of wood with graphite? It's less than a dollar.
Probably some specific memory Trump has of seeing a cup with “too many pencils, why do you need so many pencils???” 40 years ago. Just like the doll thing. There are more modern, relevant examples of discretionary spending he could have chosen, but his brain is mush from 1985.
The '37 dolls' could be from the cabbage patch era.
Like all Sociopathic Oligarchs, he's got OCD hoarding disorder about money. He thinks in terms of quantity, the more the better, so while a doll might be an adequate gift, a GOOD gift would be 37 of them, probably all the same doll because of a volume discount. He's just giving us permission to accept less.
Signs of sundowning and dementia with little hands on nuclear buttons.
I would bet a million dollars that he was looking at a pencil, probably somebody holding one, when he said it.
Man woman camera person pencil
Doesn't he only ever use Sharpies to write?
That's why he's so Anti-Pencil.
It's very clear Donald Trump doesn't understand how the working class lives at all
Trump doesn't understand anything except greed.