Trump struggles to find ~~his economic messaging amid voter skepticism~~ a lie that will still work, because most people aren't as stupid as he thinks they are.
FTFY.
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Because even his dumbest supporters can tell when they are unemployed and missing the mortgage payment.
He calls affordability a democrat hoax, but I distinctly remember seeing him give a meandering 75 minute long “press conference” (he took no questions) at his lavish Bedford golf course in August of 2024 next to tables of groceries claiming that he was going to make them more affordable for everybody. If you were too dumb to see through that lie then, it doesn’t sound like you are now (except for the most willfully ignorant citizens). The guy never had a plan other than to blame Biden. Now he states the issue is nonexistent even though he ran on it and subsequently did absolutely nothing to help it with his tariffs. He is a fraud of the highest order.
It's like he lies or something. 🧐
Hard to have a honest message when all you do it lie.
The only messages Trump has are lies and bigotry, and even his supporters aren’t buying his lies anymore. Normalizing his demented horseshit as some kind of coherent economic message is how we got to where we are today.
Selling a pile of poo as something else becomes challenging after a while.
When all you have is absolute bullshit you can only kick the can down the road for so long before people aren't enamored with it anymore.
Dude doesn’t know how to apologize.
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