“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

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    “He’s just trolling the media, he actually deeply cares about me.”

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    At this point the problem isn’t him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He’s a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.

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      I’ve been saying for a while until we get rid of Peter Thiel and the other Epstein class members things won’t get better. Trump is a symptom not the problem. It’ll be cathartic setting him gone but it won’t fix things.

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    Malignant narcissists don’t give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he’s a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he’s happy as a clam.

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    This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.

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      13 days ago

      oh man. Do you really think Iran is strategising their negotiations around things Trump says to the media?

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        I presume they are evaluating all his actions in order to estimate how much domestic disapproval he’s willing to tolerate. They’re won’t be convinced that he will tolerate a lot simply by him saying so (since that’s what he would always say if he was rational) but if he were saying that he was very worried about prices going up, that could be significant to them (which is why he shouldn’t do it).

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          Thats not how Trump works though. He just says whatever dumb thing has been on his mind in the last 15 minutes.

          Yesterday he was saying fuel prices have come down.

          Every other day hes been declaring the Strait open.

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            I’m not claiming that he always thinks before speaking, or that he’s thinking before speaking this time. I’m just saying that he happens to have said what a person who did think before speaking would have said.