Oh man, I thought it was a lost cause, but now I understand why I’ve got “Scurvy” on my bingo card.
When he speaks it’s like a monkey in a fez playing one of those hand cranked street organs from the 1920’s.
HO-hu-hu-HO-hu-hu-HO-hu-hu-HO-hu-hu
If you don’t get something for free then you are losing noney…
Baby tantrum believes the world is his parents and it needs to make him gifts all the time otherwise he will be angry.
If trump had the intelligence to know how stupid he was, would he be embarrassed? If a tree falls in the forest…
Even if he wasn’t mentally outclassed ten times over by a literal brick he’d still be a narcissist psychopath actual baby eating child rapist grifter. So no.
I’m kinda just starting to think he’s over there talking to the AI non stop and is no longer with us. It’s the ultimate yes man and he likes those.
2 billion ? “How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?”
You don’t lost 2 billion dollars, you get bananas worth 2 billion dollars in return, which undoubtedly gets inflated by profit margins at the register, meaning you sell it for more than what you bought it for.
2 billion ? “How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?”
Enough to make sure there’s always money in the banana stand.
I think he means “we the country as a whole” buy for 2 billion dollars from Brazil, then add costs and profit margins; instead of “we the consumers” spend 2 billion dollars buying bananas from resellers, who have already added costs and profit margins. But it doesn’t really matter, he just says whatever to get what he wants. Whether it’s true or makes sense is not relevant to him.
Imagine applying the same reasoning inside the US:
“Massachusetts buys $2 billion of oranges from Florida. Massachusetts is therefore losing $2 billion. If Massachusetts stops buying oranges, it saves $2 billion.”
That’s plainly incomplete. Massachusetts has oranges in exchange for the money. Requiring Massachusetts to grow all of its own oranges would probably make Massachusetts poorer, not $2 billion richer.
He has no understanding of trade deficit, thinks it’s zero-sum, because the word “deficit” is in it.
Yup. He’s also ignoring other basic economics and accounting like the fact that individual consumers don’t buy the bananas from the producer. Corporations do and then mark them up and sell them for profit. A transaction is not just a loss of money in exchange for a good that then dies or becomes useless. It’s like the fucker has never heard of an asset. You also don’t lose money when you buy equipment for your company that will “pay for itself” through use or even just depreciate in value. I KNOW he understands the concept of net worth… right?
Another day and another story that makes me wonder how this lobotomite made it into office.
It has apparently taken Trump 80 years of being alive to figure out how spending money works. In his defense, he’s probably not used to paying what he owes.
That’s exactly it. He’s not saying he doesn’t understand basic commerce, he’s saying he wants to steal the bananas instead of paying for them.
That’s why Trump never pays his bills, he doesn’t want to “lose” that money.
We live in such stupid times, I can’t tell if this satire or not. 🤷
It’s not, mostly
bananas are so cheap, a perk of imperialism, still not good enough trade apparently
There is never “good enough” with fascists. They’re a snake devouring it’s own tail.
It’s one banana, Michael.
Its a banana republic.
I’m surprised how surprised I can still be at how patently stupid this man is.
Trump eats dollars.
So… If canada stops selling to the us and starts trade with the eu, they are effectively helping russia! Jeenius!
But then we don’t have bananas worth $2,000,000,000 at point of export to grow into an even greater amount of money flow and income within our own country.
Bro who gives a fuck about the bananas you gonna have 2bil he says.
Would you rather have a banana or 2bil???
Mercantilism, in 2026? It’s more likely than you’d think!
