Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Dekafox]

President Trump: 'Maybe the Children will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30'

As the White House pushes forward with tariffs, toymakers brace for fallout while the President downplays consumer consequences, sparking concern across the industry.

toybook.com

Such a bullcrap "rich person" answer, even before you start to math the how much a product would have to increase in cost to go from "30" of something to 2.

This really feels like a "Let them eat cake" or "Don't you people have phones?" quotable moment, even if it'll be buried soon enough under everything else.

 

[Axaday]

He then claimed he picked Moran to do the milestone interview “because frankly, I never heard of you”, and added: “Hey, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime, you know – you’re doing the interview.”

Yeah, I'm sure this is going to lead to great things for Terry Moran, Senior Correspondent at ABC News.

 

[Axaday]

On his steep tariffs against China – which reached 145% on some goods – Trump dismissed widespread economic concerns about price increases for American consumers. “Everybody’s gonna be just fine,” the president insisted, despite analyses from Moody’s and other financial institutions projecting thousands of dollars in additional costs for American families.


“It’ll raise prices on everything from electronics to clothing to building houses,” Moran said.

“You don’t know that. You don’t know whether or not China’s gonna eat it,” Trump countered, claiming his tariffs were necessary to address trade imbalances that made the US economy “not sustainable”.

You don't know if....China is going to pay a $145 tariff so that they can sell something for $100?

Yeah.....I don't know either.

 

[Rhinox]

Trump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as real: ‘Why don’t you just say yes?’

US president lashed out at Terry Moran in tense TV interview, which included questions about deportations and tariffs

www.theguardian.com

an 80 year old toddler that seventy million people decided was the most qualified person to run the country.

Genuinely embarrassing to watch. I'm sure it means nothing to his followers, bootlickers, and die hards, but sweet ******* Jesus.

 

[Axaday]

Trump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as real: ‘Why don’t you just say yes?’

US president lashed out at Terry Moran in tense TV interview, which included questions about deportations and tariffs

www.theguardian.com

an 80 year old toddler that seventy million people decided was the most qualified person to run the country.

I'm not clear on whether the MS-13 photoshop was intended to be passed off as undoctored or whether it was made to demonstrate what each finger tattoo meant.

 

[Rhinox]

I'm not clear on whether the MS-13 photoshop was intended to be passed off as undoctored or whether it was made to demonstrate what each finger tattoo meant.

I'm pretty sure it was added to show what someone thought all the tats meant.
Really, though, it doesn't matter. What truly matters is that Trump looked at that and decided that those were actual tattoos. More than that, he attempted to cajole and then bully the reporter into saying he was right.

 

[Axaday]

I'm pretty sure it was added to show what someone thought all the tats meant.

That is what seems the most likely to me and also it is the funnier answer. Someone made it to double down for the benefit of redhats, but hilariously, accidentally tricked the President of the United States into thinking something that they didn't even intend to trick anyone into.

 

[KidTDragon]

Mike Waltz out as national security adviser, but Trump says he'll be ambassador to U.N.

President Trump says he is nominating Mike Waltz to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

www.cbsnews.com

I was wondering who was going to get thrown under the bus so Hegseth could keep his undeserved position.

 

[Ironbite4]

It's not gonna work though. Everyone is called for Hegseth's head.

Ironbite-but Trump can't call for it because Hegseth spent a lot of money for the position.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

My auto mechanic friend reports that he knows a snowbird who's in Florida and who had gas stations refuse to sell gasoline to him because they saw his Canadian license plate. They believe EVERYTHING Trump says, and they're angry at Canadians for flooding the US with Fentanyl and stealing $200 billion from American taxpayers every year like Trump says.

America has squandered all of its international soft power, because when you levy sanctions on your friends, you can't use the threat of sanctions to make countries want to stay on your good side.

It used to be that when America said "change your policies or we'll levy sanctions against you", people in other countries would take notice. But now that America has said "actually, you can be our friend and ally for generations and we'll still levy sanctions against you anyway", there's no point being America's friend anymore, and so all of that soft power, built up over a hundred years, has evaporated away. And it only took 100 days.

Trump's entire business history is basically him selling overpriced goods and services to people who can't tell the difference between solid gold and gold-plating. And his idiot supporters thought he was the guy to fight inflation.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Not sure where to put this, but since it is all related to tariffs anyway...
Microsoft just instituted a 20-30% price increase across ALL of its Xbox hardware. Most accessories are seeing a price increase in the $5-10 range, while Microsoft confirmed some of its bigger titles this holiday season will cost $79.99. In addition, Game Pass is seeing a roughly 10% price increase across all tiers. Microsoft is citing "Market Conditions" for the increase, despite soft hardware sales of Xbox consoles (though, cross platform publishing efforts and Game Pass remain strong performers)

Xbox consoles see price hike amid 'market conditions'

Microsoft announced Thursday that it raised prices on its Xbox consoles and accessories, just weeks after the Trump administration announced its tariffs.

abcnews.go.com

Nintendo had already increased accessory prices $5-10 across the board, and took a LOT of flak for Mario Kart's $80 price point. Sony has NOT increased hardware costs for the US...yet. Nor have they officially announced any standard $80 game titles...yet.

 

[Anonymous X]

Xbox hardware and software prices going up significantly in the UK as well. The tariffs aren’t just affecting the States…

 

[wonko the sane?]

Xbox hardware and software prices going up significantly in the UK as well. The tariffs aren’t just affecting the States…

Yup, because international prices are usually calculated based on the US price, then add the exchange, and whatever fees and markups that can be gotten away with.

 

[Pocket]

Part of that's because they're all sold by "American" companies that insist on routing all shipments through their US-based buildings before passing them along to where they're actually going, even though they don't do anything that couldn't be done in an overseas branch office. If there's one silver lining to this, it's that it's going to make the rest of the world wake up and realize how stupid they've been to rely on "our" products in the first place, and take steps to solve that reliance.

 

[Paladin]

Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'

A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.

www.nbcnews.com

"DEI" apparently means black people should have to live in raw sewage.

 

[Rhinox]

So he's killing the toy industry wholesale. Now he's ******* with video games. Literally the only things that help me keep my goddamn sanity.
I am going to need Luigi to get Mario on the goddamn phone and take care of this because I'm tired. I don't have much in this ******* world.

And I swear, if I have to deal with one more ******* bootlicker on my public social media boards spouting Newsmax or OAN propaganda I'm going to get myself a ban.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I would point you to flint michigan and tell you that we already knew that.

 

[Axaday]

FB friend:My auto mechanic friend reports that he knows a snowbird who's in Florida and who had gas stations refuse to sell gasoline to him because they saw his Canadian license plate. They believe EVERYTHING Trump says, and they're angry at Canadians for flooding the US with Fentanyl and stealing $200 billion from American taxpayers every year like Trump says.

It is difficult to believe that a gas station employee would notice a license plate and difficult to believe that if they did, they would go stop a customer in time to not sell them gasoline.

But I have noticed lately that it is hard to put your shoe down without smooshing Canadian Fentanyl, so I guess I see why they'd be so sensitive.

 

[Anonymous X]

Darkly hilarious that a at a certain other forum, even mention of tariffs is banned, because mere mention of it angries up the blood. I just despair that I share an interest with a load of wretched manchildren who can’t cope with facing real-life issues.

 

[NovaSaber]

Hegseth Gets Hit With Awkward Fact-Check After Bragging About Ending 'Woke' Program

Not so fast, Pete.

www.comicsands.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was swiftly fact-checked after he claimed in a post on X that he'd ended the "woke" Women, Peace & Security (WPS) program because it was an initiative created by the Biden administration.

But there's a major problem with Hegseth's claim: It was President Donald Trump—not former President Joe Biden—who signed the Women, Peace and Security Act into law in October 2017, following bipartisan support in Congress.

The legislation, rooted in a United Nations initiative, gained strong backing on Capitol Hill. Then-Representative Kristi Noem, now Homeland Security Secretary, was one of its original authors, and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio co-sponsored the Senate version.