Monday, July 28, 2025

The correct headline would be "Our President is a lying, innumerate fantasist/BS artist"; but Republicans would cry bias, even though they know it is true.

In the Washington Post:

Trump’s imaginary numbers, from $1.99 gas to 1,500 percent price cuts

The president likes to cite specific numbers to bolster his claims. They are often wildly improbable — or just impossible.

President Donald Trump made a promise at a reception last week for Republican lawmakers that was as impossible as it was specific: He would drive down drug prices by as much as 1,500 percent — “numbers that are not even thought to be achievable,” he said.

A price cannot drop by more than 100 percent, but Trump went on to make several other precise but clearly false numerical claims. The cost of gasoline had fallen to $1.99 a gallon in five states, he said; according to AAA, it was over $3 in every state. Businesses had invested $16 trillion in America in the past four months, he added; the entire U.S. economy last year was worth less than $30 trillion.

Trump even congratulated Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins for having an approval rating of 92 percent. In this polarized moment, it is unlikely any U.S. political figure enjoys a figure close to that, and the White House provided no source for the claim.


5 comments:

Not Trampis said...

don't forget his uncle talking to the Unabomber when at lecturing at Uni. Fantastic achievement since no-one knew who the Unabomber back then and the bloke never went to that Uni

Anonymous said...

Lot of Republicans and MAGA types very unhappy right now. Maybe about half of them still sailing along. But many unhappy.

John said...

The polling once again demonstrates that all his blathering about MAGA is amounting to nothing. The MAGA crowd deserve to have their food stamps cut, the health services removed, and are the archetypes of fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Anonymous said...

Very true. One authority tells us that you cannot serve two masters. He may do a few good things in the background. But he is basically a traitor. An agent for an alien people. Plus he should be sent to the Hague

John said...

The Catallaxy people are still fully on board. This isn't the first time Trump has demonstrated dyscalculia. If I made that error my advanced maths high school teacher would have demoted me to social math. BTW, the argument that chronic venous insufficiency is benign is BS. It is a marker for potentially serious cardiac issues. When they said it was benign I had my suspicion because any loss of circulation is potentially very serious, if only because of the clotting risk. Another prominent sign is he is now speaking and walking slower.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250718/Chronic-venous-insufficiency-linked-to-increased-cardiovascular-disease-and-mortality-risk.aspx