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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is wandering around a restaurant in Iowa ranting about "$18 trillion being invested"
Trump is wandering around a restaurant in Iowa ranting about " trillion being invested"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-27T20:34:51.694Z
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Trump is wandering around a restaurant in Iowa ranting about "$18 trillion being invested" (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Yesterday
OP
Ye gods, what idiotic parents are letting their preteen daughter near him?!?
mwmisses4289
Yesterday
#8
"We gave a trillion to Elon, and I'm getting a trillion, and we've set aside a trillion
struggle4progress
Yesterday
#9
greatauntoftriplets
(178,683 posts)1. I hope he's freezing his ass off.
Emile
(41,132 posts)2. 18 trillion dollar tariff tax hike on the back of tax payers.
misanthrope
(9,412 posts)3. The crowd is obviously screened
Because a normal person would laugh at such ludicrous numbers so obviously pulled out of his prodigious butt in the spur of the moment.
Norrrm
(4,263 posts)4. Document the $18 trillion
Who What When Where
lame54
(39,257 posts)7. Follow the imaginary money
Johonny
(25,682 posts)5. Consumer confidence hits new lows
In large part because the president cannot logically talk about his economy.
progressoid
(52,707 posts)6. "Sir, this is a Denny's."
mwmisses4289
(3,456 posts)8. Ye gods, what idiotic parents are letting their preteen daughter near him?!?
struggle4progress
(125,564 posts)9. "We gave a trillion to Elon, and I'm getting a trillion, and we've set aside a trillion
for our mafia hitmen, and ..."
Totally Tunsie
(11,639 posts)10. Iowa has a very high ranking of its sheep population.
Sadly, it's sheeple population must also be very high.
Jack Valentino
(4,551 posts)11. Hope he doesn't run into 'a good guy with a gun'
Sincerely! I think we need the 'big ugly' himself ALIVE
through the 2026 and 2028 elections,
to continue to alienate the majority of American voters
with his big ugly stupid pedophile demented MOUTH!
(I recall overhearing a conversation once between two of my nephews
who had apparently voted for him in 2016---
one said to the other,
'but don't you sometimes wish that he would just SHUT THE HELL UP?!' )