Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview
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Donald Trump was unable to give coherent answers on his economic plans in an interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago.
  • terraborra@lemmy.nz
    1581·
    18 days ago

    The grilling exposed Trump’s total cluelessness with regard to his own economic policy, and led Trump to attack Micklethwait as biased.

    Yes the notably socialist empire of Bloomberg, used by communist stock traders around the world, is biased against the totally rational and very cool Trump economic “plan”.

    Maybe adopting failed economic policies from the 1920s (and older) isn’t a winning formula?

      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
        33·
        18 days ago

        I love this video so much. The interviewer asks Shapiro to defend his stances and Shapiro responds by calling the interviewer a liberal.

        “A Georgia law you support would have women who had a miscarriage face trail for potentialy 30 years in jail. Isn’t that a bit harsh?”

        “Oh, sorry, I didn’t know you were A LIBERAL!”

      • LotzaSpaghetti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        281·
        18 days ago

        Knowing Neil’s background and then watching this video gives one truly one of the most delicious viewings of all time.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
          41·
          17 days ago

          I watched it without and it was still interesting. What’s Neil’s background? Seemed like a super nice old guy.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            17 days ago

            I believe Andrew Neil himself is rather conservative. So Shapiro accusing him of being a liberal is… even more absurd.

            • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
              51·
              17 days ago

              I liked the part where he said that theres not much money in broadcast news in Britain, unlike in the states. Sort of framed the perspectives in a great way.

    • Kalkaline @leminal.space
      34·
      18 days ago

      That’s the one group I don’t understand, the finance guys, business owners, stock analysts, etc. How can they possibly be on team Trump? You want some certainty in the market, not some dementia patient steering the wheel with Christian Nationalists like Stephen Miller whispering directions in his ear.

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        34·
        18 days ago

        That’s the one group I don’t understand, the finance guys, business owners, stock analysts, etc. How can they possibly be on team Trump?

        Tax cuts for the rich

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
          141·
          18 days ago

          Lot of fucking good that’s going to do them when nobody can afford to buy their shit

          Who are you going to sell to? Because it ain’t me, and it ain’t 99% of the rest of the American people. So if these rich fucks want to chase their infinite paycheck, they’re going to need some revenue.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        16·
        18 days ago

        “What does The Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything, and so have you by the way, you’ve been wrong,” Trump replied, crossing his arms and curling into his seat.

        Ah, yes, the well known unreputable, woke, liberal extremist publication, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal.

      • 31337@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        17 days ago

        For some of the ultra-wealthy (Theil, Altman, Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, OpenAI board, etc), a type of accelerationism seems to be in-vogue (e/acc publicly, and probably accelerationist thoughts like The Dark Enlightenment privately). I think some ultra-wealthy are just trying to hedge their bets (Zuckerberg, and news corporations come to mind), because if Trump does win he’ll definitely try to use his power to harm companies he doesn’t like. I think others, such as Musk, want to be Russian-style oligarchs. I guess all this is kinda related; accelerate into some sort of collapse or chaos, use their positions to maneuver into greater power and become oligarchs or create corporate-city-states, or whatever stupid shit they believe in.

        I think finance workers are about as split between the parties as the rest of the population; probably more socially liberal. Small bussiness owners are some of the most ignorant and authoritarian people I’ve encountered.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          17 days ago

          Also you’ve gotta look at other similar situations in history. Capitalism isn’t doing so great at the moment and that drives people to socialism or barbarism. To the rich who’d spent a long time fighting for capitalism to be unrestrained its an easier leap to fascism than to restraining capitalism.

          The harsh truth these people don’t want to accept is their best outcome involves huge taxes on them to fund a revamped new deal alongside strong unions that will force them to pay labor fairly. They’ll still be rich but it’s unlikely they’ll be “quick jaunt to orbit” rich.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
        5·
        18 days ago

        A lot of people with a high degree of expertise in one area are deficient in other areas, but wrongly assume they are geniuses in all areas.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      To be fair, they are probably biased against him, but that’s just because his plan is fucking trash and even those who would benefit see the long term problems with turnip’s plan to kick off a deflationary spiral.

  • Clent@lemmy.world
    962·
    18 days ago

    He’s truly a man of the people. Turns out the people of America are dumb.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    781·
    18 days ago

    Trump responded by sighing and ranting about Virginia’s voter rolls. “The question is about Google, President Trump,” Micklethwait replied. Trump then went on a spiel about how Google is unfair to him and doesn’t show users any positive stories about him.

    There are no positive articles about him that aren’t from horribly biased sources.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      18 days ago

      A journalist had to answer a question from the public on the subject in a Canadian special on US elections and his answer was “Look, I’m a journalist, I report facts and if you believe I’m biased because all the news coming from the republican side are bad news I would tell you I’m not the one who chose the candidate that generates these bad news, my job is just to report them, nothing else.”

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
    201·
    17 days ago

    I hate the guy, It scares me shitless that he may be elected, but we must admit that creating the “weave” thing to sell his mental decline as a brilliant oratorial strategy is a genius marketing move. The problem is that he is selling exploding Ford Pintos as the safest car in the world.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    19·
    18 days ago

    The Orange Shit Stain and his body language says it all. Kudos to the journalist for sticking to the subject and keeping the POS in line.

      • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        18 days ago

        I’m gonna try to watch this later. I give myself 3 minutes before I give up. Thanks for sharing the link.

        Update: I made it about 20 minutes into the “interview” and had to stop. The gish gallop is hard with Trump and there’s no way I could listen to it for a full hour.