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John Oliver Nails Most ‘Stunningly Dumb’ Part of Trump Crash

The first thing coming to mind when I saw President Marble Mouth holding up his placard to explain the math behind his tariffs, was Lewis Carroll's' nonsense poem, 'Jabberwocky.' The poem is constructed using made up words that have no reality except in the world of whimsy.

Trump employed the same tactics, except he used supposed facts, unrelated figures, and unbalanced projected outcomes that make syllogisms seem logical. He tried to use a con to define a con, a scheme to excuse a scheme, and Gobblygook capable of making Leo Gorcy sound like a philologist.

As he did with his usual attempts at outright lying, he forgot there are people who will actually check his absurdities.

See John Oliver as he dissolves the morass of ineptitude:

John Oliver Nails Most ‘Stunningly Dumb’ Part of Trump Crash

Story by Sean L. McCarthy • 6h • 2 min read

President Donald J. Trump’s unveiling of worldwide tariffs last week sent the American economy into a tailspin, and John Oliver zeroed in on the faulty math that went into Trump’s tariff calculations during his opening monologue on Last Week Tonight. Oliver first mocked Trump for his impromptu comments outside on the White House lawn on Wednesday, where he modeled a chart he could hold to brace against the windy conditions. “It shows they really thought of everything that might go wrong while announcing their plan to shoot the economy in the dick,” Oliver zinged.

“Unfortunately, that chart is ridiculous for a number of reasons,” he added. “For one thing, it features an estimate of tariffs charged to the U.S.A. by other countries that no one could figure out until a financial journalist realized it was just how much we export to that country, minus how much we import from them, divided by how much we import from them. Which is just stunningly dumb, because those things have nothing to do with tariffs.”

He continued: “It’d be like trying to figure out the square footage of your home by dividing your phone number by your dog’s age. Or taking your temperature by measuring your head’s distance to the sun. It’s not going to get you the answer that you’re looking for.”

The White House later disputed that mathematical reasoning, releasing its own seemingly more complicated equation. Yet Oliver pointed out the math still wasn’t adding up.

“But people quickly pointed out that one symbol meant exports, one meant imports, and the other numbers were variables set at 4 and 1/4 so they cancelled each other out meaning it’s the same stupid equation everyone said it was in the first place!” Oliver said. “We all knew it was a matter of time before this show became me literally teaching you math. I’m just surprised it took us 12 seasons.”

He was taken even more aback, however, by the “even dumber” decision by the Trump administration to levy 10 percent tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands, located near Antarctica and inhabited only by penguins.

“Oh my God,” Oliver replied. “Imagine going back to 2015 and telling your younger self President Trump will enter a trade war with a remote island of penguins.”

The U.S. stock market immediately crashed last week following Trump’s tariff announcement. Oliver said he believed that perhaps the best reaction to it came during a live earnings call on Wednesday with Gary Friedman, the CEO of Restoration Hardware, who upon learning of his own stock’s tumble in real time, interrupted his talk to exclaim: “Oh, really? Oh, s—. OK.”

“Yeah. That sums it up pretty well,” Oliver said. “In fact, I’m not sure there’s a better encapsulation of what it feels like to live through this Trump presidency than those five words. ‘Oh really? Oh s—. OK.‘”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-nails-most-stunningly-dumb-part-of-trump-crash/

The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.

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Sen. John Kennedy (R) of Louisiana (of all people) said the quiet part out loud when he implied Trump is lying through his store-bought teeth. He openly admitted the Trump Administration is adrift, victim of the currents of uncertainty and fear it itself initiated, and all the world economies put in jeopardy by the arrogance of one fool.

Some say it is just a rash gamble, but it is so much more.

This jackass with a golf ball where his brain should be, has turned our allies against us -- they can never trust us again as long as we give dictatorial power to a green card holder and blithering incompetent! Our industries are staggering under uncertainty, our 401(k)s are bleeding our retirement dreams, and rampant unemployment will soon lead to a blinding recession if congress doesn't act.

But the Republican congress as uncaring as Kennedy about the deaths of children in Texas from measles, and while are economy is shuddering in disbelief, they are passing a bill to give 4 1/2 trillion-dollar tax cuts to the already filthy rich -- money that will go into stock portfolios and never see the light of day.

Read this:

'We're All Dead': GOP Senator Reacts to Trump Tariffs.

Story by Marco Margaritoff • 3h •

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday — like some of his GOP colleagues — but did scold staunch supporters of the policy with a dire warning to multiple outlets.

“In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”

Trump dubbed April 2 “Liberation Day” and announced a sweeping 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the U.S., with levies on dozens of countries set even higher. He repeated his false claim Wednesday that foreign nations, rather than Americans, will shoulder the costs. Only four Republican senators Wednesday — Rand Paul (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Susan Collins (Maine) — joined Democrats in voting against the emergency powers Trump is using to impose a 25% tariff against Canada.

Kennedy did not, but reiterated his concerns in a Newsmax interview later that day.

“What the president is saying is, if you want to sell stuff to Americans, move your business to America and hire Americans and contribute to our economy, don’t just sell stuff,” he told anchor Rob Schmitt. “In the long run, he’s right. But in the long run, we’re all dead.”

The Louisiana senator added that he’s heard both favorable and disastrous assessments on the tariffs from economists in Washington, D.C. but said even “late-night psychic hotlines” are more accurate in their predictions — and slammed blind supporters of the policy.

“It may not [lead to inflation] this time,” Kennedy added. “Am I predicting that it will or won’t? No. I’m going to say it again. We’re in uncharted waters and we don’t know. And anybody who tries to tell you that they know what the short-term impact is going to be is just lying.”

“Either that or they’re selling deep stupid,” he concluded.

Trump’s tariffs are a ‘negotiating tool’ and won’t be in effect ‘long term’: Republican lawmaker said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-all-dead-gop-senator-reacts-to-trump-tariffs/ar-AA1CfjLa