Summary
Trump snapped at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he was willing to inflict amid plunging markets triggered by his new tariffs.
Speaking after a weekend at his Florida resort, Trump dismissed speculation he was trying to crash the market, claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion” and spur U.S. manufacturing.
When asked about a pain threshold for Americans, he called the question “so stupid,” arguing economic “medicine” was necessary to reverse decades of “stupid leadership.”
He insisted the strategy would make the U.S. “solid and strong again.”
It’s very simple. His position is that whatever he does is perfect. If he openly considers the impacts of temporarily weakening the economy, and the consequences that go with retirees losing their homes, for example, he will have to admit imperfection. And he’s such a narcissist that he’s incapable of that. He can allude to some possible temporary badness as long as he doesn’t overly focus on it.
At the same time, because of his broken brain and his narcissism, facts are not facts. Everything is an opinion. Therefore, the reporter was expressing an opinion through their question, and they should have known that his opinion is more important than theirs.