This is a hoot. Laura Ingraham did a now-famous interview with Donald Trump this week and the plain fact of the matter is that she tried to lead him into renouncing a lot of what was being discussed. He would renounce nothing. He stood his ground and in doing so ended up finding himself in a much deeper hole than if he had just taken Ingraham’s lead and let her make him sound better. The main issue is of course the economy. Trump believes that he can con America that the economy is peachy keen and that the only real problem is that the Democrats are lying. Unfortunately, the Democrats are not taking money out of peoples’ wallets every week but the grocery stores are. And that’s becoming a painful process.
Under your presidency, Californians are spending over $1,100 more on everyday essentials than they were last year. https://t.co/db3yMjBJoM pic.twitter.com/S3ODjNIJqG
— Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (@RepKamlagerDove) November 13, 2025
I love the way Ingraham phrases it, “Are voters misperceiving their own feelings?” So what does that mean? Are we all going batshit crazy? Is that the issue? We know what we feel but now suddenly we’re not perceiving what we feel? I know I’m feeling screwed at the grocery check out but my issue is that it’s a misperception because the economy is really boffo right now? This is starting to get deep.
Even Ingraham was telegraphing to Trump how clearly stupid this all sounds but he simply was not getting it. He insists that what he says is correct despite reality around him saying it isn’t so. There are economic weathervanes ready to blow clean off the barn, they’re spinning so fast, but Donald wants you to believe it’s a calm and sunny day. Now here’s a gal who’s totally in touch with her feelings and she doesn’t sound pleased.
Michigan woman: The eggs, the milk, everything, even cereal, is ridiculously high.
No one is falling for Trump’s lie that grocery prices are going down.pic.twitter.com/8Z21lHbupx
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 13, 2025
Grocery prices are up and that’s how it is. There is no $2 gas. That is a figment of Trump’s imagination. Insurance costs are going through the roof and we haven’t even seen what’s going to happen with the ACA subsidies. Trump’s trying to lie his way out of this one and he can’t. It’s just not happening. What is happening is that he looks like a crazy old coot doing it.
You’ll enjoy this next clip where Chris Hayes analyzes Trump’s decline in office, coupled with the fact that he just doesn’t know basics. He doesn’t know that a standard mortgage is 30 years. How can any functioning adult not know something that basic? And of course there you have your answer. Trump is not a functioning adult.
Hayes: If you have someone who’s already fairly advanced in years and they’re aging quickly, it can have a real effect.
It’s weird that everyone just stopped applying those two obvious truths to the situation we’re in now, where they elected who also is on an accelerated aging… pic.twitter.com/gURVlIhoVJ
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2025
There is no way that Joe Biden or any other president has ever held office who didn’t know what a mortgage was, as Hayes points out. This is terrifying. Trump does not live in the real world. I’m willing to bet that you could ask him the cost of a pound of bacon or a loaf of bread and he couldn’t even ballpark it for you. Or ask him what the light bill is during the summer in a hot state (say, Florida, where he lives) and he doesn’t know.
Electing the guy from the TV set is the dead worse decision that this country has ever made. And now, a mere ten months into round two of this interminable fight, we see how fast it is all unravelling.
And even if Trump was right, a mortgage was 40 years, I have news for him: A lot of people don’t pay off their mortgage until their late sixties or their seventies, even. So kicking that number up to peoples’ eighties is undoable.
But again, we get back to the central, core issue here: Trump has never made a living. Yes, he screwed around on The Apprentice, which is the only honest money he ever made. He was qualified to be a tabloid game show host actor, I give him that. But beyond his fourteen years in Hollywood, Trump never held a job, never had a work ethic, as you and I understand that term, he squandered money right and left.
He doesn’t know what living on a budget is, or paying rent, or a mortgage, or heaven forfend, realizing that ends can’t meet and then maybe getting a second job or putting in for overtime, as the rest of us do. That’s beyond him. Yet this is the guy who is calling the shots on our economy. By the time he’s done, I fear, he will make Dubya’s years in office look like a fantastic fiscal fulfillment, one to be celebrated. That is how bad this is likely to get.
And Trump cannot stop himself, make no mistake. His *genius* is that he actually believes what comes out of his mouth. And why shouldn’t he? He’s lived a consequence-free life and he’s still doing so because his GOP enablers will back any play he makes, no matter how insane. So look for Trump to continue to make it all up. Unfortunately, this is all a ticking time bomb. It has to blow at some point.
it’s not as if he was a real estate mogul or anything. of course all the peple paying cash to launder their money weren’t getting mortgages.