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Trump: "I'm in office one day and one of the fake news people looks me in the eyes and said…affordability…They hit me with affordability, and that's the first time I ever heard the word used."

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During his campaign in 2024, Trump talked about affordability all the time. He seemed to know what the word meant then and that it was an issue. If he doesn’t understand it now, it must be another serious example of cognitive decline.

affordable(adj.) 1804, "that can be spared;" 1853, "that can be paid for," from afford + -able. Related: Affordably (1969); affordability (1910). He should have asked Mitch to count years like Mister Ed does with his hoof because Mitch would have heard this word used when he was a teenager in 1910.

Sigh. I wish. There's no way who stands behind him during these events are random. Do they get paid/get gifts? Or are they just addicted to the attention they get? Sigh.

Yeah, they invented it just to torture you, Donny. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest written evidence of "affordability" to a 1910 article in the Indianapolis Star and the trade publication Printers' Ink.

I feel trapped in a crappy comic book plot where the villains really have spiked the water supply with LSD. Only on acid could stupidity at this scale be actually happening. #cmonmidterms

Trump cannot AFFORD to have his cuckservative Rethuglicunts losing the House and Senate .. how about that? . . not to mention that he doesn't have the mental ABILITY to know the definition of the term . . because he is stupid . .

Rotting fleshbag fulla shit say what?! ALWAYS an unnamed journalist "Affordability!", or that random supporter just walking down the street & bumps into him "Sir! You're doing a great job" My favorite: THAT "friend".. you know the one.. that "extremely fat, sloppy, but VERY brilliant" friend. 🥴

He has NO idea what affordability means! HAS NEVER BUDGETED! Has never driven a car or filled up a tank (Can you imagine? He's never taken a road trip with his family or been to a National Park). Has never shopped at a grocery store. Has never had to prepare a meal for hungry kids. He's CLUELESS.

Billionaires likely don’t go to the grocery store making choices of what to eat vs paying bills or healthcare. You don’t know what affordability is because you are not one of the people.

He’s not stupid, this is what.he.does. He plays with words until one works and then everyone goes along. The amount of long think pieces from the last 10 years that just could have said “he’s a bullshit artist whose bullshit spews everywhere” is phenomenal

Trump is a living test case of how much dumb, insulting shit you can say to people’s faces and continue to get support. It’s fascinating and horrifying at the same time.

Can we file a class action suit against Penn Wharton for graduating this moron with a business degree without him understanding how tariffs work or what affordability means?