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'This Guy's Brain Is Gone': Trump Ripped After 'Incredibly Stupid' New Hot Take

The president's latest claim about international trade doesn't seem to
match reality.
Ed Mazza

01/09/2026 08:57am BST

Critics mocked President Donald Trump's strange new economic claim as he insisted that cutting off key trade partners would not only save Americans billions, but would also turn the United States into a "major money
machine. "

Trump began by complaining about the Federal Reserve – America's version of the Bank of England – for not cutting interest rates.

"We should have the lowest interest rates in the world, " he said, then
griped that other countries have lower interest rates "only because of us, because they do business with us. "

He said the United States has the right to fight back with trade
restrictions.

"They would go from a so-called elite country to a poverty-stricken
country, " he said, adding:

"You take certain countries, I don't want to mention any, but countries
that you consider great, and they're paying a half a point. All right? A
half a point. But they make $40 billion a year with the United States. If
they don't make the 40 billion - and we don't need their product, doesn't
have to, we really don't need their product - so we cut off trade with that country, we just made 40 billion dollars, and you do a few countries like
that and we become a big money machine. "

There's a flaw with Trump's logic, however: Americans in most cases still
need to purchase those products, and his tariffs - and retaliatory tariffs from other nations - will make them more expensive.

Trump didn't name Canada during the Oval Office aside, but seemed to have
them on his mind given his escalating trade war with the nation. Trump has accused Canada of "ripping us off for decades" as he defended his newest
wave of tariffs.

Canada, in turn, responded with dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs that will likely hurt U. S. businesses that send goods north.

The result would seem to be anything but the "big money machine" Trump
claimed it would be, as his critics quickly pointed out on X:

Please understand that this is a total moron. That is not a political
opinion. This guy's brain is gone. If you think that this guy is in any way
a leader or remotely intelligent, you are even dumber than he is. https:
//t. co/Oe1nVDOajX
— SK Media (@SpaghettiKozak) September 1, 2026

Extremely not how it works https: //t. co/KrTemXFOXT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2026

This is stupid. That's it. It's stupid. https: //t. co/cqcLflk120
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) September 1, 2026

I stopped trading with my grocery store and saved $600 a month but also I starved to death. https: //t. co/MboQ967d0O
— David Moscrop (@David_Moscrop) August 31, 2026

Idiot and then some https: //t. co/kTZJDStKZ1
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) September 1, 2026

This imbecile has absolutely no clue how an economy works https: //t. co/pjF8iYpJqO
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 1, 2026

This is so incredibly stupid its beyond description. https: //t.
co/6T2p6qemiB
— Spiro's Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) August 31, 2026

Imbecilic. https: //t. co/4cJLmTk03V
— Dean Blundell (@ItsDeanBlundell) August 31, 2026

This pretty much explains the multiple bankruptcies. https: //t.
co/BPQOVUjHHQ
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) September 1, 2026

This is the type of thinking that bankrupted casinos — just in case there
are still people out there enjoying the higher prices, decreased safety,
and long-term financial insecurity of Trump running America like his businesses. https: //t. co/VGd2QwoSuG
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) August 31, 2026

It takes decades upon decades of willful ignorance & never being held accountable to be this wrong. https: //t. co/oOvSGMvfFy
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) September 1, 2026

He's just so smugly, relentlessly, exhaustingly fucking stupid. https: //t. co/hP9mJbUW5F
— LoLNothingMatters (@DastDn) August 31, 2026

There is no question: this guy never took any of his own tests at Wharton.
He knows less about basic economics than a typical third grader. https:
//t. co/fKHuqcxEfj
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 31, 2026

And now you see how he bankruped casinos.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 31, 2026
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