President Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors."We're going to make a couple of tweaks," Trump said of his "one big beautiful bill" during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. "I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat go...

Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.

“We’re going to make a couple of tweaks,” Trump said of his “one big beautiful bill” during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. “I mean, we don’t want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”

“We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let’s say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let’s say Gavin ‘Newscum,’ who’s done a horrible job in California.”

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    so trump is against America. you cant help only half a country and still call your self an American. not in my book. fook you trump.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    He’s a literal traitor.

    Americans are just too stupid to see it in anything but hindsight.

    Assuming the fascists don’t win and rewrite history, he will be considered a traitor in the history books.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      He is objectively the most prolific traitor in American history, and it isn’t even close. He’s literally worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. It’s not even a debate.

    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Terrible idea. That would kill millions and also kill a ton of people that hate Trump. Plus, cut off that area of land for 100s of years. If using nukes weren’t a big deal, they would be used in common skirmishes.

    • atmorous@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I agree with but every state has blue voters too

      The red states don’t have enough blue voters but they do have plenty

    • themadcodger@kbin.earth
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      17 days ago

      I hate that we’re literally funding them to drag us all back to the dark ages since the blue states receive less than they pay in taxes and vice versa with the red.

  • Spiral75@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I live in NC. We have a Dem governor, but the House and Senate are controlled by Republicans. The state has gone to Trump three times. What is his plan with that?

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You want Boston to throw another tea party? They’re game.

    No taxation without representation motherfucker.

  • Pnut@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    He’s going by the books. Everyone should know his next move. Everyone keeps thinking someone else is going to do something about it.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Let me sure I got this right. Your plan is to take states that don’t like you and teach them to be more independent of the federal government, is that correct?

  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    When I say “not my president”, it’s not me refusing to acknowledge Trump’s authority/ being a sovereign citizen. It’s me saying he is acting in a deliberately antagonist way. He sees us as the enemy. He isn’t leading, in fact he’s doing the opposite.

    Here’s what’s supposed to be normal: even if you don’t vote for someone in office, you are still their responsibility. JB Pritzker still has a responsibility to protect Republicans in Illinois. Greg Abbott still has the responsibility to protect democrats in Texas.

  • Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I don’t think he realizes this isn’t the gotcha he thinks. That means the poverty line between the states that already exists is going to get even worse, because they are taxing the lower income brackets even worse.

  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    At this point the blue states deserve it. Every day MAGA isn’t scared to leave their homes is a day you’ve failed.

    Edit: please, downvoters- leave your comment and expose your utter cowardice

    • Kyre@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      This seems to be a strategic engagement inducing comment but I’ll bite.

      One additional piece of obvious information will probably adjust initial impressions of the above comment. So Harris “won” 20 states and Trump 30… so using some napkin math and by looking at that statement on it’s surface (I noticed you didn’t actually make a claim one way or the other) that means… Harris states, on average, generate roughly 30% more GDP than Trump states.

      Edit: Punctuation

      Edit Edit: Harris is 19 + DC and Trump 31 so it’s actually closer to 32-34% (If you count DC or not).

        • Baguette@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          Yup, my point is that red states gdp is being propped up by blue cities. The argument that red states generate equivalent gdp conveniently ignores that the counties in the state that do vote red don’t actually generate that much gdp. Cities are generally blue because the very nature of city life leans blue, and if you take these blue cities out of the equation you’d end up with a fraction of the supposed gdp of a red state.

          And honestly a lot of these supposedly red states would crumble if gerrymandering didn’t exist, but that’s a separate point.