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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 146 points 2 months ago (1 children)

numbers that nobody has ever seen before

Like eleventeen, thirty-twelve, and all those.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] notabot@lemm.ee 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good grief, I thought this post was just a joke, but he actually said it. It's ok though, his term's nearly over, right? Right??

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only because the meaning of "term" may change.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Good news and bad news. Good news, Trump is not the president anymore.. "

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So... how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 117 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People trying to get out of the country, I guess

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[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It's really dumb

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 56 points 2 months ago

American refugees trying to enter Mexico and Canada.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Numbers nobody has seen before. Lol.

Every Trump action is appearently the best ones ever made in the history of civilization.

If Jesus would come back, he would be second to Trump in how amazing he is.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Second place? Believe it or not, it's also Trump.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

OP please post a link, I can't believe they are this bad at math, unless they mean people are now "illegally" crossing out of the US

Edit: this is real, oh myyy! https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing they mean an over 100% increase of the decrease of the period-over-period amount.

It's not necessarily wrong, but it is, in fact, a really, really stupid way of communicating information, which is very on brand of them and their supporters.

[–] gabereal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Listen, if you have to jump through hoops to stretch the meaning of a phrase, just to raise the idea that the phrase might not be completely asinine, it might be a better use of your time to just let it be. You shouldn't have to do mental gymnastics and word judo just to squeeze a non-obvious semi-literate meaning out of something the leader of the free world said. Don't do their work for them (unless you are being paid to do their work for them, of course... but get paid up front, because they aren't very good about honoring contracts).

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[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

if you can do the linear algebra equations necessary to make all these nonsense statements have a glimmer of truth you should emigrate to the EU while you still can

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

It's insane that he can just pull random numbers out of his ass and his supporters will keep taking them as fact.

USA has not contributed 3 times as much as EU in support of Ukraine. In fact it has contributed less.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

It’s Elon’s DOGE math.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago

So people are fleeing the US? That's not the brag you think it is...

[–] saltynachos@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Look at the front page, and also great articles such as "Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments" and "President Trump is Leading with Peace Through Strength."

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments"

Wait, are they confusing "transgender" and "transgenic"?

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 10 points 2 months ago

Yes. Because they are just that dumb.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, they also cut funding to a special education transition program because they think it means libs are transitioning school kids.

[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies."

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

peace through strength Hmmmmm. Where have I heard that before?

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[–] catchy_name@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

~~Looks like it isn’t real.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-border-crossings-plummeted-in-january/ ~~

I’ve been corrected. Is is real. It makes sense that they were just documenting his word salad.

More permanent copy for posterity: https://archive.is/5YlSS

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago

The quote in the picture is definitely from the whitehouse website, its linked below in the comments. Its just not from that article that no one referenced.

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Friendly reminder: this community has a "No politics or political figures" rule. In the future, please put posts like this in a community like !politicalhumor@lemmy.world.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The joke isn't political, the joke is math.

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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago

This is a transcript of a meeting. Those are words that trump did say, but this screenshot is cropped deliberately to hide that fact.

This is one of the typical lies that trump is known to make in speeches. This isn't a whitehouse staff member publishing those words as a written statement the office stands behind.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 15 points 2 months ago

Nobody wants to move to a shithole country I guess.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Lol illegal crossings caught / reported. The majority of illegals come over legally and just overstay their vacation, education, work, business, or deplomat visa. Why bother crossing illegally when you can just request a vacation visa or day visa and just disappear into the country. (Yes those without passports will have to sneak across but it's way easier than the Trump administration will have you believe.) Yes thousands get caught but millions go back and forth without. Yes most go back without needing the US government to force them.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If this is real, then that's some North Korea shit right there.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

It's real, but it's quoting Trump.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

What in the actual fuck.

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

so now americans are crossing illegally to mexico, right? I can kinda believe it, too.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

~~What's the link? I'd like to check this page.~~

~~Fake...~~

WTF... Not fake...

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] gon@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago
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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Lowest numbers in a decade.

Which is not the flex they intend it to be.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

And what official body is in charge of keeping the official record and count of illegal immigrants crossing the border? Seems to me it's most likely DHS and ice reporting and isn't it in their own best interest to inflate the numbers or deflate them to appease the Nazis?

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

So what they're saying is that everyone is leaving the US, can't imagine why

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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He means by 100%... or he's even more stupid than we ever imagined and we imagined him being pretty stupid

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Don't know what everyone is so worried about. Look at all this bigly progress!! /s

And look how progressive they are, putting a Muskrat in the White House!

(psss....psss...Europe, wanna coordinate a party?)

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
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