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    “I’m just saying [children] don’t need to have 30 dolls, they can have three, they don’t need to have 250 pencils, they can have five,” Trump said.

    Before it was 2 dolls instead of 30, or a 93% reduction.

    Now it’s 5 pencils instead of 250, or a 98% reduction.

    But more broadly, if I were Trump, I don’t think that I’d be focusing public attention on standard-of-living reductions among American children.

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      2 hours ago

      A man that literally shits on a golden toilet lecturing people about austerity is peak irony, though.

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        Apparently the toilet thing isn’t true, came from a picture of some jeweler’s bathroom.

        https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trumps-golden-toilet/

        Snopes does say that he has “gold-plated sink fixtures in one bathroom on his private jet”, though.

        EDIT: And that jet, ignoring the furnishings, is something like 30 times the price of the jeweler’s bathroom with the gold toilet.

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          You’re actually right. The only gold toilet I’ve ever actually seen was some oil-sheik’s or something years ago, and I conflated it with his tendency to otherwise put gold plating on everything - that image in the New York(?) apartment sprung to mind - and a random comment I saw saying the same thing. Still, whether I used ‘literally’ correctly or not, the irony of a man used to excess preaching the virtues of austerity still stands. Fuck him.