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The debased and deranged wannabe fascist strongman-for-life Donald Trump’s bizarre, nationally televised speech to the American people last Wednesday night was quite insane.

The wild 18-minute oration was full of absurd and boastful misrepresentations of reality meant to support his ridiculous claim that the United States is entering a new economic Golden Age under his rule:

He claimed to have cut drug prices by 400, 500 or even 600 percent, all mathematical impossibilities. Drug prices would be zero after a 100 percent cut

He claimed to have slashed inflation when in fact the most recent available data shows that the rate of inflation is 3 percent, right where it was at the end of the Biden administration.

He claimed that his tariffs are sparking a boom in factory employment when in fact industrial jobs are declining thanks in no small part to how his tariffs are disrupting the global supply chains on which US manufacturers depend.

He cited absurdly false data to claim that foreign investment capital is pouring into the United States.

He said gas prices are $2.50 a gallon in much of the country and that there are states where its $1.99 even through his own Department of Energy reports an average of $2.90 and AAA reports that no state has an average gas price as low as $1.99.

He absurdly claimed that his tariffs will permit a........

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