trump thinks that Mattel is a country

[LetMyPeopleVote]

trump's senility is showing up every day now

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[jls4561]

1. I'm sure he has Hegseth drawing up battle plans against the Barbie army.

Mattel isn’t worried though. They’ll just monitor Signal to develop a counter plan.

[EndlessWire]

2. Wow.

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Mattel is an American toy maker headquartered in El Segundo. They sell products in something like 150 countries. Trump is nuts. Someone should put that on the evidence list for a guy losing it rapidly.

Where is the Gulf of Mattel, anyway?

[sheshe2]

3. Is Trump willing to negotiate with Mattel's Queen?

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[Baitball Blogger]

4. He must have seen the Barbie movie and figured it's as easy to get to as driving a pink convertible through

pink fluffy open fields.

[boonecreek]

5. I was going to say don't tell him about Marx.

But they went out of business in 1980. I can hear it now, commie toys!

[rickyhall]

6. Miight be a Hot Wheels invassion..

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Maddow Blog-'I don't know': The problem with Trump leaning into his new favorite phrase

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[CatWoman]

8. yeah, I was over on Twitter laughing at his moronic cult trying to persuade us we didn't hear what we heard

they don't like being laughed at

[Disaffected]

9. A good story but I doubt even Trump is that far out of it.

Probably meant to say "company".

[GenThePerservering]

11. "Sanesplaining" - That's exactly what people have been doing with Trump

all along, including the MSM - sanewashing him by saying what they *think* he meant. Let's just go by what he SAYS instead of trying to somehow justify it by cleaning it up.

[Disaffected]

13. Don't complain about "sanesplaining" when you

are doing the opposite ("insanesplaining"?). And, that's not what I "think" he meant, it's (IMO) what the probably is he meant (there is a difference). And no, I'm not trying to clean up anything that Presidense Trump says or does.

[Ms. Toad]

12. That doesn't fit with the rest of his statement -

When he suggests Mattel won't sell one toy in the US. Mattel is a US company.

ETA: I found a longer clip - what he seems to be saying is that Mattel was threatening to leave the US - and if they did, he would put a 100% tariff on their toys (since they would all be imported from wherever they go) so they won't sell a single toy on the US.

[Disaffected]

15. Yes, IMO that is a reasonable interpretation.

And BTW, not "sanesplaining".

[Ms. Toad]

16. There is way too much sanesplaining of his ignorance - BUT

excerpting a statement so that it is devoid of context is just as bad in the opposite direction.

[Johonny]

10. Of course Matel employs lots of people in the US

But he knows nothing about the company. He doesn't even know the CEOs name. He is fucking stupid. Sad really.

[JoseBalow]

14. Malta?

[Hugin]

17. He probably thinks Hasbro is a relative of someone.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Matel is not a country

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. This made me smile