Trump is wandering around a restaurant in Iowa ranting about "$18 trillion being invested"

[highplainsdem]

Trump is wandering around a restaurant in Iowa ranting about " trillion being invested"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-27T20:34:51.694Z

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. I hope he's freezing his ass off.

[Emile]

2. 18 trillion dollar tariff tax hike on the back of tax payers.

[misanthrope]

3. The crowd is obviously screened

Because a normal person would laugh at such ludicrous numbers so obviously pulled out of his prodigious butt in the spur of the moment.

[Norrrm]

4. Document the $18 trillion

Who What When Where

[lame54]

7. Follow the imaginary money

[Johonny]

5. Consumer confidence hits new lows

In large part because the president cannot logically talk about his economy.

[progressoid]

6. "Sir, this is a Denny's."

[mwmisses4289]

8. Ye gods, what idiotic parents are letting their preteen daughter near him?!?

[struggle4progress]

9. "We gave a trillion to Elon, and I'm getting a trillion, and we've set aside a trillion

for our mafia hitmen, and ..."

[Totally Tunsie]

10. Iowa has a very high ranking of its sheep population.

Sadly, it's sheeple population must also be very high.

[Jack Valentino]

11. Hope he doesn't run into 'a good guy with a gun'

who just had his SNAP benefits cut off by his 'big ugly bill' !


Sincerely! I think we need the 'big ugly' himself ALIVE
through the 2026 and 2028 elections,
to continue to alienate the majority of American voters
with his big ugly stupid pedophile demented MOUTH!


(I recall overhearing a conversation once between two of my nephews
who had apparently voted for him in 2016---

one said to the other,
'but don't you sometimes wish that he would just SHUT THE HELL UP?!' )

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Expert shreds Trump's 'laughable' $18 trillion boast: 'Can't find it anywhere in the data'

trump's $18 trillion number is pure fantasy.

Expert shreds Trump's 'laughable' trillion boast: 'Can't find it anywhere in the data'

www.rawstory.com/trump-267509...

— Ben Franklin Warned Us (@herobenfranklin.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T14:05:10.635Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675096220/

President Donald Trump and his allies continue to push a claim that he secured $18 trillion in foreign investment into the United States — but MS NOW analyst Steve Rattner brought down the reality hammer on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."

"So the president loves that $18 trillion figure, Steve," said anchor Willie Geist. "But as you point out, even the White House says it's half of that."

"Yeah, that's the incredible thing, Willie," said Rattner. "Obviously you've noticed how he talks about $18 trillion all the time, over and over and over again. But his own website — this is the most incredible thing, his own website only claims credit for $9.6 trillion. And so you'd think they would at least change the website, or he would stop saying it. But no, they don't do either."

"But in fact, there's no real evidence of that either so far," Rattner added. "You can see that this is a total private investment and all the kinds of things the president is talking about. It's been running consistently at about $1 trillion a quarter. And you can see here that it hasn't really gone up much."

This isn't the only false claim Trump has made about foreign investment, Rattner continued.

"First of all, when he says Biden only got a trillion, Biden got a trillion a quarter, $4 trillion a year during his time in office," he said. "The likelihood of the president producing $18 trillion when our total investment is around $1 trillion, it's kind of laughable. And in fact, if you dig into some of the projects that are in this website, you'll see some of them like some things Apple is doing, like the semiconductor plants in Arizona that I mentioned already happening or what happened anyway, and have nothing to do with anything the president has done."