The potential future president had also told the crowd, “You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true,” before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

“Food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. “We’ve never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent.”

The online response to Trump’s odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, “Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well.”

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      The funny part is that could have edited or deleted that and moved in. His ego required him to double down and make a reference about how some insiders understand the reference.

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      Anyone can fat finger shit into an app.

      The disturbing part was the Redhats sagely nodding along like it meant anything.

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    His brain is clearly broken, but that’s not necessarily just because of his age. He’s always been weird AF.

    Unfortunately, his target demo have a lot of broken brains, too.

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    Let’s give him the extremely stupid benefit of the doubt and say he’s correct.

    Who the hell is he to dictate what people eat?

    If people decide to stop eating bacon because of wind power, that’s their right.

    Freaking weirdo.

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    Fkn Big Wind and their anti-pork agenda. Thank God for Trump, bringing the real issues to the forefront of discussion (big /s)

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    Aaand Denmark the country with the highest degree of wind power in the world, is also the worlds biggest exporter of bacon.

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    He’s clearly referring to the bacon dispensers in every public bathroom that only produce wind when you press the bacon button.

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    I was watching a doc on vat-grown fish. I know other things are coming online for other meats. Hopefully it’s not too far off.

    I just have no idea what all these dumbphucks that tie so much of their cardboard cutout version of a male “identity” to things like performatively eating bacon or rolling coal in their diesel small d energy competency vehicles are going to do with themselves when nearly everything is vat-grown, most of our energy is not from burning carbon, and so on.

    I seriously don’t know what they are going to do. Buy more guns? Lobby dumbasses like donnie to “bring coal jobs back” and gomers like DeSantis to ban vat grown meat in their state?

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    It’s because all the flying pigs are being chained to the ground so that their flapping wings can generate electricity that gets sold to China. Or something.

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    Humorous, but not exactly what he said. However, it was the ramblings of an insane man so who the hell knows where his mind was at. Jibbajabbamasterlocks

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      Actually no one really knows what he said, he started saying that many people no longer eat bacon. Then out of nowhere for a second talked about wind turbines that they dint always produce power, then returned back to food and inflation.

      With that if you would want to summarize the thought he was trying to say what would you arrive at? Of course other explanation is just gibberish, but that isn’t much better.

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    Didn’t the Kroger CEO just testify that they raised prices above inflation rates because they could, based on supply and demand?

    By pointing out high food costs over the last few years, isn’t he saying that unchecked, free-market capitalism is causing the drastic rise in food prices and (he isn’t saying this part) that regulation is what will bring them back down? After all, if you can charge more for a product because of supply/demand, capitalism dictates that is the correct pricing strategy.

    Is this an anti-democrat rant or an anti-capitalism rant?

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      It’s hilarious because he’s trying to repeat the narrative that ultimately allowed Hitler to rise to power and yet he and his handlers are such absolute retards they can’t even do that right.

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    I don’t know about anyone else here but I stopped eating bacon specifically and only because we use wind power in America.

    Like that was the only mitigating favor. THE ONLY ONE!