I don't know what else to say about the Trump regime other than they have grown more confident they can performatively fabricate and lie with impunity and get away with it. They've become authoritarians - all of them - for they've come to believe in their own power to determine what is true.
liars all if them
Who is this fucktard?! He's either lyin' his ass off or stupid as shit...or BOTH! I fuckin' hate guys like him.
Why don't any other reporters ask Dana Bash why she allows Bessent to lie to her face? They won't ask her because they all do it. Access and ink or camera time is more important to them than telling the truth.
They get away because the host do not do follow up questions with facts. He ran on the price of eggs, and to this day, they are priced higher.
Wait till reality hits them - and all of us - in the face. It will happen. youtu.be/BYQp66l0PPM
reality will hit us in the face long before it ever hits the corporate oligarchy
When stupid people talk about stupid people.
Imminent danger
Give this man a metal. He officially won the "Biggest A## Kisser," award.
I’d be laughing if the impact of their buffoonery wasn’t so sad and hurtful.
Yeah they're more confident because the media keeps letting them get away with their lying.
When you have zero media that stands up to them of course they can do whatever they feel. Media is 50% to blame for this, don't give a fuck what any media person says in response either... You know media is co-operating with Maga!
And the media is not only enabling it, they seem to be encouraging and defending the liars and their lies.
yup ... www.facebook.com/reel/1049113...
They are a bunch of idiots who gets away with lying among the cult and the billionaires who profit of their idiocy. The rest of the country see them exactly for whom they are.
while GOP congress and senate are just as corrupt, as they are complacent and harm their constituents with that BIG UGLY BILL! And allow every illegal, lawlessness this Dictator & regime does! THEY ALL NEED TO PAY IN 2026! THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THE MAGA NAZI’s !
I see there are still people who believe we will have free & fair elections next year...
They've grown more confident because it's working, and they haven't been held accountable in any way.
And just wait for the bullshit tracking stats
At first I thought Trump and Bessent would rival the Great Depression. Now I'm convinced they will surpass it.
I wish Trump would've been in my econ classes at Northwestern. I would've always known there was someone who'd score even lower than me. By the way, one of my professors was Donald Harris, Kamala's father.
“…lie with impunity AND get away with it.” At first sounded redundant then I thought; you couldn’t ever stress enough how thoroughly corrupt this Trump administration actually is.
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When you have people like Dana Bash doing the interview and provides zero pushback or fact checking, can you really blame them for going on and flat out lying when they know they will get away with it? The media in this country is a joke.
The regime that coined "alternative facts"
what i don't understand is why these 'journalists' aren't laughing in their faces when they say this stuff i can't keep a straight face does becoming a large-platform journalist require a lobotomy?
Trump doesn’t know much about economics from what I seen. If he did tariffs would be negotiated thoughtfully. Government cuts would be thoughtful. Layoffs of personnel would be done rationally. He would initiate a fair and thoughtful immigration policy to fuel growth. He only knows Real Estate.
They have crossed into Baghdad Bob territory. The shit coming out of this guy's mouth is laughable.
Omg
Aren't they getting away with it though?
Yep. They sure are.
we coulda had warren, somebody that STILL scares the snark right out of them
Sellout
what a sad pathetic little country
The frequent meetings and calls with Putin and Orbán are paying off. You don't need to be a genius to see why interpreter notes and transcripts were likely destroyed.
Why wouldn’t they when we have the media we do that lets them do it?
They keep being invited on news shows so why would they stop
Denial & delusions of grandeur color all of these sycophants to a disgusting degree.
They get help from the MEDIA companies - They don’t protect the FIRST Amendment!
They know no one is watching. They incentivise us to look away
It's appalling! 🤬
They don't even exclusively use fox for their lies anymore -- they can go on CNN and lie without challenge or pushback now.
Yep not a soul should get their information from MSM. Luckily people have been jumping ship for a while now.
not the people who continue to vote for Republicans, though, which is the problem
Those people are the minority and are a lost cause. Most of the Republican base is online the rest of us. Think Joe Rogan and the podcast bros.
...who are also spreading GOP lies, so clearly the answer is not just "don't watch MSM anymore". the entire media apparatus is in on the grift.
That’s not my point. My point is the media can’t be trusted especially the MSM. I don’t have to tell YOU not to get your info from Joe Rogan. But the media has been a massive problem in all of this on both sides.
No, the problem is that there is no "both sides" to the media. It's all on one side. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Rogan, all the bro-casts... there is no left-wing media apparatus, certainly not one that can compete with the viewership of the right wing.
You’re right. Fact is it’s going to be up to us and us alone. We the people in the street. History has told us that the very near future isn’t going to be pretty. But we’re still the majority.
Sad
How about actual real pushback from the media! Don’t give them a platform if they’re just going to lie. It would be so easy something like: “so, we’re supposed to trust a man who bankrupted six companies instead of the CBO and all the other economists?” Bessent would stammer for long time. /1
I am starting to feel embarrassed for this guy
Do you think they practice this stuff in the mirror before they go on camera?
That's what I wonder.
Also Bessert is a dogs asshole.
Republicans have shown politicians can lie with impunity because they know that the press is terrified of appearing "partisan" and (unlike press in say, the UK) are overly deferential to politicians and rarely push back back forcibly on them, even when what they say is objectively false.
I think both.
The "free press" is complicit
Bessent is probably the biggest Idiot assdiving the other idiot! Omg! When do maga idiots call him god?!! Unbelievable how stupid 49% of the American people are!
We need a new term to describe rule by liars. Pseudocracy perhaps.
History will judge them. And that will not be friendly.
#AmericanMediaIsComplicit
How can you believe anyone who was hired to say nothing but spin and ass-kissing comments? These are NOT serious people.
Bessent has just won the prize for being the most sycophantic, arse-kissing lackey to DJT.
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Always weirds me out when gay folks sell out.
Why wouldnt she say you do realize he has declared bankruptcy 5 times and bankrupted many other businesses besides being convicted for fraud Scotty
because she's in on the grift
She’s a coward.
Is this not fraud of some type? Purposefully lying the public? Is there no recourse that the public has if people are counting on what he is saying to make financial decisions and are harmed is there no creative solution?
Trump‘s so-called “sophistication” is called ChatGPT. He’s using an AI to tell him what to do. And it’s wrong. And so therefore he is also wrong. These people are arrogant jackasses.
He’s so smug
To what end? They are already in power, no pushback from voters. There is no pushback from the courts. From the media. From academia. The only place their lies don't work is the market, and they backed off pretty fast when that happened. Who are they still hoping to convince?
He’s been repeating that ‘100 years’ line like a trained parrot.
@emptywheel.bsky.social has just written a great piece about the difference in how people use language, and how & why the media has been utterly overwhelmed by those who are not using language to describe the world but to reshape it. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/06/s...
That’s called an American dictatorship from your electoral to your courts to your Congress.
Wait, is this State of the Onion?
I agree with Bessent. Trump is an expert in bankruptsies, tax evasion and defrauding suppliers and consumers.
Yes, the most sophisticated since Calvin Coolidge! He certainly presided over a boom! Coolidge left office in March 1929 – what happened next , Secretary Bessent, you complete tool?
Anything to keep printing money for themselves. Whatever it takes. Even if it means wedging his head as far up the syphilitic ass of a man he knows to be a bigoted, unserious, incompetent, illiterate, pathological liar, as he can.
They've gone beyond just making shit up. www.youtube.com/shorts/Wvjf3...
They’re worse than authoritarians 😒
If you listen very closely, you may hear the sucking sound that is Bessent’s lips on Trump’s ass.
And, if the people interviewing the Trumpers don’t push back on their lies and fabrications, viewers and listeners believe it to be true
Look how happy he is lying. Yikes.
Incredible tour de force of lying and bullshitting today from the Treasury Secretary of once great nation….. bsky.app/profile/atru...
so apparently even Republicans have TDS now?
WHY do these men do this to themselves?
At least part of this is because we don't have journalists any more. You know, people who know the subject well enough to call out the bullshit, and aren't afraid to follow up with tough questions. Instead, we have "each side has differing opinions", how can we decide who's right?
Such utter bullshit!
I have to believe that they all sit around and workshop this stuff each morning or at end of every meeting Or continuously Think comedians trying to outdo each other in confabulation or sarcasm Like Ron Burgundy in full crazy mode and never coming out of character
Yeah, only deranged people think taxing things we buy from abroad will make things from abroad more expensive to buy. How silly.
The questions that should be asked of these people is, why are you doing this? You’re teaching your reputation with lies you know nobody believes. You’re a wealthy man, what payoff can there be!?
Everyone pay attention, especially the Democrats. This is the new reality they’re trying to create for us. They didn’t lose the election, it doesn’t matter…. 1/What the polling says. 2/ What the Unemployment Numbers say. 3/ What the Inflation Rate Is. 4/ What the impacts of DOGE cuts are.
5/ What the results of the Medicaid cuts are. 6/ What the effects of the tariffs are. 7/ The inability to accomplish anything meaningful overseas. 8/ That record numbers of Americans in the millions are marching against their administration.
9/ Violence erupting across the country in response to their policies. None of that matters, because we’re doing great…. How do we know?! Because we’re telling you we’re doing great. We’re not lying, all the metric we use to measure the administration are false…..
And Homer continues to get a pass
"Bullshitzkrieg". (Conway)
Calling 57% of Americans deranged!
Don’t you wish a liar’s pants really would catch on fire? Drumpf is ignorant on all subjects.
It’s not that they can get away with the lies. It’s that they realize the media are all conservative and willing to play along, to protect their interests.
And also stocks keep going up so they can just say scoreboard
She should have asked Bessent “Does he understand economics better than you? Have you explained any economic concepts to him, or has he explained them to you?”
The Dumpster? "Economically sophisticated🥳🤣🤣🤪🤯😵💫🤣
Trump knows NOTHING about economics or business, he’s a complete economic illiterate. But then everybody knows this.
The person who went bankrupt 6 times..
Your last sentence is exquisitely worded but simultaneously horrifying in its accuracy
What happens when there are ZERO CONSEQUENCES and limitless resources given to a corrupt narcissist.
Correct… AND where is the organized forceful energized and courageous leadership against this? It certainly isn’t coming from establishment Dems and leaders. If Dem leaders can’t rise to this challenge they MUST endorse those who can. Like… AOC, Mamdani,… it’s existential now. Time to face it.
Dear leader is never wrong about the stuff he makes up.
there is no doubt about it, and @cnn.com are far and away the biggest culprit! The Sunday morning show is a total embarrassment! Come on the show and lie with impunity!!!!
Would Bessent hire 🍊🤡 for his own business in the private sector? If so, 🍊🤡 likely wouldn’t pass background check if position included fiduciary duties, esp. given his checkered business history: 6 bankruptcies, multiple business failures, & criminal convictions on 34 counts of fraud.💁🏻♀️
The orange menace is so sophisticated on economic issues that he doesn't even grasp how tariffs work. Louder for those in the back. The importer pays the tariff, not the exporter.
Yet MSM keeps putting them on the air, keeps interviewing them and letting them lie… how anybody watches this shit anymore is beyond me. And yet, this is a large part of why this country is so dumbed down.
ARENDT: "The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is... Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."
There's has been no pushback on Republican lies for 40+ years in the media. The surprise is that it took the regime this long to figure that out. "Just lie your ass off" is the only WH directive. Because it works.
Has secretary Bessent ever met Trump? Has the esteemed butt kisser ever listened to Trump? What is wrong with this guy? Maybe he got a preemptive pardon for selling his very damaged soul?
Warren is a LAWYER. Trump a failure.
It’s become pure propaganda. Anyone familiar with the real world can see it. That should fucking include media companies platforming said propaganda. People with knowledge of reality are being viciously gaslit while the know-nothings are being programmed by authoritarian propaganda. We are in peril.
Speaking of 100 years I just saw where one very solid market strategist said this is one of the highest risk markets in the last 100+ years!
The mainstream media is complicit. They helped create this. They love it.
They certainly helped create it.
We laughed out loud when he said that
Because there are zero consequences for their lying and the media just publishes their lies without calling them lies.
They’ve discovered that there are no consequences for their lies. The media will let them do it. They won’t be fact checked. It’s a competitive advantage at this point
Wants to be fed chair so Trumps a genius.
If he wasn’t such a dick I would be embarrassed for him. SMDH
Do all trump's mouthpieces go home and tell their children not to lie after they have blatantly lied for a half hour?
This is a direct result of Garland’s catastrophic failure. When Brazil is light years ahead of you in holding an attempted coup accountable you honestly deserve everything that happens to you as a country after that.
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Economically sophisticated? WTF does that mean? Either he's dumber than a box of rocks or he thinks we are.. WE PAY the tariff taxes ffs- and this guy has very little going on so he's just going to slap arbitrary amounts of sales taxes for us to pay if we get anything from any country on his list.
They are Dominionists !! They believe G-d sent them to lord over everything.
Which is the epitome of elitist hubris.
Bessent is an embarrassment. Hope he goes home every night and cries.
Become? No. This is who they’ve consistently shown themselves to be.
I've never seen such a large group of morons running this country in my 64 years! we will be lucky to get out of the next 4 years without a major depression!
You can only truly understand authoritarianism by living in an authoritarian state. You fabricate the truth from self interest.
"Economically sophisticated" in scamming.
Shun the Vichy Media. Shun them.
At least Dana Bash pushes back a little. But they need Daniel Dale fact checking live.
Lying weirdos
Something about the MSM using the Right's lies as the basis for all political discourse (or just outright treating their false narratives as obvious truths) probably made RW grievance merchants feel pretty confident in their chosen paths.
Knee pad manufacturers are running out of stock with this regime.
Maybe more ppl should start filing lawsuit against the media to get their attention of: “Stop lying to the followers”..
2/3 of the people see it for what it is. The question is how do we correct course? In other words; How do we get the phk out of this nightmare? What’s the fix?
By sophisticated he means chaotic and antisocial.
The SC has confirmed it for them. The media refuses to hold them accountable for their lies. No reason not to
He can’t possibly believe that. I mean he’s had an actual career before this. Right?
They haven't become anything, they were authoritarians and fascists all of their professional lives...and now they are in power.
Unfortunately
Dana Bash is complicit in normalizing MAGA prejudice and racism as is CNN CNN had banners just like Fox “Caravan, Border Crisis, invasion” Now we have a concentration camp in Florida, Alligator Auschwitz / Desantis Dachau. Congrats to those who enabled this.
“The last time you were here you lied about XYZ, and every other letter in the alphabet. Just want to let my audience know before we begin.”
TV talking heads refuse to be adversarial. Unless there’s a Dem across the table.
Whoever says the Emperor has no clothes on, will be executed right away.
What jackassary!
The mindless bootlicking, which has become requirement when working for this administration, should be an insult to everyone.
I remember when Savvy Pundits told Americans that Scott Bessent was a sensible and responsible choice for treasury.
Great pushback as always from Dana. She is just flat out not up to the task. @cnn.com please do better.
The “I am the greatest of all time & everything is fabulous!” schtick is on loop in all authoritarian countries, even amid extreme oppression & poverty.
Bessent is full of shit and a sycophant on top of it.
No way we‘re going to have a real mid-term election.
Bash does nothing. This access journalism is the worst.
This was Bessent’s boss flattery in hopes of landing the Fed job.
This is so delusional the guy needs to be medicated.
This creep makes my skin crawl when he speaks. Some said he was the only one there that cared. NOT TRUE.
If interviewers and the media, writ large, held them accountable with tough, factual follow up questions then at least some people would learn the truth. But as it is, they let the lies unchallenged so they can conduct another "interview" next week.
That's the myth of reportorial neutrality, but it's just a disguise for ignorance of the issues, sloppy preparation, and a not-so-secret feeling that the reporters and interviewees all belong to the same social crowd.
100%. We all know things have changed drastically with the advent of social media, cable "news," and the 24/7 barrage of empty punditry but...it does seem there were real reporters with real integrity in times past. The good 'ole days, as it were.
So looking forward to seeing him hanging from a lamppost outside the Treasury Building!
No one stops them. On they go.
