Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“I don’t think a beautiful baby girl that’s 11-years-old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls… They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
— President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, doubling down on his comment that higher prices from tariffs won’t negatively impact families.
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