Mush for brains

 

Pretty sure stage 4 kills you.  But all he knows is he needs to spout big numbers.

Donald Trump is facing widespread mockery online after making a significant gaffe during a press conference, where he claimed that former President Joe Biden had Stage 9 cancer, a stage that does not exist in medical terminology.

“I think it’s very sad,” Trump said. “Actually, I’m surprised that, you know, the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that’s a long time. I just had my physical.”

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Of course, everything is about him.

Social media users were quick to point out the blunder, questioning both the accuracy of Trump’s statement and his own claims of cognitive prowess. Many speculated that Trump had confused Stage 4 cancer with Biden’s Gleason score of 9, a grading system used to assess the aggressiveness of prostate cancer by examining cancer cells under a microscope.

Adding to the confusion, Donald Trump Jr. had recently tweeted about a Stage 5 diagnosis, another non-existent cancer stage. Most cancers are staged from 0 to 4, with stage 4 indicating the most advanced form, often referred to as metastatic or advanced cancer.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Others came to Trump’s defense. “So he made a mistake. He is not a doctor. The Gleason scale on Biden was 9. Mine was over 10 a year ago. I'm cured. Not everyone is cured. Biden needs to repent and get right with God. Trump is fine, just made an error in a speech,” one person commented.

Jesus and Trump. Their heroic leaders.

Speaking of Junior, does he think Jill Biden is a medical doctor?

Yes, he's pissing on you and telling you it's raining.

If there’s one thing Donald Trump loves more than a deal, it’s the announcement of a deal, the part where he comes before the cameras in triumph to tell the world that through his superhuman negotiating skills he has secured an agreement that will bring a future of unfathomable riches to all Americans.

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I don't know. Does he ever actually say it's for all Americans?

There may never have been a better case study of this than Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East. During the tour, Trump repeatedly touted the enormous deals he supposedly obtained from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, but an examination of those and some other recent deals he has announced — all portrayed as new investments pouring into the American economy — shows them to be largely a mirage.

We’re the marks, and the suspiciously large dollar number is the centerpiece of the con.

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First, as the Washington Post noted, many of the deals the Trump administration has been claiming credit for from this trip were actually inked under the Biden administration, and some are absurdly exaggerated to boot.

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And according to one source who spoke to the Post, the Saudi government contacted “all the top businessmen” in the country and asked how much business they have in the United States, so it could add up the numbers and present them to Trump for him to announce as though they represented new investments.

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“So a lot of what’s being announced is probably stuff that they already are doing or were going to do anyway.”

Many of the figures were provided with few details, and even if they do materialize, it would have to be over the course of years or even decades.

Consider the money supposedly pouring in from Qatar. Somewhat confusingly, the administration says Trump “signed an agreement with Qatar to generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion. President Trump also announced economic deals totaling more than $243.5 billion between the United States and Qatar.” So is it $1.2 trillion or $243.5 billion? It’s impossible to tell.

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n the coverage of the Stargate announcement, the $500 billion figure was in all the headlines: “Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US” (CNN); “Trump highlights partnership investing $500 billion in AI” (AP); “Trump tech agenda begins with $500B private AI plan and cuts to regulation” (Washington Post).

But the figure is imaginary. OpenAI and SoftBank have pledged to spend just $19 billion each on Stargate, which neither company appears to have lying around at the moment, so even that will still have to be mostly raised or borrowed.

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There is only one Stargate location under construction, in Texas. Data centers create a fair number of jobs during the building phase — in April there were around 2,000 workers erecting the project — but once the center is operational, that number drops precipitously. The Stargate facility will reportedly employ only about 100 people long term. [Trump claimed there will be 100,000 jobs created in this deal "almost immediately."]

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Trump has put on versions of this show many times, and the same pattern always recurs: He makes a splashy announcement which receives credulous coverage, then most reporters move on and don’t follow up to see whether the dramatic dollar figure he announced actually panned out.

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It’s fitting that so many of the recent iterations of this technique revolve around artificial intelligence.

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AI is a perfect vehicle for this brand of chicanery because so much of it is built on hype: absurdly optimistic predictions about the future, mind-boggling numbers that its boosters discourage us from interrogating too closely, and assurances that beneficial economic transformation is upon us, far sooner than any reasonable person believes. Trump may not be able to tell you what AI is, but he knows like-minded hype artists when he sees them.

And when they all get together — whether it’s American tech barons looking to raise billions, or Gulf sheiks eager to get their hands on computer chips — we should start from the assumption that when Trump throws out a mind-boggling dollar figure that will supposedly be spent in the American economy, it’s just smoke and mirrors.