Current Events > Trump Campaign In Panic Mode After He Calls For Cutting Social Security

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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cutting-medicare-social-security-benefits-2024-3

Donald Trump on Monday handed President Joe Biden a gift while calling in to CNBC.

When asked how the US could cut spending and his outlook on handling entitlements like Social Security and Medicare benefits, Trump suggested cuts could be made to the programs, which offer guaranteed financial support to retired and disabled workers.

"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do," Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen in a rambling response to the question that touched on the stock market, oil drilling, and his administration's response to the COVID pandemic.

He added: "I know that they're going to end up weakening Social Security because the country is weak," in an apparent suggestion that the Biden administration would make cuts to the program.

Trump's campaign quickly jumped into damage-control mode, sending out a press release saying that the former president's remarks had focused on "protecting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare" and that he "would get rid of waste and fraud."

But Biden seized upon Trump's remarks just as quickly, telling a crowd of voters in New Hampshire that Trump had said cuts to the programs were on the table. Biden vowed to protect the entitlements more than 70 million Americans rely on.

"I won't cut Social Security and I won't cut Medicare," Biden said, per CNN, adding: "I will protect and strengthen Social Security, Medicare and make the wealthy begin to pay their fair share."

Knock knock

Who's there?

The consequences of our own actions....

Its soooo painful that people hear this and see no wrong and in fact think that he's the best man for the job. Like fuck dammit America is really fucking dumb and ignorant.

Stopping fraud and misuse of Medicare and Social Security? Sure.

Saying you're going to cut it is political suicide.

But did you guys hear? Biden called someone Mitch instead of Rich. Let's ask our panel of experts about the cognitive decline of the president for the next twenty minutes.

And yet people will sadly still vote for trump despite this.

texanfan27 posted...

And yet people will sadly still vote for trump despite this.

Hell, I know people that will vote for him because of this. Some of them on SS and Medicare, because you see their benefits won't get cut because they earned them, it's the "freeloaders" that will lose their benefits.

isn't the amount spent on preventing medicare/social security fraud already several order of magnitude greater than the amount being defrauded?

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The fact that the orange idiot is still in the running is enough to keep freaking out about it. Never stop freaking out about republicans, otherwise idiot voters will think we got it in the bag and not vote like in 2016.

At this point, fuck his supporters.

Why panic?

Anyone who was going to vote for him after everything that has happened is not changing their minds because of this.

Trump reminds me of a monster from mythology that has 5+ mouths and they all have a different voice & are saying different things or contradicting one another. Kinda like a hydra but not as cool & more ugly.

and guess what will happen if trump wins and follows thru with this. will his supporters blame him? no. it will some how be the democrats fault

Mearcstapa posted...

Why panic?

Anyone who was going to vote for him after everything that has happened is not changing their minds because of this.

There are a ton of fence sitters out there that somehow still exist unfortunately.

Hilarious coming from the guy who has spent his entire life defrauding other people, companies, and multiple levels of government.

Humble_Novice posted...

"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do,"

There are dipshits that read this and think it's perfectly fine, but then will cry about Biden being slow with the words he chooses.

LightHawKnight posted...

There are a ton of fence sitters out there that somehow still exist unfortunately.

Im convinced that most of these fence-sitters are just Trump folks playing coy out of embarrassment of being lumped in with his die-hard fanatics.

They will still vote for him.

Trump can't control what he says. For someone who lies every time he opens his mouth he has problem keeping the truth from slipping out.

The man used the word 'entitlements' three times in the same rambling sentence. But please, let's hyperfocus on Biden's questionable mental faculties.

masterpug53 posted...

The man used the word 'entitlements' three times in the same rambling sentence. But please, let's hyperfocus on Biden's questionable mental faculties.

If this were a comedy show/movie he would be purposely written like that because he would have no fucking clue what "entitlements" meant. Instead, it's real life, where he has no fucking clue what "entitlements" mean. lol

My favorite part is right wing pundits trying to convince their boomer audiences that cutting social security is a *good* thing lmfao

Im sad this wont ruin Trumps chances, because seemingly nothing does that, but at the very least this is one more good thing for Biden to run on.

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People already know who Trump is.
And they're still willing to vote for him in droves.
So yeah, we should be freaking out.

el_cheato posted...

isn't the amount spent on preventing medicare/social security fraud already several order of magnitude greater than the amount being defrauded?

I don't know about that. Rick Scott defrauded Medicare for like a billion dollars all on his own.
But don't worry, he was punished severely for this with two terms as Governor and then flipping a Senate seat red :(

Were_Wyrm posted...

Hell, I know people that will vote for him because of this. Some of them on SS and Medicare, because you see their benefits won't get cut because they earned them, it's the "freeloaders" that will lose their benefits.

Ironically, if anyone deserves to have their SS benefits cut, it's his boomer voting base. They're the ones that destroyed the system, and they're set to be the only generation that doesn't face consequences for it.

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This. I shake my head when people panic about the polls right now. Obviously a second Trump term would be a disaster. But as campaign season ramps up, Trump is going to continue to say moronic, divisive things and remind people why they dont want him.

His ridiculous cult is going to vote for him. No one else will. He will get more votes than he should, but without a change before November it wont be enough for him to ooze his way back into the Oval Office.

Mearcstapa posted...

Im convinced that most of these fence-sitters are just Trump folks playing coy out of embarrassment of being lumped in with his die-hard fanatics.

They will still vote for him.

There are a lot of very very dumb single issue voters out there.

Its so funny how politicians know they cant openly support gutting social security but so many of them crave it so fucking badly that they cant keep their mouth shut.

Doe posted...

Its so funny how politicians know they cant openly support gutting social security but so many of them crave it so fucking badly that they cant keep their mouth shut.

Because it is a ton of money that is going to people they deemed 'worthless' the working class poor who aren't even working. Why spend that money on them when they can spend it on the military or better yet tax cuts for billionaires.

Westernwolf4 posted...

This. I shake my head when people panic about the polls right now. Obviously a second Trump term would be a disaster. But as campaign season ramps up, Trump is going to continue to say moronic, divisive things and remind people why they dont want him.

His ridiculous cult is going to vote for him. No one else will. He will get more votes than he should, but without a change before November it wont be enough for him to ooze his way back into the Oval Office.

The thing that keeps me from worrying about polls is the fact that Trump has never cracked 50% and there's a ridiculous amount of undecideds

Like seriously, every poll is basically

Trump - 42%
Biden - 39%

hmnut7 posted...

Because it is a ton of money that is going to people they deemed 'worthless' the working class poor who aren't even working. Why spend that money on them when they can spend it on the military or better yet tax cuts for billionaires.

I think it isn't about the money spent on people so much as the fact that it means people aren't forced to keep working until they die.
That really grinds their gears that the "peasants" might get to retire for any amount of time.

Doom_Art posted...

The thing that keeps me from worrying about polls is the fact that Trump has never cracked 50% and there's a ridiculous amount of undecideds

Like seriously, every poll is basically

Trump - 42%
Biden - 39%

Yep. We are going to be fine. Trump cant help himself-he is going to put both feet in his mouth over and over again between now and November.

We cannot get complacent. Democracy is definitely at stake, and the GOP will do their usual voter suppression/cheating thing (while screaming that everyone else is cheating). And I like Biden more than most, but he is a very flawed candidate. This is far from in the bag, and that is scary when the candidate for one party is multiple indicted, twice impeached, and oh yeah tried to overthrow the duly elected government in front of everyone on national TV. We all need to vote.

But at this point, I am confident about a Biden win in November.

oh boy I hope he comes out and says what he really wants to this would be amazing

would my boomer parents finally listen to me? probably not but it would be difficult for them to spin it

Leader of Leopard-Eating-Faces Party threatens to eat faces, supporters convinced he won't eat THEIR face

If Trump loses even 5% of the White elderly vote, Republicans will get blown out up and down ballot.

....Please proceed Trump.

Trump said the quite part out loud again.

GOP have been dancing around wanting to cut/reduce entitlements since 2016. Paul Ryan back then and Rick Scott now want less money going to safety nets.

Tax cuts for the rich is all the GOP fight for.

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He should. They've both clinched their nominations now. Barring unexpected medical issues or death for either of them, these are the two on the ballot.

It's time to start talking about this stuff. And campaigning on it.

el_cheato posted...

isn't the amount spent on preventing medicare/social security fraud already several order of magnitude greater than the amount being defrauded?

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This absolutely needs to be used in attack ads. And please don't let this get memory holed as soon as Trump does or says something else outrageous. Remind people up until election day that Trump said entitlement cuts are on the table.

Humble_Novice posted...

"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do,"

I can't fathom how much of an idiot you need to be to hear this man toss his word salad around and proceed to think "This man speaks to me".

White, Christian, Elderly Americans:

"I don't care about the lack of seriousness and policy positions."
"I like the bigotry and white nationalism"
"I want more boots on the necks of labor, I'm retired fuck those avocado toast eating young people!"
"All the charges against him are fake news and conspiracies!"
"I'm too old to understand or care about the loss of civil rights."

"But I'll be GROD DAMMED if anyone cuts MY benefits!!!"

right now, payments towards social security STOP after $168k.

so stupid. so if someone has an annual salary of $1 million, they stop contributing towards social security (for everyone) by the end of February each year.

BucketCat posted...

right now, payments towards social security STOP after $168k.

so stupid. so if someone has an annual salary of $1 million, they stop contributing towards social security (for everyone) by the end of February each year.

The problem with your assessment and the inherent reasonable common sense...

Is that it doesn't solely benefit the rich, and working class people can't afford lobbyists.

streamofthesky posted...

I think it isn't about the money spent on people so much as the fact that it means people aren't forced to keep working until they die.
That really grinds their gears that the "peasants" might get to retire for any amount of time.

Kind of the same thing but yeah.

what the poors are getting money, and theyre not even shinning our shoes, cleaning our toilets or working in our sweat shops we need to end that today!

"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do,"

Nobody in history has ever treated the English language worse in terms of badly.

But Hunter Bidens laptop tho

He going to annihilate social services if he gets control