OP please post a link, I can't believe they are this bad at math, unless they mean people are now "illegally" crossing out of the US
Edit: this is real, oh myyy! https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/
It's insane that he can just pull random numbers out of his ass and his supporters will keep taking them as fact.
USA has not contributed 3 times as much as EU in support of Ukraine. In fact it has contributed less.
I'm guessing they mean an over 100% increase of the decrease of the period-over-period amount.
It's not necessarily wrong, but it is, in fact, a really, really stupid way of communicating information, which is very on brand of them and their supporters.
Listen, if you have to jump through hoops to stretch the meaning of a phrase, just to raise the idea that the phrase might not be completely asinine, it might be a better use of your time to just let it be. You shouldn't have to do mental gymnastics and word judo just to squeeze a non-obvious semi-literate meaning out of something the leader of the free world said. Don't do their work for them (unless you are being paid to do their work for them, of course... but get paid up front, because they aren't very good about honoring contracts).
if you can do the linear algebra equations necessary to make all these nonsense statements have a glimmer of truth you should emigrate to the EU while you still can
It’s Elon’s DOGE math.
10/10 edit
I guess they might say if you include the deportations it'd be over 100%
Including "self deportations". It is mathematically possible. Unlikely. But possibly.
so now americans are crossing illegally to mexico, right? I can kinda believe it, too.
This is a transcript of a meeting. Those are words that trump did say, but this screenshot is cropped deliberately to hide that fact.
This is one of the typical lies that trump is known to make in speeches. This isn't a whitehouse staff member publishing those words as a written statement the office stands behind.
numbers that nobody has ever seen before
Like eleventeen, thirty-twelve, and all those.
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/
It’s from one of Donald’s word vomit speeches
So... how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?
People trying to get out of the country, I guess
I thought of this one but a deportation or just leaving aren't illegal crossings.... So it wouldn't work!
And trying to get out of the country crossing illegally is still an illegal crossing, so, it doesn't make sense
They're crossing on the opposite direction now
And bringing additional people with them!
I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn't explain the math
For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It's really dumb
Ohhhhhh omg now this makes sense. Thank you!
Deportations
Hint: math
Lowest numbers in a decade.
Which is not the flex they intend it to be.
American refugees trying to enter Mexico and Canada.
If it's over 100%, does that mean he's pushing out people in the US? 🤔
Yes actually, and he's making some crossings super legal to compensate further.
AND we are actually sending our best!
Edit:
"we"/"our" from US perspective. I'm not from the US. Just felt like a lovely wordplay on the "they aren't sending their best"
Friendly reminder: this community has a "No politics or political figures" rule. In the future, please put posts like this in a community like !politicalhumor@lemmy.world.
this is not political at all. beside the fact that the white house is making the joke! next time the white house is funny, I'll post on political humor, sorry
this is most definitely political homie, this is literally referencing politics.
What in the actual fuck.
So people are fleeing the US? That's not the brag you think it is...
If this is real, then that's some North Korea shit right there.
It's real, but it's quoting Trump.
I wonder why so many people think there is something fundamentally different about North Korea and the people there. Sure the media control is a bit tighter, but the same thing is happening there as here, always has been in fact. Media is controlled by the state who are controlled by the elite/wealthy. Because of this, meda lies, they just tune their lies to whoever is watching.
You don't NEED to wall off your nation to make people spout lies for you, to make newscasters and printed headlines tell the population that their leader doesn't poop and that he's 700 years old and shoots money beams from his navel. The people who want to hear it will repeat it with glee and don't want to fact check it, and the ones who don't believe it know enough to be quiet and keep their head down so they can get through the day. The same things are happening here and have been happening here.
i think the whole hermit kingdom we will kill you and your entire family, plus sentence you to forty years for forced labor is going to be a more impactful difference between north korea, and literally anywhere else in the world.
There are a couple fundamental differences between the US and North Korea - in NK, you can't travel without governmental approval and also you get shot if you try to leave.
In the US, you can walk to a different state if you so desire (or drive or fly, but those require gov't ID) and the only thing you need to have if you want to leave the country is paperwork that the other country accepts.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were more fundamental differences between the two countries, but those are two big ones that I thought of off the top of my head.
Step 1: Turns country towards fascism
Step 2: ???
Step 3:
Profit?Genocide?He means by 100%... or he's even more stupid than we ever imagined and we imagined him being pretty stupid
This can't be real, right
It is, unfortunately, real. https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/
Look at the front page, and also great articles such as "Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments" and "President Trump is Leading with Peace Through Strength."
~~Looks like it isn’t real.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-border-crossings-plummeted-in-january/ ~~
I’ve been corrected. Is is real. It makes sense that they were just documenting his word salad.
More permanent copy for posterity: https://archive.is/5YlSS
Yes, no one has actually seen these numbers before.
EDIT: Trump continues to demonstrate that he either doesn’t understand how numbers work or refuses to accept what the numbers represent. How the fuck is there more than 100%? I’m going to comment on this based on the cropped quote, not having read anything else. You can’t have more than 100%. That would mean the crossings at the boarder completely stopped and in addition to that there are people who decided to give up their citizenship or residency status and leave the country. That just isn’t how numbers work.
Or he is just lying completely or refuses to know what is actually happening.
Lol illegal crossings caught / reported. The majority of illegals come over legally and just overstay their vacation, education, work, business, or deplomat visa. Why bother crossing illegally when you can just request a vacation visa or day visa and just disappear into the country. (Yes those without passports will have to sneak across but it's way easier than the Trump administration will have you believe.) Yes thousands get caught but millions go back and forth without. Yes most go back without needing the US government to force them.
I would have thought the number of illegal border crossing would go up - the direction hasn't been defined.
And what official body is in charge of keeping the official record and count of illegal immigrants crossing the border? Seems to me it's most likely DHS and ice reporting and isn't it in their own best interest to inflate the numbers or deflate them to appease the Nazis?
Nobody wants to move to a shithole country I guess.
What percent of immigration is illegal? I'm beginning to suspect Republicans are actually pro immigration (gotta have those slaves) but need to be loudly against it, hence the crackdown on illegal immigrants
wat
What's the link? I'd like to check this page.Fake...WTF... Not fake...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/
It sounds like a crazy person because it's a Trump transcript.
Thank you!
It wouldnt be funny as a fake
...I don't think it's funny either way, to be honest... Just weird.
To each their own, of course.
The Greys. They leave but they mutate and reproduce first.
So what they're saying is that everyone is leaving the US, can't imagine why
Math are hard.
s.
Math are hard but maths is harder. American math is 20% easier than English maths. And yes I have seen that "[UK flag] English (Traditional); [US flag] English (Simplified)" gag.
Don't know what everyone is so worried about. Look at all this bigly progress!! /s
And look how progressive they are, putting a Muskrat in the White House!
(psss....psss...Europe, wanna coordinate a party?)
Lol
Six, seven, eight; lock the gate. One, two, three; turn the key. Thirty, fifty, ten; my dirty shifty friend?
Hmmm, I bet it's 146%
