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Salon
Salon
Politics
Amanda Marcotte

Trump's sexist "doll" defense of tariffs

The first time Donald Trump opined about how many dolls a little girl should have, it seemed he was speaking off the cuff, as he often does, about a subject he knows nothing about. During one of his fake "Cabinet meetings" — which are better described as mandatory praise provision from his underlings — Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters.

"Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?" argued the billionaire who flies on a private jet to play in rigged golf games at one of his many estates most weekends. 

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