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 guess they might say if you include the deportations it’d be over 100%
Including “self deportations”. It is mathematically possible. Unlikely. But possibly.
10/10 edit
It’s Elon’s DOGE math.
so now americans are crossing illegally to mexico, right? I can kinda believe it, too.
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
Good grief, I thought this post was just a joke, but he actually said it. It’s ok though, his term’s nearly over, right? Right??
Only because the meaning of “term” may change.
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.
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
Numbers nobody has seen before. Lol.
Every Trump action is appearently the best ones ever made in the history of civilization.
If Jesus would come back, he would be second to Trump in how amazing he is.
Second place? Believe it or not, it’s also Trump.
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”
If this is real, then that’s some North Korea shit right there.
It’s real, but it’s quoting Trump.
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.
The joke isn’t political, the joke is math.
It references a hot button political issue, and most of the comments are about politics.
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
So people are fleeing the US? That’s not the brag you think it is…
This can’t be real, right
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
The quote in the picture is definitely from the whitehouse website, its linked below in the comments. Its just not from that article that no one referenced.
Aliens ? Oo someone to do me an ELI5 pls 😅😐
Thanks!
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.
Nobody wants to move to a shithole country I guess.
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