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Rhiannon12866

(231,744 posts) Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:10 AM Mar 22

Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump Commerce Secretary as attacks on agency escalate - Rachel Maddow MSNBC

Rachel Maddow shares video of Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, opining that missing a Social Security check for a month is no big deal and only someone committing fraud would complain about that.

The remarks are only the latest in a series of dramatic moves by the Trump administration that show a lack of awareness or concern about the importance of regular Social Security checks to many Americans' survival. - Aired on 03/21/2025.

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Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump Commerce Secretary as attacks on agency escalate - Rachel Maddow MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 22 OP

Wow 🙄 they have no clue how devastating that would be for people who depend on that money to survive TommieMommy Mar 22 #1

Not to mention, people have worked their entire lives to earn Social Security for retirement Rhiannon12866 Mar 22 #2

Of course that nonplussed 94 y/o mother-in-law also has a son-in-law who is a billionaire. TheRickles Mar 22 #3

Billionaires are seldom descended from poor families. MIL probably has a pretty healthy inherited nest egg. nt eppur_se_muova Mar 22 #5

The casual cruelty, the gloating, the smiling smugness---sadistic. Timeflyer Mar 22 #4

TommieMommy

(1,781 posts)

1. Wow 🙄 they have no clue how devastating that would be for people who depend on that money to survive

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:52 AM

Mar 22

What a piece of 💩

Rhiannon12866

(231,744 posts)

2. Not to mention, people have worked their entire lives to earn Social Security for retirement

Reply to TommieMommy (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:59 AM

Mar 22

Do any of these individuals espousing these devastating plans know any average working Americans??

TheRickles

(2,671 posts)

3. Of course that nonplussed 94 y/o mother-in-law also has a son-in-law who is a billionaire.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:48 AM

Mar 22

He could probably lend her some money to make payments for the rent, medications, food, and other trivia like that, should she run short of cash while waiting for her next Social Security check (like millions of Americans will as Soc Sec gets squeezed further and further). Totally clueless.

eppur_se_muova

(38,770 posts)

5. Billionaires are seldom descended from poor families. MIL probably has a pretty healthy inherited nest egg. nt

Reply to TheRickles (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:41 AM

Mar 22

Timeflyer

(3,088 posts)

4. The casual cruelty, the gloating, the smiling smugness---sadistic.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:49 AM

Mar 22

He throws in an implied warning that if Soc. Sec. check doesn't arrive, anyone who complains should be investigated as a fraudster. Make them wait, watch the old, sick, disabled suffer more. The prospect, if he can imagine what life is like for the less fortunate, probably delights the little POS. Un-damn-believable.

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