Dolls, pencils, backyard chickens and ‘a piece of broccoli’: The Trump team’s awkward austerity talk
- Posted on January 15, 2026
- By CNN
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Dolls, pencils, backyard chickens and ‘a piece of broccoli’: The Trump team’s awkward austerity talk

Amid the European debt crisis in the early 2010s, a Fox News pundit named Donald Trump warned about a backlash against leaders asking people to tighten their belts.