'No strategy' behind Trump's Carter-like doll comment: Bill O'Reilly
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() Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said President Donald Trump’s comments about kids having to scale down on toys was not calculated to sound like former President Jimmy Carter, despite the similarities. 

“Donald Trump is not a calculated speaker. He doesn’t sit around with his adviser, saying, ‘What should I say?’ He says anything he wants to say,” O’Reilly told ’s Leland Vittert. 

O’Reilly is referring to Trump’s recent comments saying children can get by with fewer dolls this year if his sweeping tariff policies drive up living costs for families.

“I’m just saying [Americans] don’t need to have 30 dolls, they can have three,” Trump told NBC News. 

The comments appeared to resonate statements made by Carter in the 1970’s on Americans buckling down to lower household costs. 

O’Reilly said Trump might have tried to make a point about how “he would like Americans to sacrifice a little to bring China to its economic knees,” but added “who knows?”

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