Trump Blames Biden for Disastrous Q1 Economic News: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS’
Trump Blames Biden for Disastrous Q1 Economic News: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS’
President Trump has responded to news of the first contraction of the US economy since 2022 in an entirely predictable manner: blaming former President Biden.
Even after eliminating all those government programs and laying off/firing all those federal employees, Biden still somehow controls the economy!!! If only we could elect a new POTUS to right the ship!!!
Even after eliminating all those government programs and laying off/firing all those federal employees,
the federal government still managed to spend over $200 billion more in BLOTUS' first 100 days than same time frame last year.
While I do admit it's impossible for one administration to improve/fix a nation's economy in one year... But It doesn't take much effort to run a already crumbling economy into the ground. Edit: I'm agreeing with yall. Just like Republicans expected Biden to "fix" the economy in is first 100 days, it's literally impossible. But dumb ass Trump can sure as hell drive a already broken economy right off the cliff in 100 days.
A president has a limited ability to positively affect the economy positively but a vast ability to make it worse.
So Q2 will also be Biden? How about Q3? Biden? Q4?
For being sleepy joe. He sure is awake causing problems for Trump. Mastermind Joe.
Yes, but somehow Q4 2024 was all Trump.
He's obviously in a bunker somewhere with a clone of Hunter's laptop! This is why that Ukrainian company gave Hunter all that money ($3 million ) back when Joe was still VP, they knew in 2013 that in 2025 the people would be stupid enough to re-elect Trump and he would be doing the same thing as the first go just cranked to 11! Joe has been a manchurian candidate this whole time waiting to sabotage Trump to help Ukraine against Trump's handlers. /s
You know, I can see this easily believed by the MAGA faithful. Just has to come from Fox or Newsmax, then it's from God's mouth....to the cults ears.
The enemy is both strong and weak. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Biden is a doddering old fool but at the same time is also a powerful mastermind still managing to wreck the economy despite being out of office.
It actually is kinda Biden’s fault. See, under Biden, the economy actually grew last year, which is why this makes Trump look so bad.
Also, that he ran for 2024, which is at least part of what allowed the current situation...
"Biden is to blame for the economy. If he didn't drop out and then he won the election, none of this would be happening right now, and I wouldn't be blamed." -tRumpo
Also, and perhaps most importantly, that he appointed a do-nothing conservative attorney general who slow-walked prosecuting Trump for the coup attempt (among other things) instead of actually upholding the rule of law.
Trump shouldn't have been able to run in 2024 in the first place because he should've been hanged for treason in 2021.
Normally, I do give the benefit of a doubt for the first year or so of economic news under a new President no matter which party. Policies do not usually have time to have that kind of effect so quickly. It's great when you can point to a President you don't like and say "see, the economy went down", but it usually doesn't work that way.
Not this time. Trump moved so fast to break so much that he gets to own the whole thing. Doubly so when the Fed's predictions had been pointing downward when they had been pointing upward before Trump took office.
It's important to note why he did the tariffs.
It wasn't because there was an economic trade imbalance.
It wasn't because he thought they were unfair.
It was because it is essentially the only non-military weapon he has and he wanted to look powerful.
It was because he wanted to alienate our allies under the direction of Putin.
It was because he wanted to feel like a big man. He wanted to show the world he was a dictator.
It was a selfish, dick-measuring move.
I'm pretty sure it's because he has a hard-on for the gilded age when McKinley was president and virtually all federal income was from tariffs rather than income tax. Trump wants to get rid of income tax altogether, for what I trust are obvious reasons, and replace that revenue with taxation on those who buy products, meaning tariffs. Rich people and corporations will pay essentially no taxes at all, but if you want to buy a car, an appliance, a home, or even food, the price will be jacked up to cover the tariffs he's implementing.
It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of phenomenal wealth, like John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, held tremendous sway over politicians who often helped boost their financial empires.
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country. And then they went to an income tax concept,” Trump said days after taking office. “It’s fine. It’s OK. But it would have been very much better.”
Yep. There is a direct cause and effect here. He owns this shit.
He was handed a GREAT economy and he fucked it all up.
Plus he'd be claiming all the credit if it were better
And triply so when the effects of Trump's shit "policies" were entirely predictable and warned about in advance.
There it is. The one thing he wasn't lying about, there was a bump in stocks after the election.
And only because he said it and some idiots bought it.
As much as he lies there were LOTS of things he wasn't lying about. Mostly incredibly bad and crazy shit that he said he was going to do and is as we speak trying to do!
Why are you bringing facts to a bath salt sniffing party?
When the Trumpers crawl through the rubble Trump has turned their country into, they'll still think "how could Biden ever do this to us?"
That's what they'll be told to think and they'll believe it. It was the Biden Deep Dish State.
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That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- here
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.
With the tariffs being randomly lifted it seems like we're at 'i didn't mean it'
Privately, not publicly. And I think that chart is mostly about what step they are willing to say out loud so far. Since they need outside approval, when they fuck up, which is often, this is the tried and true path to get the least flack from the people they want to be praising them as soon as possible again.
The regular narcissists in your life follow it too, it's practically instinct.
They won't, and will live long comfortable lives with their obscene amounts of money rather than being hanged as traitors like they should.
He mishandled covid leading to lots of extra death and when they wouldn't elect him again he organized a lynch mob to storm the capitol and we all watched both crisis play out live on TV. None the less 94% of those who consider themselves Republicans voted for Trump in 2024. They are absolutely incapable of learning.
If we literally become the nazis and round up and murder millions before Trump offs himself in a bunker they will find a way to blame it on the Democrats and make Trump the victim then vote for someone who venerates him. We literally can't fix them nor expect them to be fixed. We can only work on the folks in the middle the famous persuadable voter eg those too stupid to have a clear position.
honestly, the nazis always had the right idea, just the wrong targets. They should have put themselves in the damn gas chambers.
I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.
I hope that realization comes as quickly as possible.
Yes, comrades, Emmanuel Goldstein has struck again. Obviously this is all his doing.
You know, I made the exact same comment and made the exact same prediction yesterday, while watching their dumbass "first 100 days" press breifing. I would normally say that great minds think alike, however the damn book was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
He completely transparent to us, but the vast majority of Republicans eat this up. A mob of 77 million eager wpuld-be nazis is lending him a lot of momentum, it seems.
Sounds to me like someone is getting a little bit yippie?
I would normally agree with the general sentiment that the POTUS gets both too much value and too much credit for the economy, and that particularly early in a term we are usually still seeing the results of older policy.
Except that in Trump's case he has spent the first 100 days in office implementing policies with nearly universal agreement that there will be an immediate negative impact. Drastic, nonsensical EO's like mandating commerical truck drivers speak English. The tarrif nonsense. Threatening global war with the talk of annexing Greenland, Canada, and Mexico. Etc.
LOL, DUMBASS.
He was handed an economy that was the envy of the world, and now look at it.
What a freaking business GENIUS.
"Nothing to do with tariffs". You have to be a special kind of idiot - donvict-tier level idiot - to buy that. He's fucked this country and fucked it so hard. And we haven't even begun to see the real long-term consequences yet.
I'm sure that if we even still have free and fair elections, that if the Democrats get in power, they'll have to work to pull us out of the ditch, all the while the Fifth Column media will blame the Democrats for not doing it fast enough. Just like the last fucking times. I wish the Democrats would start doing real smashmouth politics if they ever even get one iota of power back. No more of this trying to uphold "norms" by "reaching across the aisle" to the "gentlemen" from such and such state. FUCK THAT NOISE. Obama did that most of his two terms, and kept pulling back a stump when he'd offer them an olive branch. And that's what happened to a right-leaning centrist like Obama.
FFS.
Lmfao this is great. Bet he tries to blame Clinton and Obama and AOC and George Soros next, in no particular order
He's right. When the bulk of tariffs' impact hits, it's going to be much, much worse than it is now.
He's not right.
Giving him the headlines for saying shit like this is, exactly what he desires. Because it works.
Didn't Trump at one point claim Joe wasn't actually doing anything and it was Trump that was running the country in the 2020 term?
Authoritarians always paint their opposition as simultaneously weak and incapable, and strong and manipulative.
Yeah, and a lot of his toothless base thought the same thing, that he "really" won and that Biden was just a puppet there who would step aside for "The Storm" to take all the Big Bad Ebil Liberals/Pedophiles (but in this stupid Qnut narrative, the Venn diagram of pedophiles and prominent Democrats is one circle) off to Gitmo and let donvict reign supreme like the orange god-emperor he was meant to be.
I wish this was from The Onion. They are very, very fucking stupid and they found their perfect match in donvict. If anyone needs to understand just how fucking stupid the base is, one only need to study something like "pizzagate".
Completely predictable. Empty shelves will be Biden too. Massive inflation? Also Biden. Unemployment, interest rates, everything Biden. He has no other play except to blame someone else so that is what he'll do.
Irony is, a lot of his policies existed through Biden's term and just expired recently. Trump is literally blaming himself.
Yep, part of the reason Biden lost is that he didn't make any major changes to economic policy (aside from stuff like COVID-19 relief spending and the Inflation Reduction Act). By not reversing Trump-era polices (let alone making policy in the other direction, to rein in corporate power and reduce wealth inequality), Biden failed to materially improve the economic prospects of the working class and thus left them vulnerable to Trump's demagoguery.
I know it won't change Trump supporter minds, but I wish they would ask what quarter will it get better by? That way there was at least something to track.
You've already used the first envelope Don.
As long as his lies are allowed to spread nothing will get better.
Someone needs to muzzle that dog!
lol bitch got BDS
SAD!
I knew it!
It's pretty simple folks. If something bad happens, it's someone else's fault. If something good happens, Trump did that.
See how liberating it is not having to worry about who is right and wrong? Life is just so much simpler knowing that all good things come from Trump. Ahhhhhhh, zen.
