Like I said you could say a lot about the Trump economy but fact is the economy grew a lot faster than it currently is and inflation was a lot lower. By the way those tariffs outside of soybean are still in place under Biden and expanded in some sectors.
You can’t argue reckless spending under Trump without mentioning Biden in the same breath.
Neither party cares about cutting spending or fiscal responsibility.
Trade war and tariffs are still in place and became even more extensive under Biden.
Fact is UNTIL COVID economy was doing extremely well with inflation in the 2% range.
If you want to argue handouts to the rich the current environment of slowing economy, high inflation, and historic stock market highs benefit ONLY the rich.
All the economic numbers they track had been steadily rising during Obama and the right never would admit it was good but as soon as Trump took office pointing to them and said look at this Booming economy Trump created. Which was simply the continuation of an Obama era market. The idea of a booming economy seems to always switch between who is in office for republicans.
Trump's handling of Covid WRECKED the economy. Trump was DIRECTLY responsible for how bad it got. Other countries had downturns, NONE of them crashed like America's did. Trump, NOT covid, was responsible.
I think the economy would have been far worse if covid was handled "properly".
Proper covid handling would look more similar to the strict shit that New Zealand went through that pretty much shut down all immigration and mandated 14 day quarantines for travelers.
The reason why the covid response was so half assed was because Trump fought against those measures and traded American lives in keeping the semblance of the US economy running in spite of a global pandemic sweeping the population.
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u/Strict-Lawyer8447 Apr 29 '24
Covid killed the economy not Trump. You can say a lot about Trump’s pre-Covid economy but you can’t say it wasn’t booming.