When the nation’s labor secretary flubs arithmetic while struggling to defend poor employment data, there’s a problem.
In mid-February, as Donald Trump’s State of the Union address neared, Peter Navarro, a leading White House voice on trade and economic policy, told Fox News that the U.S. economy was “perfect.” A week later, during JD Vance’s latest Fox News appearance, the vice president celebrated the “Trump boom” in the economy.
Soon after, the American public learned that economic growth during the first year of the president’s second term reached a nine-year low (excluding the pandemic). Late last week, the latest job numbers were even worse: The U.S. economy lost 90,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate inched higher.
Indeed, the closer one looked at the data, the worse the figures appeared. Trump has been in the White House for 14 months, and during that time the cumulative total is 150,000 jobs. In the last 14 months of Joe Biden’s presidency, by contrast, the American economy added 1.74 million jobs.
Normally running a large deficit acts as a stimulus for the economy, but Trump’s reverse Midas touch is just too strong.
Depends on what the money is being spent on.
If you buy a house, that’s money generally well spent. If you buy hookers and blow, that’s not.
And if you spend it on military grade fireworks, it’s literally watching that money go up in smoke.
I believe the US economy is entering a zombie state, buoyed by corruption and inertia it’s going to continue becoming less and less competitive until something chops the head off.
Like, you can actually pay the administration to blacklist your competitors now. You can pay for favourable laws, or pardons, or exemptions.
There’s going to be no real R&D anymore, and why bother when you don’t need to innovate, the government will just tariff your competition or ban them, or, force them to be “sold” like TikTok.
So why should companies hire staff? Why not lay them all off and save money? You’re not going to get beat by real competition anyways.
There’s going to be no real R&D anymore
I mean US scientists are starting to leave the country. The brain drain is only going to get worse.
I know tech workers leaving too.
I mean US corporations are never one to squander an opportunity to gouge the customer.
Remember the washing machine tariffs that Trump first administration put out? Not only did it raise prices “foreign” washing machines AND dryers, the US companies didn’t bother to update their machines to compete with features or reliability, they ended up cutting factory jobs and RAISING their prices for US made washing machines and dryers to match the tariffed completion.
I mean why let a good opportunity to gouge the customer with your inferior product if the government is backing you?
This was told to them by Reagan, would heed it if a Democrat did it but this time, THIS TIME it will work how we want
Make the recession great again
The economy not only shed jobs in February, it also lost jobs in two of the last three months, three of the last five months and five of the last nine months. (During Biden’s term, there were literally zero months in which the economy lost jobs.)
And this is all before the imminent corrections when the AI bubble pops, which will take us from accelerating tumble to free fall. An astounding feat, given what this administration was served up.
Yeah, good luck polishing that turd, asshole. You were handed an economy that was the envy of the world, brazenly lied about it, and then proceeded to fuck it all up, just as Republicans almost always do.
Trump isn’t struggling with anything. He’s thriving and there’s nothing anyone is willing to do about it.
Convincing people to give him money while having felonies and being known of doing nasty things in the Epstein files and Maga isn’t doing anything lol. Fucking wild timeline.
That’s what I’m saying! To pretend that he is struggling doing anything political is delusional. It looks like he’s physically struggling to exist, but I hope that ends soon. Painfully too.
