In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump announced that he was revising a lawsuit against The New York Times to include the organization’s polling research, which currently shows him tanking on everything from the economy and immigration to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Covid fucked the economy, not Trump.
It’s hard to argue against because the first part is undeniably true. It’s just that the second bit is bullshit, and you can absolutely double-fuck an economy.
2018 was when he first started doing things that affected the economy. The trump slump was real. He was bugging about the Fed not flooding the economy with money even more (which would have made inflation even worse later on).
Then he completely botched the covid response, allowing it to spread faster and farther and longer, which continued to batter the economy.
Yes, that’s my point. Trump fucked the economy. Covid, including Trump’s response to it, fucked it further.
Trump was fucking the economy well before COVID. His first-term trade war with China was doing serious damage to several different sectors of US manufacturing, pig and soy farmers, and the price of many durable goods.
The problem is that everybody has the memory of a goldfish.