Donald Trump’s dumpster fire is now official
As much as I blame the 77 million Americans who insanely and inexcusably voted for convicted felon Donald Trump in 2024, I also blame the media for spending 2021 through 2024 pretending that President Joe Biden’s strong economy was a bad economy. The media latched onto post-pandemic inflation (which Biden had under control) and used that to convince the nation that the booming economy they were living in didn’t exist. Once Trump tragically won, the only question was how long it was going to take for the general public to figure out how badly they blew it.
The public’s perception of the economy is largely based on 1) how the stock market is doing, and 2) how the media is portraying the economy. That rarely makes for an accurate picture, but it nonetheless ends up being the picture that the public is seeing. By now everyone in the country knows that Trump’s tariffs tanked the stock market, so that’s strike one against him. Now strike two has happened.
The media has been cautiously shifting its messaging toward “Trump is bad for the economy” for the past few weeks. But still, Trump inherited Biden’s booming economy, and so the media wasn’t going to fully pile on until it became official that Trump had ruined the economy. Now the news is out that gross domestic product fell in the first quarter of the year. That ugly news is going to spread like wildfire – and the other shoe has yet to drop.
If the GDP also drops in two consecutive quarters, that’s officially a recession. So if GDP is down again when it’s next announced three months from now, the whole country is going to know that Trump destroyed the economy in just six months.
Awhile back I wrote that if we could just hold the line and keep Trump semi-contained through the end of his first hundred days, he would likely become more unpopular and thus less powerful after that. The post-hundred day dropoff happens to every President, and Trump is no exception. He’s also more self destructive than most. Now that Trump is past his first hundred days, the media is going more negative and his approval rating is hitting record lows. Once we’re seemingly inevitably in an official recession, he’ll become even less powerful. We just have to keep holding the line against his insane policies and initiatives – and we will.
