I’ll be honest with you: until recently, I used to lose my patience with people who insisted that the president, any president, could destroy the economy. The US and world economies were far too large, far too complex, for any one person to have that much of an impact. Not even if that person was the President of the United States.
I have changed my opinion recently because of new evidence. I have seen one person, the President of the United States of America, send economic shockwaves around the world. Donald Trump’s tariff policies, and especially the fact that they change day to day and even hour to hour, are creating massive uncertainty, even chaos, in every shop, board room, stock exchange, and hall of government in the world. No one knows what prices will be next month. No one knows if the shelves of stores will be fully stocked next Christmas. No one knows if they’ll have a job at the end of the year.
People are cancelling vacations. Not just people in the United States, but people elsewhere are refusing to come to America after we’ve threatened almost everyone in the world with tariffs, sanctions, and in the case of Denmark, Canada, Mexico, and Panama, invasion and annexation.
Our NATO allies are re-evaluating plans to buy American weapons. China is cancelling orders for Boeing airliners. American whiskey is no longer available in Canadian liquor stores. Do you legitimately think that these things will have NO effect on the US economy?
Ten of the last thirteen recessions have started under Republican presidents. I’ve long been aware of this fact but haven’t had an explanation for it. But for the Make America Great Depression that’s coming under Trump, the reasons couldn’t be clearer.
Donald Trump (I will assume you meant the ‘Sir’ ironically) is destroying the economy. I’m not a Democrat and I’m not pretending. Just presenting the facts.
There is no “Sir Donald Trump.” Even if a foreign power offered that fat pig a knighthood, accepting it would be a clear violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments clause.
(You remember the Constitution, right? That inconvenient document that he took an oath to defend? The one that forms entire basis for his authority? Yeah, that: he really does actually have to obey it.)
Second, there is no pretending. Trump’s ego-driven tariff war along with his mass deportation policy are so absolutely destructive to the US economy that the only remaining question is whether it’s deliberate or done out of sheer ignorance…and the possibility of “ignorance” as a defense is vanishing rapidly with the results of every new decision. He couldn’t be more obviously serving Putin’s interests if the guy’s name was painted on the door of the Oval Office.
