While vacationing at his golf club in New Jersey, President Donald Trump has been fretting about some gloomy economic forecasts — and the effect they’ll have on his reelection chances.
According to the Washington Post, Trump has been calling business friends and financial executives to gauge their reactions. He also has begun peddling the conspiracy theory that the media is skewing the economic data to undermine his campaign.
Administration officials have reportedly not prepared for a recession, worrying that details of any plan would leak and create a negative narrative.
Trump is aware that his consistently strongest polling metric is his handling of the economy, and fears that a recession would hemorrhage his support, per the Post.
I posit that administration officials have also never prepared for a Trump presidency.
I worry about how a recession will affect the US and it’s people. So do most Americans that aren’t raging narcissistic assholes.
Don’t worry, the Dems, as usual, will come in to deal with the disaster of your making, get things back on track to have yet another Rethug in office, rinse and repeat.
That worry did appear to be present in his meandering NH speech. I wanted to see a transcript of it to see how much racist red meat was in it as compared to his ‘send them back’ speech. Even Maggie Haberman was trashing Trump for repeating things in the 2nd hour that he had said in the first and noted that he appeared to have not recalled what he said in the 1st hour (hmmmmmm…in the MSM setting the stage to address Trump’s diminished mental capacity just as the Mooch is going public?).
An economy that is teetering for most observers, and tanking for specific sectors, post-term criminal liability exposure, the prospect of impeachment, and mass exposure of a system of fraud, corruption and lies. Most normal people would resign in that setting. Trump only needs a bit of push to the same imho.
See Josh’s comments on the latest Fox poll. If the economy tanks, it will be a blowout. I hate to wish widespread economic harm but if that is what it takes to take Trump and the Republicans down, bring it on. The long-term impact will be beneficial at all levels.