Gave you every chance.
Here are two more examples of deductive logic.
If a person believes that the God who gives them eternal salvation also commands them to always tell the truth, then there is a high probability that that person will tell the truth.
If a person’s claim to believe in God is only a pretense, then there is a low probability that that person will follow the commandments of God, such as telling the truth.
“Gave you every chance.”
I think there may be people thinking that is some kind of loyalty test regarding our support for Trump, and they want to end up on the winning side of that test.
Remember last summer, with the ‘yield curve’ ‘inversion’, or some crap like that - how CNN spend days promising a recession because one interest rate had dropped 0.01% below another, or something like that, and we always got recessions when that happened. It didn’t make ANY sense then, but half the country thought it was game over for the Trump economy. What causes recessions are DISRUPTIONS to the economy, be it the Arab Oil Embargo, or a huge new round of regulations which cause businesses to divert capital from expansion and upgrades to ‘compliance’, or trillions in horrible loans (thank you Nixon and Bushes).
Unfortunately, this is clearly a disruption with China shutting down. There is literally NOTHING that Trump can do in the very short term. The ships aren’t moving and the goods will not be re-supplied, and I suspect, in the end, it will take several years to fill all of the back orders (think of a $20 condenser fan for your refrigerator...pretty old model, maybe 200 of those fans a year get sold here, but China still makes a production run every few years to keep us supplied...those runs will be the last thing they do when, and if, they get back to ‘normal’ - now you have to throw out a refrigerator and it may be very difficult to replace it...depending on when that fan fails).
So Trump (and others) can add all the ‘liquidity’ they want, print all the money they want, they can tell us all is well, or will be well, maybe even avoid a panic. But, in the end, we have a huge portion of our consumer (and non-consumer) economy about to run out of supplies, and that can only change after the ships start moving, and moving in a way that resembles ‘normal’. Trump can do a lot, but he cannot create fully-loaded cargo ships, if there’s no cargo coming into their ports.