Inflating away debt is the government’s goal. That is a massive tax on the public.
I support Trump but he has been useless holding the national debt. He is as big a spender as any Democrat president we have ever had. Trump has been a massive disappointment holding debt down during both his terms. I don’t care about Covid — he has been a massive spender.
Trump can’t spend a penny without Congressional authorization. I think the guy is about as fiscally irresponsible as any president in my lifetime, but the biggest problem we face is that our upside-down demographic profile is killing us with massive entitlement spending.