Posted on 01/30/2025 2:30:40 PM PST by JV3MRC
Wow, that was quick. The Washington Post has already taken to blaming President Donald Trump for America’s economic woes, except the new data they’re using as the basis of their argument reflected the disastrous Biden economy, not Trump’s.
GDP growth slowed in the fourth quarter of 2024 to 2.3 percent, which was noticeably slower than expected and put a dent into a lot of the media brouhaha surrounding how turbo-tastic Bidenomics supposedly was. But Post economic reporter Abha Bhattarai, desperate to spin this as somehow Trump’s fault, blamed the quirk on the economy getting the heebie-jeebies over his policies, before he even took office: “U.S. economy slowed at the end of 2024 as households and businesses braced for new tariffs.”
Now — and stay with us here — The Post was perhaps too caught up in its latest bout with Trump Derangement Syndrome that it didn’t realize that Q4 covered the period between October-December, which means the reading included data before anyone even knew Trump was going to win the 2024 elections.
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Retroactive blame. Why not.
It would have been better of joe coulda twerked the numbers like he’d been doin.
2.3% yeah right. Just like everything else in this country there is a huge disconnect in what is going on on Wall St/FED GOV and Main street. We have been in a silent recession since Aug 2023 in my opinion.
This ploy the Dems are doing is not playing out there. It’s laughable. They are so desperate.
I suspect the Wall Street crowd will tank the stock market to make Trump look bad. It’s due for a correction, and they want to blame it on Trump. Move your money to bonds.
Vazquez. Figures.
No one.
Lol what’s that supposed to mean?
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