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Trump Sees the U.S. as a ‘Disaster.’ The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
The New York Times ^ | Jan. 5, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Peter Baker

Posted on 01/06/2025 2:19:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship. “Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he declared on social media last week.

But by many traditional metrics, the America that Mr. Trump will inherit from President Biden when he takes the oath for a second time, two weeks from Monday, is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001.

For the first time since that transition 24 years ago, there will be no American troops at war overseas on Inauguration Day. New data reported in the past few days indicate that murders are way down, illegal immigration at the southern border has fallen even below where it was when Mr. Trump left office and roaring stock markets finished their best two years in a quarter-century.

Jobs are up, wages are rising and the economy is growing as fast as it did during Mr. Trump’s presidency. Unemployment is as low as it was just before the Covid-19 pandemic and near its historic best. Domestic energy production is higher than it has ever been.

The manufacturing sector has more jobs than under any president since Mr. Bush. Drug overdose deaths have fallen for the first time in years. Even inflation, the scourge of the Biden presidency, has returned closer to normal, although prices remain higher than they were four years ago.

“President Trump...

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"...even if voters remain unconvinced."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell

1 posted on 01/06/2025 2:19:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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I guess thats why Kamala won.


2 posted on 01/06/2025 2:23:29 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
For the first time since that transition 24 years ago, there will be no American troops at war overseas on Inauguration Day.

Except for the ones fighting in Ukraine.

3 posted on 01/06/2025 2:23:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see the NYT as a disaster. And the Washington Post. And the LAT, CNN, MSNBC, etc.


4 posted on 01/06/2025 2:23:51 PM PST by Eli Kopter
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The liberals play the game is that they leave clean up duty the conservatives. It associates conservatives with bad news, while leaving liberals unscathed.

There is no question that they have timed bad news with Trump’s administration.


5 posted on 01/06/2025 2:24:53 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, Peter, it’s a disaster.


6 posted on 01/06/2025 2:30:53 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Numbers Tell a Different Story.

This is of my requests for Trump and a MAGA platform - give America REAL statistics.

Government creation and reporting of statistics has become overtly political

Crime, inflation, real interest rates, unemployment, labor market, health statistics, energy - ALL are manipulated by woke, DC Bureaucrats.

7 posted on 01/06/2025 2:32:10 PM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

good boy, Peter


8 posted on 01/06/2025 2:34:21 PM PST by Third Person
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder if the author likes to “bake” peters in his “oven”.


9 posted on 01/06/2025 2:34:43 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Eli Kopter

The NYT can only see as far as their rectum and things closer, in between. That is what happens when they put their heads up there and refuse to see truth.


10 posted on 01/06/2025 2:35:20 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYT = LOL!


11 posted on 01/06/2025 2:35:49 PM PST by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Didn’t they get the memo from James Carville?


12 posted on 01/06/2025 2:36:05 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Orwell, indeed.

The NYT continues to be under the delusion that anyone outside of manhattan cares what they have to say about anything.


13 posted on 01/06/2025 2:36:21 PM PST by turfmann
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Joe added almost 22% to the national debt or $6.17 trillion dollars in 4 years.


14 posted on 01/06/2025 2:36:52 PM PST by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There are certainly US military targeting ATACMS missile attacks on Russia for starters.


15 posted on 01/06/2025 2:37:10 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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Reality bats last.


16 posted on 01/06/2025 2:37:11 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure. Just ask anyone...anyone who doesn’t live within 100 miles of the coast or in a big city.


17 posted on 01/06/2025 2:38:29 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Disaster is hidden by the lies of the MSM.


18 posted on 01/06/2025 2:38:29 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006ttsee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A laughing stock all over the World! is not a disaster


19 posted on 01/06/2025 2:39:25 PM PST by knarf (Ther )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001.”

LOL

Oh, of course, because Dems always leave things better.

Need we remind them of the little recession that was going on that Fall 2000? Klintoon?

But they never fail to recall W’s little recession in Fall 2008.


20 posted on 01/06/2025 2:39:46 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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