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

[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...

[FreeperCell]

Won everything. Ouch!

[doorgunner69]

Certainly a fart shiffer

[libertylover]

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

Yep! Tagline is still accurate.

[mbrfl]

Lol. Well said.

[Allegra]

[Paul R.]

I do believe our troops in Syria would disagree about not being at war, as they’ve taken “incoming” fairly often. Ditto for our ships in the seas around Yemen, and even the operators of our THAAD system in Israel.

It’s not that I disagree with, for example, keeping ISIS in Syria and Iraq from recovering further. That’s going to be necessary until some local group with less emphasis on global jihad becomes strong enough to keep ISIS down. I would not bet on that in the foreseeable future. So... we need to be honest about what we face and what it takes to keep it down.

[Paul R.]

Excellent point.

[Waverunner]

And Syria, and the Red Sea, and don’t forget the US citizens being held Hostages in Gaza. If it was a Republican administration the MSM would be showing their pictures every night and asking when will they be released.

[Pete Dovgan]

Never crossed the writers of the New York Times that the tax payer numbers are made up nonsense, did it? Biden and the democrats, have zero problem manipulating and conflating figures to show something that later is ‘downward corrected’. It’s so bad, we don’t even know how bad it is. The New York Times needs to go through its writers and its editorial board and provide balance of opinion and start investigating news. Stop carrying the DNC’s water.

[maddog55]

Leftist and the American MSM:

[Lazamataz]

The New York Times has learned NOTHING from the last election.

NOTHING.

[Lazamataz]

Wont even read it. Total BS

I know, I know, I should no longer be shocked, surprised, or annoyed by the over-the-top gaslighting from the Legacy Media.

But, sadly, I am. To me, it looks the New York Times channels their editorial policy through Nancy Pelosi and her utterly insane world-view.

I'm reminded of the old quote: "Everything they write is a lie, including the words 'and' and 'the'."

[Lazamataz]

I take comfort in knowing that by the time the NYT publishes its latest lie and it has circled the world, the ridicule of said lie has circled the Earth sixty times via X and Truth Social.

Excellent point and excellent to hear, Flip.

[faucetman]

Hey, NYT, NO ONE believes you anymore!