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Trump rips Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman as ‘deranged bum’ after he criticized sweeping tariffs
ny post ^ | Aug. 11, 2025, | Emily Crane

Posted on 08/11/2025 12:13:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin

President Trump blasted Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman as a “deranged bum” after the ex-New York Times columnist was critical of his administration’s tariff regime.

“Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been predicting Doom and Gloom ever since my great election success in 2016,” Trump raged in a Truth Social post late Sunday.

“In other words, he has been wrong for YEARS, as ALL markets have been hitting new HIGHS, and are now higher than ever before.”

“People stayed out of the ‘BEST MARKET IN HISTOY’ [sic] because of this Trump Deranged BUM. Sue them!” he added.

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1 posted on 08/11/2025 12:13:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe PDJT can get some ideas from this sketch by(!!!) Margaret Thatcher:

Yes Real Prime Minister AKA The Thatcher Sketch (1984)

2 posted on 08/11/2025 12:21:11 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: BenLurkin

That simpleton has been dining out on that I’ll-advised Nobel prize for a long long time


3 posted on 08/11/2025 12:23:17 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

very kind description of the klutz


4 posted on 08/11/2025 12:26:31 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: BenLurkin

Krugman is a great comedy writer. I always laugh at his articles.


5 posted on 08/11/2025 12:31:35 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: ScaniaBoy

Nobel Prize is only for Marxists.


6 posted on 08/11/2025 12:32:37 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: BenLurkin

Trump has a point. Its an old joke that it is obvious when Krugman goes off his meds. Also about that Nobel prize while he was at Princeton, clandestine interviews with his then graduate students might be very interesting.


7 posted on 08/11/2025 12:34:28 PM PDT by allendale
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To: bray

Just ask Obeyme.


8 posted on 08/11/2025 12:36:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

“The only economist the doesn’t believe in markets”


9 posted on 08/11/2025 12:38:22 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: BenLurkin

Krugman has often been said to have predicted 25 of the last five recessions


10 posted on 08/11/2025 12:46:54 PM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: BenLurkin

He should have said; look up what pea brain had to say about what I’d do to the US economy prior to my 1st term as President of the United States of America!


11 posted on 08/11/2025 12:57:57 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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12 posted on 08/11/2025 1:03:45 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

That comment shows what a kind gentleman President Trump is
He could have told the truth about Krugman.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 1:44:53 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: BenLurkin

The ferret-faced Paul Krugman, as Rush used to say

Krugman also is a former Enron advisor


14 posted on 08/11/2025 2:28:58 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: T.B. Yoits

Krugman should be ashamed to show his face in public ... and his economic advice is pretty embarrassing too.


15 posted on 08/11/2025 2:37:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: BenLurkin

Krugman’s views on what is good or bad policy or good or bad economics differ with which party is in power. Even if they are the same situation.


16 posted on 08/11/2025 3:34:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: j.havenfarm

Theoretical physics and economics have to be the easiest Nobel prizes to win. Just say anything, attach some complex-looking mathematical formulae to it, and—voila! The emperor’s new thesis. The more incomprehensible, the more the eggheads pretend to understand it, the more they praise.


17 posted on 08/11/2025 4:26:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand thhere we CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

LOL 🤣🤣🤣😆


18 posted on 08/11/2025 4:42:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Kruggie spends all of his time on St. Croix. 15 years ago, Kruggie admitted that his wife ghost-writes his articles.

"Here it is warm, and the days are longer, and the phone doesn’t ring much...

“We first fell in love with St. John,” Krugman says. “It was New York lawyers who’d decided to give up on the whole thing and live on a houseboat and wear their gray ponytails.”

The east end of St. Croix is something of a tourist spot...men with beards and very tanned middle-aged women sitting and smoking in the afternoon.

“The west end is where the whites who’ve gone native live,” Wells says.

Here Krugman wears the same shirt for days, a short-sleeved plaid cotton shirt, and bathing trunks. He sits in the room where they eat their breakfast, which has a long window open to the sea.

First thing when he wakes up... he and Wells will go for a walk on the beach, or they will stroll into Frederiksted and have breakfast at Polly’s, a little coffee shop that serves iced lattes and pretty good egg burritos.

When he has a draft, he gives it to Wells to edit. Early on, she edited a lot—she had, they felt, a better sense than he did of how to communicate economics to the layperson...But he’s much better at that now, and these days she focusses on making him less dry, less abstract, angrier [ ed. note: Sounds desperately familiar ].

Recently, he gave her a draft of an article he’d done for Rolling Stone. He had written, “As Obama tries to deal with the crisis, he will get no help from Republican leaders,” and after this she inserted the sentence “Worse yet, he’ll get obstruction and lies.” Here and there, she suggested things for him to add. “This would be a good place to flesh out the vehement objections from the G.O.P. and bankers to nationalization,” she wrote on page 9. “Show us all their huffing and puffing before you dismiss it as nonsense in the following graf.”"

F both of them into Caribboblivion...

19 posted on 08/11/2025 5:42:10 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Krugman and Rand Paul should team up — two monumental losers.


20 posted on 08/11/2025 6:42:31 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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