Trump blames Biden ‘overhang’ after GDP shrinks in first quarter

[quote] Does Trump really think anyone believes that bullshit?

Trump is our god.

It's the only thing we believe.

"Overhang" is an unfortunate word choice when all anyone will be imagining is his giant gut.

It's never his fault, OP. And he's always right. We just have to be patient, jeeeeeeez.

No one with a working brain should be buying any of his nonsense, but here we are.

Too bad Democrats don't get on TV and clearly diagram this colossal lie, with a simple graph an easy to understand stats.

"The Biden stock market was overheated. It's necessary to have a course correction."

"The Biden economy was employing too many people, a lot of them criminal illegals. It's necessary to weed out unworthy people and make them jobless."

"The Biden economy was growing too fast. It's necessary to slow things down so President Trump can make more deliberate decisions to guarantee the coming economic boom."

If my lord and savior says Sleepy Joe Biden is to blame, how dare you question the lord.

Just wait until we make him Pope of the world!

MAGAs believe everything he says.

Drunken closet queens and dui hires, worthless fucks

Only the most diehard MAGAs believe this lie.

MAGA is only 20-30% of the voting population. Even they will reconsider once it starts hurting them personally—which is soon

I’m loving this!! Let it all fucking burn.

You voted for this

[quote] "Overhang" is an unfortunate word choice when all anyone will be imagining is his giant gut.

Not to mention "overcomb"

It's fun watching him flail.

His cult worshippers believe anything he says but ultimately people are selfish and only care about their own pocketbook. And the economy isn’t going to get any better, and the cuts to social services will hurt. Hopefully the American people will learn something.

He knows his gullible shitstain cult followers will take everything he says at his word without question.

I wonder if Trump internally harbors much the same contempt for them as the rest of us do.

Or undertaste.

Sleepy Joe and the Ho destroyed the economy! Mah brilliant President Trump iz trying hard to fix it.

R16 for sure. He’s always hated them. Remember when a guy got shot and killed at his rally and he couldn’t even bother to call the family?

We went from a thriving economy to shit in just three months. We can point to exactly what caused it

the second quarter is only going to be worse, so good luck, don-old

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) writes Trump's next post for him:

LAST YEAR WHEN THE STOCK MARKET WAS BOOMING THAT WAS BECAUSE OF ME BUT NOW THAT I AM PRESIDENT THE PROBLEMS ARE BIDENS FAULT PLEASE CHILL THIS IS GOING GREAT IM MAKING DEALS BE PATIENT SHORTAGES ARE FINE AAAAAHHHHHH

All remaining plausibility for a “Blame Biden” argument went out the window on April 2nd with Trump’s big “I hereby launch the Trump Tariff Wars!!” announcement.

Overhang = Trump's gut.

When the market did well under Biden he claimed it was because the market was already anticipating the return of Trump.

Seems hard to reconcile.

Oh well.

Yay!

r21, so we are on the way to the Trump Recession.

So odd, because most recessions are gifts to Democrats from Republicans.

So far, Trump is very much like Hoover. Self-inflicted wounds. And Reagan, but there are no Savings and Loans to crash.

My, my, what Trump investment strategy could crash banking now?????

He did exactly what the tech billionaires who got him elected wanted and crashed the dollar to make crypto go up. I don’t think he’s thought it through beyond that.

It took a minute but Trump has now given his MAGAs and his Media people the language and excuses they need to defend his disastrous leadership. Just wait. His Media sycophants will set up a who curriculum around the "overhang." You will hear your MAGA Uncle discuss the "overhang" by Thanksgiving and he will believe he is well informed and even...smart.

Weird how the economy was growing under "Sleepy Joe" but now it's shrinking

But the media assured us that Biden was too old and incompetent...

Biden was such a terrible president that the U.S. economy was the envy of the world when he left office. Flash-forward to today's Q1 GDP data:

+0.4% Eurozone

+0.3% Italy

+0.2% Germany

+0.2% Austria

+0.1% France

+0.2% Mexico

-0.3% U.S.

Biden did a better job half-asleep, compared to the stable genius adderall express.

Won't it be fun when the Walmart shelves are empty in a few weeks?

Howard at R5, you forgot to add how great it will be when everyone's kids are working factory jobs just as soon as we get manufacturing back in gear. Except your own kids, who were CEOs before age 30.

Even though he's old and sleepy and has dementia Biden will definitely be responsible for all the shelves being empty!

The corporate media peddled the GOP's talking points about a recession that never materialized, and became so invested in the inflation narrative, that Hell will freeze over before any of them admit Sleepy Joe and Janet Yellen did an amazingly good job on the economy.

Trump and his media co-conspirators pushed the post-truth narrative that the economy was doing as bad in 2024 as it was in 2022. It was not by any means, the economic growth and the stock market were the best they have been in decades. Even inflation had dropped to 2% in 2024. But if that is all the captured listeners hear, that's the view they are going to believe.

Now he’s blaming Biden for the next quarter as well.

Proof of r25

"Sure, all the toys are Walmart cost more, and there's less of them this Christmas. But our Bailey, Kayleigh, and Jaylynn understand that getting more Barbies isn't the way to honor Jesus for His Birthday. Praise the Lord for President Trump showing us all how to live more spiritually-grounded lives as a Christian Nation!"

Bite me, MAGA Mom

Perhaps you won't be able to buy groceries and essentials for your family, but be sure to buy my Trump merchandise and Trump digital cards and crypto.

R31, Hear, Hear!

r31 that's gotta burn, a half-dead, Sleepy Joe Biden lifted the Us economy and their orange jesus tanked it.

Who do you believe: ME or reality?

People said they voted for him because prices were too high. Either they will turn against him when prices go much higher or they will have to admit that wasn’t the reason and they actually voted for the racism. Either way we will know what we are dealing with.

i already know their answer. Their answer is:

jess weight till duh price cums dawn too buy aigs.

"OK are you gonna believe what you see or what I tells 'ya?"

I don't care if I can afford groceries, as long as I can afford Trump Bibles!

I would take demented Joe Biden over the Orange asshole any day. At least Biden had people who were fucking qualified for their jobs running things.

Says it all

He also clarified that anything that happens in the next quarter is Biden’s fault too.

Trump takes no responsibility for ANYTHING.

You can some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can fool MAGA people all of the time.

Is "overhang" a recognized term in economics? If not I'm going to guess he was aiming at the metaphor of a "hangover" and this is another sign of his encroaching dementia.

Trump sure is a quick healer!

No scars on that ear!

Many people here predicted that we'd be longing for the Biden administration 3-4 months into Trump II

He literally could have done nothing but watch TV and stuff his gullet and stuff his dick down Laura Loomers gullet and everything would have been fine and he could use about how amazing his economy is. Fucking dipshit

“We never thought he would fuck up this badly!”

We used to give him blank checques..

The sad thing id: As long as there is some economic good news in October 2026, real or made up, the mid-terms can still be theirs. The US voters are gullible and have no long-term memory.

[quote]Many people here predicted that we'd be longing for the Biden administration 3-4 months into Trump II

Most of us longed for it starting January 20, r56.

R59 Trump was basically laundering money for Putin and Russian oligarchs for over 20 years.

r62, I can't tell you how many times I've posted this through the years.

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The 2016 conversation Paul Ryan wanted to keep private

R63 I thought I had read about this back in the day, but then I hadn't heard about it in many years, so I was wondering whether or not it was a factual news item, or a satirical piece. Nice to know my brain recollects this well.

Why doesn't this greasy turd just stroke out, already.?

R60 Do you really think these idiots can fix things between now and Oct of next year?

Especially when all the problems are being cause BY them.

They're not fixers...they're breakers.

They can do stimulus checks but the shelves will be bare.

R65, I don't want Trump to die because then we'll be stuck with JD Vance

R41 you might just be onto something. Maybe if someone made the argument to Trump that his own loyal MAGA cult will not be able to afford to buy his Trump merchandise and enrich him if he keeps fucking up the economy.

It's funny how his makeup in that phot ends at his eyebrows.

He needs a better makeup artist

We called them “overlays”!

[quote]Most of us longed for it starting January 20

Sorry, R61, I meant to say "that the American people would be longing..."

Trump will NEVER admit to being wrong about anything.

Miss Schumer has sent a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER™️ to the Trump WH. What more do you people want?????

R26 - toxic assets held by private equity firms may be what drags the whole thing into a crash this go-round, aside from the self-inflicted trade war.

Trump was caught peeking when he and Joe were pissing together at the urinal.

Omg, he looks like shit in OP's pic. Who does his makeup?

Guys, there aren’t going to be midterms.

Dumb cunt is nearly 80, what do you expect him to look like?

He does his own makeup. Seriously

That, R56. And Kamala's I can't think of anything I would change! She took a lot of flak for that but why change when things were going reasonably well. Every time Dump opens his pie hole, it costs me thousands.

BTW, I hope you are all prepared to only receive two dolls rather than 30 dolls this year!

Peter Navarro pretty much admitting the tariffs have led to a contraction of the economy... But claims it's a good thing. Really.

[QUOTE]Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now."

Could someone please explain how he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard?

Peter Navarro just knows that he's spouting lies.

Ron Vara....er, Peter Navarro is nuts.

The tariffs were Navarro’s idea! Trump’s demented brain didn’t come up with this scheme on his own

Navarro might be the one handling the details, but Trump's had a hard-on for tariffs for decades.

[quote] Could someone please explain how he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard?

DEI.

Peter Navarro is one of the dumbest fucks ever.

Are we sure it actually isn't Obama's fault? Somebody please look into it.

Oh, wow, r85. I'd never heard about "Ron Vara." Jesus wept. He probably engaged in shady academic practices going waaaay back. Explains a lot.

The re-animated corpse of Ramon Novarro would do a better job than Peter Navarro

I'm in my car this morning listening to the Financial news on NPR and they are talking about Tariffs and South Korea and other countries and they're also analyzing the shit show created by Trump and every other word out of their fucking mouths is "during the Biden administration" this didn't happen, or that didn't happen, or other countries had confidence, or WTF ever. But it waspretty clear t hat things were better during the Biden economy.

[quote]Navarro might be the one handling the details, but Trump's had a hard-on for tariffs for decades.

R87. True; however, there is a big BUT to this story.

Trump wanted a so-called "economist" to agree with him. Trump charged Jared Kushner with the task of finding someone. Jared found such a person by Googling this quack Navarro. That's how they found Navarro. Trump didn't know what he was talking about regarding tariffs. Kushner also had no idea about economics or tariffs. Navarro fit the bill sight unseen. They didn't know Navarro--they just wanted someone who agreed with Trump. It was just pure happenstance, fucking stupidity and complete disregard to know whether these tariff beliefs were sound that Trump via Kushner stumbled upon this bubbling idiot. These people are tanking the economy based on fucking morons.

He'll keep blaming Biden for the next four years while Schumer and Jeffries twiddle their thumbs.

But if you ignore the price increases at the auto dealers and the retail outlets - we're really ahead by quite a margin.

WIN WIN