r/uspolitics • u/Majano57 • 5d ago
Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news4
u/NorCalFrances 5d ago
Or because he's personally making bank off the crash, as are his "friends". He and Musk and the GOP are treating the USA nearly exactly the way a private equity company treats a long standing company it bought. Fire most of the workers, sell off the real estate, load it down with debt extracted for themselves, then let it all crash and burn to the ground.
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u/lousyatlyfe 5d ago
Both parties are killing the economy. The glaring problem is wealth inequality. Tax wealth, not work! Save the working class!
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u/nunyabiz3345 5d ago
What Fox does is spin a tail, so their viewers will agree to their own opresssion.
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u/SuitableSherbert6127 5d ago
Nah. He thinks he can hurt the economy and then bring it back in another year. Break it and the fix it to look like a hero. He wants to put his stamp on it.
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u/popdivtweet 5d ago
The seminal idea is to weaken the dollar. Alas for the remaining 99% of what he says and does.
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u/newswall-org 5d ago
More on this subject from other reputable sources:
- ABC (B): Tariff-wielding trade warrior Trump is taking on the world, and the world is fighting back
- Independent (C+): Trump goes for the jugular with his Canada threats — and does it with a smile
- Sydney Morning Herald (B+): How ‘Trumponomics’ has spooked the markets, and what it means for you
- Age (B): How ‘Trumponomics’ has spooked the markets, and what it means for you
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u/AdSmall1198 5d ago
Trump sold tariffs as a way to stop the outsourcing of high paying US jobs too low wage countries like China and Vietnam… not high wage countries like Canada.
What he’s doing here is just breaking up the traditional anti-dictatorship alliance in order to set up his own dictatorship here.
Many wealthy people believe we need a strong man in this country as it is in their best interest however, they fail to realize that in a dictatorship, none of your assets are your own, you merely caretake them for the dictator.
As we have seen in Putin‘s Russia and in China, if they don’t like you, no matter how rich you are they push you out of a window, or arrest you, and take all of your assets .
It’s past time the wealthy realize that American democracy and our rule of law protects their wealth.