Summary
Donald Trump declined to rule out a U.S. recession in 2025, citing a “period of transition” due to his trade policies.
When asked if tariffs would fuel inflation, he acknowledged the possibility but pointed to lower interest rates.
Despite stock market volatility, he insisted “you have to do what’s right.” The Atlanta Federal Reserve warned of economic contraction, raising recession fears.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed concerns, predicting strong growth. Trump’s stance contrasts with his past claims that trade wars are “good and easy to win.”
There is one thing I can predict: if Trump’s policies tank our economy. He will blame everyone but himself.
So will his piece of shit voters so never let them squirm their way out of accountability for electing Nero
There are plenty of “leftists” on Lemmy who will say they aren’t to blame though
For real, I’m getting tired of seeing that bullshit
Biden, hunters laptop, DEI, Hilary, assorted transgender concerns.
Didn’t miss any other causes of the upcoming recession?
Edit: tan suits.
- not being Christian enough
- too many people vaccinated
- too many people wearing masks
- no prayer in schools
- violent TV shows/video games
- the gay agenda
- satanic panic
- colored jelly bracelets
- rainbow parties
- migrants hiking to the border
- drugs
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Harry Potter/witchcraft
All pitched by the right as to why our country is off-course.
Don’t forget porn, video games, and not injecting bleach.
It’s Obama’s fault. He shouldn’t have had that Dijon mustard
That’s correlation not causation. We all know the root cause was the tan suit.
There’s an alternate universe where Obama has never owned a tan suit, Harambe is still alive, and President AOC is in office after President Sanders’ retirement…
That’s the universe where the Brooks Brothers Riot didn’t succeed and Al Gore became president.
Recessions are created to sell items to rich people with a discount
America couldn’t forgive Biden for unavoidable global inflation. They better be raging when this totally avoidable and reckless inflation begins.
It’s ridiculous that Biden wasn’t celebrated for avoiding a recession in the U.S. when there was a global recession and analysts were certain we were going to have one here.
The average American saw a year of pandemic and 3 of “recession imminent” with some financial hardships and thought that their life was shit under Biden so he’s to blame.
Fox News is still calling it the tail end of bidens inflation. They’re happy to extend that for 40 years or so.
Depends on how the propaganda mill tells them to feel.
They absolutely won’t because it was always in bad faith
The guy that predicts he’s going to make everything better all the time, every day. “I don’t like to predict things”
This fucking clown.
Well, he ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, didn’t he?
checks notes
Uhhhhh…no.
He removed all doubt that he’s Putin’s stooge. Never mind the war.
Is it too early to call it the Trump Slump?
Trump stock dump
If it crashes, I’m sure it will be Biden’s fault. Also: Kamala’s.
Also, I’m sure Kamala would have been just as bad because something something neocon genocide…
In any case, I think the corporate media would be doing the very least if they called it the Trump Depression/Recession.
To paraphrase the Narcissist’s Prayer, he’s currently moving from “That won’t happen” to “And if it does, it won’t be that bad” and on to “And if it is, that’s not a big deal.”
So expect “And if it is, that’s not my fault” in the not terribly distant future.
From:“THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET,” Trump wrote in an all-caps Truth Social post, “BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP.”
and.
TRUMP CASH vs. KAMALA CRASH!
To: "I DON’T LOOK AT THE MARKET
It’s like if you cut someone off in traffic, forcing them to collide with a large truck. Trump’s the sort of person who won’t stop to help, but will drive off pretending he had nothing to do with it, only to proudly point out “Hey! I was there!” When it makes the evening news.
He’s deliberately causing a crash so billionaires can buy everything up at a dime to the dollar.
He’s admitting that it’s going to happen. What he isn’t admitting to, is that he’s the one at fault for it.
“He puts the ‘if’ in tariffs,” Harry Shearer, Le Show
The US is going into a recession.
The really keen among you probably saw this coming last summer due to the slowing job growth numbers as being inevitable regardless of how the election turned out but this fucker is absolutely making it much more painful than it needed to be.
He’s playing the market. Tank and buy low, then you let the next admin fix it. Plus they can still blame Dems for tanking it.
The US is definitely going to have a recession, I just hope it’s not going to be s full on depression.
Please try to become as self sufficient as possible. I already have laying hens and a salsa garden, I’m going to try for dry beans this year.
I’ve never actually seen Trump think proactively. Perhaps it’s my bias, or perhaps I don’t consider him thinking of his own future as proactive thinking…
Period of transition, huh? Like 4 year period? Then we elect a Democrat that fixes the economy and Trump goes, “That’s my economy!”
The cycle continues…
More like 7 years. Their goal is always to break it so bad it takes a whole administration to fix
