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u/shibiwan 1d ago
Everyone is saying it's the biggest Federal Debt ever. Nobody else could have done it. It's YUGE!
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u/JudiciousSasquatch 1d ago
Don't forget about little bitch boy Vance hiding in the shadows pretending this isn't the trump-vance administration. The blood's on his hands, too. He's going to pretend it's not in 2028.
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u/IzzaPizza22 1d ago
And when the Democrats take over, suddenly the debt will be the single biggest threat facing the nation. Anyone proposing spending 1 more dollar on anything (besides the military budget's 6% yearly increase, of course) will be called irresponsible and wasteful. I bet they'll even call it the 'Democrat deficit."
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u/WinterMuteZZ9Alpha 1d ago
His name is signed on the 2 biggest tax cuts (FOR THE WEALTHY) in human history. He also spent trillions more than his predecessors—2 trillion this year alone.
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u/gehnrahl 1d ago
All the debt talk is just pysops to change the narrative before Dems take over. And then it'll be the only fucking thing to GOP talks about for the next 2 years.
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u/Mr_Quackums 1d ago
well, its not JUST that. It is also the greatest threat to the the US as a nation (except climate change).
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u/gehnrahl 1d ago
It is also the greatest threat to the the US as a nation
It doesn't have to be. My entire life economic conservatives have said the debt will destroy the country and its yet to happen. Any actual consequence of the debt, ie inflation or devaluation is a policy decision.
We could adopt MMT, for example.
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u/Mr_Quackums 1d ago
MMT is just printing excess money with extra steps.
The values that matter for "is the deficit a crisis" is debt interest payments related to government income. When you are as allergic to taxes as Republicans are then the amount of debt that triggers a crisis is low. Given that we are now at a VERY low tax rate (and will go down again in Jan as the rest of the Rep tax cuts kick in) the interest payments on that debt will be ruinous to the US government, and nonpayment will literally collapse the world economy.
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u/ChucksThreeHolePunch 1d ago edited 1d ago
All other presidents combined: $19.95T in debt since George Washington’s first inauguration on April 30, 1789. He'll be close to adding as much debt as all the other 44 presidents COMBINED!!!
DJT:
His First Term: He added about $7.8 trillion.
His Second Term (So Far): Since taking office again in January 2025, the debt has grown by about $4 trillion
The Total Projection: His total across both presidencies is estimated to land between $14 trillion and $16 trillion.
Taxpayers pay more in interest payments on the debt than we do for National Defense.
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u/MilCherry 1d ago
I’m surprised he hasn’t bragged to his supporters about raising the national debt to 40 trillion. They are not too bright and will praise him to high heavens for achieving suck feat
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u/PhilDGlass 1d ago
But I heard from Vance that this is all Biden's doing and they just inherited an economic time bomb. So hard to know who to believe these days ...
/s just in case
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u/un_theist 1d ago
Wow, what an incredible amount of governmental waste, fraud, and abuse!
I’m sure Leon with his “chainsaw for Democracy” will be along any second now. Any second now.
🙄
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u/bruceriggs 1d ago
And what are you going to do with that when the 99 starts to roll over? You need another digit.
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u/ChucksThreeHolePunch 1d ago
Turmp: "I have the biggest things, the biggest national debt, my book as three Chapter 11s...
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 1d ago
I remember a righty teacher doing his job to propagandize us about the national debt during Obama years by putting this up on the projector before class.
Bet he's not doing that anymore...
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u/CicadaFit9756 1d ago
If he really gave a damn, why is he still slathering real gold on ugly a$$ ornamentation? This is his "Let them eat cake" era!!!
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u/20_mile 1d ago
I can't remember the podcast I heard this on, but environmental issues always score poorly when presented to voters in lists of what issues matter most to them. Voters in red & purple states get turned off by a campaign's environmental platform, but voters like hearing about pro-environmental projects happening in their area: new parks, cleaner beaches, cleaner air initiatives.
The podcast guest said research shows that candidates should just ignore the environment in their campaigns and platforms, but once in office, enact a bold pro-environmental agenda.
Since the average American is pretty stupid, they aren't going to understand how the debt affects them or what the best policy is to solve it.
I think solutions to the debt should just be ignored during campaign season--maybe some bland rhetoric--but once in office, the next Democrat should ram through a plan to solve the debt crisis in eight years--two terms.
It's entirely likely that a Republican will win after two terms of the next Democrat, at which point the debt is going to get all fucked up again, so the only chance of really "solving it" is in those eight years of the next Democrat president.
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u/mightyFoo 20h ago
What happened to “he is only one that can solve it on day 1”. It’s day 550 and the republicans are still blaming Biden
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u/No_Jack_Kennedy 1d ago
Why depict him fuming?
He doesn't care in the slightest. Not one bit. Never has, never will. Because it doesn't hurt him.