Trump didnt nose dive the economy. That was done by Democrats (Fauci/Obama/Biden & their NIH, who funded the Wuhan Lab), Pelsosi who refused to send out stimulus checks, and Democrat governors with all their shutdowns.
And your whole idea is demolished by the fact that your WP article is written in September of 2020 (before Trump's Q3 with 34.8% GDP (highest in US history) and Q4 was a respectable 4.2%.
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