So it turns out that 3% GDP number is something of a red herring

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

DUPE: the Obama & Biden reports on deportation are con jobs , which you apparently have fallen for hook, line, & sinker.

Both of these liars practiced "Catch & Release", calling all summonses issued to illegal aliens a "deportation". Then you dupes who only listen to leftwing media, fall for this jibberish, and then come in here spouting off, as if you had a clue of what you're talking about.

Regarding the trade dealings & economy >>

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[John Edgar Slow Horses]

DUPE: the Obama & Biden reports on deportation are con jobs , which you apparently have fallen for hook, line, & sinker.

Both of these liars practiced "Catch & Release", calling all summonses issued to illegal aliens a "deportation". Then you dupes who only listen to leftwing media, fall for this jibberish, and then come in here spouting off, as if you had a clue of what you're talking about.

Regarding the trade dealings & economy >>

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Yes, it is. Now trump fires the jobs report chief for telling the truth.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

As Crep writes, "The number is artificially high because imports fell sharply, and since imports a subtracted from GDP it makes the number look stronger than it really was. "

Because Creps is a moron.
If we consume the same amount as last quarter, but imports were
$300 billion lower, for example, GDP grew by $300 billion. Not artificial.

It's math, which is why you and Creps are so bad at it.

 

[citygator]

the OP is correct. Every metric got worse in Q2. Even the less imports which drove the Q2 number up is bad for the economy and prices and output.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Because Creps is a moron.
If we consume the same amount as last quarter, but imports were
$300 billion lower, for example, GDP grew by $300 billion. Not artificial.

It's math, which is why you and Creps are so bad at it.

Because Creps is right, Todd. It's a fact. The firing of the labor stats chief in order to falsify the labor records is criminal, just not reprehensible.

The fed now will refuse to cut. Why? No reliable stats.

 

[Lesh]

Stop it Crep... the media has been stumbling all over themselves today trying to find something wrong with today's GDP number... they look foolish and so do you...

The economy is holding up… for now

But on again off again Tarriffs are causing all sorts of underlying problems

Big rebound in GDP masks hidden weakness in the US economy | CNN Business

The US economy expanded sharply in the second quarter as businesses dialed back on imports after stocking up earlier in the year to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But a look under the hood shows an economy that’s sputtering.

amp.cnn.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

the OP is correct. Every metric got worse in Q2. Even the less imports which drove the Q2 number up is bad for the economy and prices and output.

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LOL!
Consumer spending increased by 1.4%. No more fake
GDP growth from government spending. Liar.

 

[Rambunctious]

The economy is holding up… for now

But on again off again Tarriffs are causing all sorts of underlying problems

Big rebound in GDP masks hidden weakness in the US economy | CNN Business

The US economy expanded sharply in the second quarter as businesses dialed back on imports after stocking up earlier in the year to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But a look under the hood shows an economy that’s sputtering.

amp.cnn.com

The Economy is about to take off... the missing link is the high interests rates... but even with that we are better off than last year under the autopen...

 

[Blisterfinger]

The number is artificially high because imports fell sharply, and since imports a subtracted from GDP it makes the number look stronger than it really was. Overall growth is still slower than the previous two years.

So trump is still losing to Biden.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5484219/economy-gdp-tariffs-growth

Trump has never lost to Biden

 

[citygator]

LOL!
Consumer spending increased by 1.4%. No more fake
GDP growth from government spending. Liar.

You dipshit. It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms and 3% a year in real GDP growth over Biden's last two years that was passed to Trump. Again... TRUMP CUT ZERO spending. He added to the deficit by $3Trillion. NO ONE disputes that.

Consumer spending was almost all of that growth.

The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy

Here are five reasons why the U.S. economy was at its best in decades, right before President Trump took office for his second term.

www.americanprogress.org

 

[Lesh]

Trump has never lost to Biden

Ummm… what?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You dipshit. It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms and 3% a year in real GDP growth over Biden's last two years that was passed to Trump. Again... TRUMP CUT ZERO spending. He added to the deficit by $3Trillion. NO ONE disputes that.

Consumer spending was almost all of that growth.

The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy

Here are five reasons why the U.S. economy was at its best in decades, right before President Trump took office for his second term.

www.americanprogress.org

It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms

Yeah, Biden's awesome economy is why Trump won.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Ummm… what?

I'll repeat myself for the brain dead LOL. Trump has never lost to Biden.

 

[citygator]

It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms

Yeah, Biden's awesome economy is why Trump won.

Trump said he'd do better than Biden. So far he's gotten it worse. I'll be happy with a better economy than we had under Biden. My company made historic profit and that resulted in historic bonuses. Is that going to happen for me under Trump? That wont fix his destruction of democracy but at least it will be a fine consolation. What say you?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump is trying to be able to fake the government stats.

Which are going to go bad beginning the first week of September in the reports.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms

Yeah, Biden's awesome economy is why Trump won.

Biden's economy was an unadulterated disaster

 

[protectionist]

You dipshit. It was 6% a year under Biden in nominal terms and 3% a year in real GDP growth over Biden's last two years that was passed to Trump. Again... TRUMP CUT ZERO spending. He added to the deficit by $3Trillion. NO ONE disputes that.

Consumer spending was almost all of that growth.

The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy

Here are five reasons why the U.S. economy was at its best in decades, right before President Trump took office for his second term.

www.americanprogress.org

Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn ? While you're waiting to decide, examine this (Biden) chart showing his 3 recessions from 2022 Q4 to 2025 Q1 two of them consecutive.

United States GDP Growth Rate

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States expanded 1.40 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 over the previous quarter. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States GDP Growth Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and...

tradingeconomics.com

Worst US president ever, especially in economics, which he paid no attention to, other than selling political influence to anybody, anywhere around the globe. How deranged some people are, to actually praise this economic/political disaster.

When I was a Democrat (1968 - 2009), generally, things had to conform at lead to a modicum of reality, before you would talk about it. Now, Democrats will say anything, no matter how ludicrous.

 

[protectionist]

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Yup. That is exactly the clueless look that dupes express, when they suddenly discover what they have been DUPED about (because their leftwing media kept it carefully hidden from them)

 

[protectionist]

Yes, it is. Now trump fires the jobs report chief for telling the truth.

So you think Obama & Biden told you the truth about deportations ?

Instead of inventing a new (more deceptive) way of lying, by saying sort of "true" words, but totally untrue, by virtue of being based on a totally devious, new definition of the criterea.
Summons defined (masquerading) as a "deportation", with the summons recipients STILL HERE IN THE US.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

Yup. That is exactly the clueless look that dupes express, when they suddenly discover what they have been DUPED about (because their leftwing media kept it carefully hidden from them)

take the money and give it back

latest surveys show American's are not buying what trump is peddling