schmidlap
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Trump was elected with a minority of the popular vote in 2016, because he had hyped himself as a business wizard on his reality-tv gig and elsewhere.
How did that work out for the United States?
Trump was bequeathed an unemployment rate of 4.7% and grew it to 6.7% after his one term.
It had been steadily declining since the end of the Bush Recession when Trump grasped the baton in his pudgy little mitts.
He turned that steady trend around decisively.
In Trump’s final year in office, the U.S. economy shrank by the largest amount in 74 years.
The estimated drop in GDP for 2020 was the first such decline since a 2.5% fall in 2009, during the recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
That had the deepest annual setback since the economy shrank 11.6% in 1946, when the economy was demobilizing after World War II.
On the other hand, under the repeatedly bankrupted casino operator, the national debt soared by $7 trillion.
“I’m the ‘King of Debt’!” he had enthused.
No bravado there, to be sure.
"We don't need no stinkin' books!"
But an exit befouled by pettiness, petulance, prevarications, and incitement to an insurrection against democracy is not only letting the door whack you on the ass on the way out, but attaching a big, flashing neon "Kick me!" sign to it in perpetuity.
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Amidst hundreds of millions of personally-guaranteed loans coming due, banks refusing to do business with him, and other corporate interests (conspiracy crackpot Pillow Boy excepted) avoiding association with him as if he had just had one of his sordid rutting sessions with a bevy of incontinent skunks rather than accommodating bimbos) his various financial improprieties are destined for the courts (those arbiters of justice that just laughed at dozens of his feeble, meritless challenges to democracy that he had tried foisting off on them.)
He could still frolic in those super-spreader jamborees where he leads flocks of red-capped parrots calling for the incarceration of anyone who has upset him, I suppose, but what do you envision for Trump in his dotage?
Please spare me the pissy ad hominens for asking the troubling question Whither Trump?
He has the capacity to put incandescent lipstick on the most unattractive of swine: Witness his dead-man-strutting cake walk in the limited shade under the 1/50th of his "big, beautiful wall" that he had made Mexico pay for, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
I am genuinely interested in the auguries. He's a real pistol, ain't he?
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How did that work out for the United States?
Trump was bequeathed an unemployment rate of 4.7% and grew it to 6.7% after his one term.
It had been steadily declining since the end of the Bush Recession when Trump grasped the baton in his pudgy little mitts.
He turned that steady trend around decisively.
In Trump’s final year in office, the U.S. economy shrank by the largest amount in 74 years.
The estimated drop in GDP for 2020 was the first such decline since a 2.5% fall in 2009, during the recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
That had the deepest annual setback since the economy shrank 11.6% in 1946, when the economy was demobilizing after World War II.
On the other hand, under the repeatedly bankrupted casino operator, the national debt soared by $7 trillion.
“I’m the ‘King of Debt’!” he had enthused.
No bravado there, to be sure.
The Man on the Way Down
Losing a presidential election after only one term is a distinction, losing his Party both the House and the Senate during that one term is an achievement, and being impeached twice (the first time because he pressured a foreign ally to be complicit in his fake smear of a scary political rival, the second time for inciting his goons to attack the United States government because he did not like the result of a democratic election) is certainly a unique accomplishment that earns him a tawdry place in the history books.
"We don't need no stinkin' books!"
But an exit befouled by pettiness, petulance, prevarications, and incitement to an insurrection against democracy is not only letting the door whack you on the ass on the way out, but attaching a big, flashing neon "Kick me!" sign to it in perpetuity.
Nicolas Graf, associate dean at New York University’s Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality. “The biggest hit is going to come from the corporate travel side of it and sending people to Trump hotels. The other piece is businesses that partnered with the Trump Organization on any kind of joint investment. People very likely want to pull out. I don’t think anyone wants to be publicly associated with Trump.”
Does Donald Trump Have Any Real Future in the Hotels Business?
The gold is starting to lose its shine, as Donald Trump steps out of the presidential limelight and faces repercussions for inducing violence.
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Ignoble Prospects:Amidst hundreds of millions of personally-guaranteed loans coming due, banks refusing to do business with him, and other corporate interests (conspiracy crackpot Pillow Boy excepted) avoiding association with him as if he had just had one of his sordid rutting sessions with a bevy of incontinent skunks rather than accommodating bimbos) his various financial improprieties are destined for the courts (those arbiters of justice that just laughed at dozens of his feeble, meritless challenges to democracy that he had tried foisting off on them.)
He could still frolic in those super-spreader jamborees where he leads flocks of red-capped parrots calling for the incarceration of anyone who has upset him, I suppose, but what do you envision for Trump in his dotage?
Please spare me the pissy ad hominens for asking the troubling question Whither Trump?
He has the capacity to put incandescent lipstick on the most unattractive of swine: Witness his dead-man-strutting cake walk in the limited shade under the 1/50th of his "big, beautiful wall" that he had made Mexico pay for, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
I am genuinely interested in the auguries. He's a real pistol, ain't he?
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