UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President

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It was one of Donald Trump's campaign promises: to open the files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president is six months into his tenure, but the files remain closed. And Trump's connections to Epstein have been the subject of numerous media reports. Could the Epstein controversy be one of the rare issues that has driven a wedge between Trump and his supporters? DW's Washington bureau chief Ines Pohl spoke to some of them in Ohio.

 


If/When Democrats regain control of the Senate, this idiot will be the next “Manchin/Sinema” going against anything the Senate Democrats try to get done.

It’s why Democrats have to get out and vote in full force and get the Senate over 54 seats to override Fetterman and any other idiot who comes out to keep shit from getting done.
 


The Rose Garden was designed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. It’s why he he ripped it out.

Air Force One paint scheme was designed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, that’s why he wants it repainted.

The Kennedy Center is named after President John F. Kennedy, that’s why he wants it renamed after him.

Trump hates the Kennedy’s cuz they are still popular today and still have a popularity rating higher that his sorry Ass and his wife Melania.

He chose RFK Jr. mainly due to his name hoping to score points with Democratic voters…which didn’t work.

Trump is as petty as a teenage Drama Queen.
 

I understand what he's trying to say on one level. But on the other hand, what good does it do to prevent minions from replacing you when you are willing to do what said minions would have done anyway?

You are literally agreeing to spare one part of the city at the expense of another part/group. And he may have come to terms with that, but there's no real way to white wash it.
 
The Rose Garden was designed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. It’s why he he ripped it out.

Air Force One paint scheme was designed by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, that’s why he wants it repainted.

The Kennedy Center is named after President John F. Kennedy, that’s why he wants it renamed after him.

Trump hates the Kennedy’s cuz they are still popular today and still have a popularity rating higher that his sorry Ass and his wife Melania.

He chose RFK Jr. mainly due to his name hoping to score points with Democratic voters…which didn’t work.

Trump is as petty as a teenage Drama Queen.
Kennedy was also the first President in office when major change of American society was happening.
 




They elected him to improve the economy. Instead, Trump destroyed it.​

Jared Ryan Sears
The US economy, once the envy of the world, quickly ground to a halt in a matter of months after Trump took office. It was a predictable outcome, as economists and experts had warned that enacting broad tariffs would lead to job losses and increased inflation.

What is shocking is that, according to 2024 exit polls, the top issue for Trump voters was the economy.

There is nothing about Trump's history that suggests he understands economics. His wealth, aside from the crypto bribes and money he earned from selling subpar, often tacky, products to his supporters, was inherited. Trump's list of failed businesses fills an entire page, and he was convicted of falsifying business records 34 times. His last presidency was marked by the decline of manufacturing in the US, a loss of total jobs, growing income inequality, and rapidly rising debt.

So why did so many people vote for Trump if they wanted a better economy? They've been repeatedly lied to.


Fox News and other rightwing media said that global high inflation was due to Biden instead of the pandemic. When inflation dropped to normal levels faster than our peer nations, the lie was that it was still high. As GDP growth was robust, Fox said the economy was slowing. And while the debt-to-GDP ratio was shrinking, they said it was rising out of control.

The Biden administration didn’t just tackle inflation and the debt; America experienced the longest stretch of low unemployment in over 50 years, high-tech manufacturing jobs came back to the US, and Biden is the only president in history to have added jobs every month of his presidency. No administration is without its flaws, but the economy was not one of Biden’s.

In June 2024, the World Bank wrote:

“There are, of course, notable bright spots in the global economy. The U.S. economy, in particular, has shown impressive resilience. Growth has remained buoyant in the teeth of the fiercest monetary policy tightening in four decades. U.S. dynamism, in fact, is one reason the global economy enjoys some upside potential over the next two years.”
Ayhan Kose, the World Bank’s deputy chief economist, said at the time that “US growth is exceptional.”

By the time the election rolled around, inflation had returned to normal ranges, wages had been outpacing inflation for years, and the lowest earners had seen the largest gains. However, millions of Americans hadn’t adjusted to the higher prices that had become the new normal during the pandemic recovery.

There was also continuous doomsaying from media outlets and podcasters, such as Joe Rogan, about the best economic situation we could hope for, following a pandemic that shut down the world. Millions of Americans became convinced that the strong economy was a disaster in desperate need of rescue.

Enter Trump, who, with the help of Fox News and right-wing podcasters, created a revisionist history of his first presidency and made impossible promises on how he would make America rich. They invented a problem and then claimed to have the solution.

The man who promised a booming economy has destroyed the one we had.

  • There have already been more layoffs in 2025 than in the entire year of 2024.
  • Only 106,000 jobs were created over the last three months. 2024 averaged 186,000 every month.
  • GDP growth averaged 1.25% for the first half of 2025, compared to the 2024 average of 2.8%.
  • Manufacturing jobs are leaving America again after hundreds of thousands were added under Biden.
  • Inflation has been rising for months.
  • Unemployment is on the rise, and ongoing jobless benefits for people who remain unemployed are at their highest levels since the pandemic.
  • Farms are going bankrupt at an alarming rate.
  • Foreign tourism to the US is in decline. Vegas feels empty.
  • The debt is rising faster than last year. Combine that with the significant decrease in GDP growth, and the debt-to-GDP ratio is going the wrong way fast.
  • The US credit rating has been downgraded.
  • Housing costs and interest rates remain stubbornly high.
  • Consumer sentiment is low.
The numbers are so bad that Trump just fired the person responsible for releasing the monthly job totals. Not because the person did anything wrong, but because the truthful numbers show how badly Trump is failing. The authoritarianism everyone had been warned about once again reared its ugly head.

The entire economic mess is because of Trump’s trade war tariffs. He found the fastest way to bring an economy that was powering the world to a standstill.

The debt is increasing while the government does less for us. Critical weather monitoring services are cut, the bureau that protects consumers from predatory and illegal corporations is cut, and healthcare for millions of Americans, cut. So where is that extra debt coming from? All the money flowing to corporations and the wealthy when they already had a massively oversized share of the pie.

The silver lining is that while Republicans are still supporting Trump, independents are not. The midterms will end the complete control the GOP has over Congress, which has allowed terrible bills, such as the “big beautiful bill,” to become law. But it will take a lot longer to fix the economy than it took to ruin it. And Trump will still be in the White House, ready to block any legislation that would address the mess he created, because it would expose his ineptitude.

The modern Republican Party doesn’t know how to govern and doesn’t understand economic policy. All they have are lies, conspiracy theories, and creating culture wars. None of which will help them, as more and more Americans realize how expensive life is becoming due to their failed policies.

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org.../62a41ee3-b385-4f87-bd8b-1f413ef3e73d/content

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-...-will-support-global-growth-of-2-6-this-year/
 
How are you going to agree with someone who just fired the Labor statistics head simply because you dont like the numbers put out????
I have never seen anything like it. Cracka fired someone because he didn’t like the answer. Because my business deals with MAGA’s, they be believing the shit he says.

That’s the wild part to me
 
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