Jake Tapper doesn't bother fact-checking Rep. Brandon Gill as he lies that Trump "inherited an economy and country that is bankrupt" pic.twitter.com/lajVtrdbEu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 11, 2025
Trump’s Grand Narrative that rationalizes all the chaos and extreme policies is that Biden left him the worst economy since the Great Depression, maybe even worse than that. They are all saying that it was in a massive crisis requiring emergency measures to keep the country from collapsing.
The media is not correcting them and people are all too eager to believe that the price of eggs is a catastrophe and that we must to anything and everything including decimating the federal government in order to bring it down. We are a very stupid country and our mainstream press is not helping.
Trump believes, and not without reason, that he can convince most Americans that up is down and black is white and he may just do it. It’s Bizarro World.
Reality just last fall:
Look what Biden inherited and what he did with it:
And yes, inflation spiked briefly in the wake of the pandemic due to the supply chain being disrupted but look where it ended up: right in the range of where it had been during the previous 10 years. By October it was down to 2.6%. (Let’s see how that holds up with Trump reckless temper tantrums.)
I don’t want to hear anyone agreeing that the economy was in crisis when Trump took over. It is now and it’s all on him, every single bit of it. If he had any faculties left he would have played it cool and had Elon do some “studies” and hold off on the tariffs and he could have ridden the Biden recovery to success the way he rode Obama’s. Instead he’s acting like the demented old man he is and here we are.