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Trump Just Humiliated Himself With Bitter, Angry Screaming Post on Truth Social That Has Everyone Laughing

Guess who he thinks is responsible for the good news.

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Donald Trump took to his favorite social media platform — his own, Truth Social — to float a ridiculous theory about the stock market. The Dow Jones passed 38,000 for the first time in history last week, and he wants credit for it.

Of course, he hasn’t been president for three years, but don’t confuse him with logic.

President Biden has plenty to brag about after the effects of COVID-19 led America into a recession. Inflation was out of control, unemployment was rising, and things just generally weren’t good.

All that has turned around.

Far be it from Trump to follow reason in this case, however. Despite the fact that Trump inherited a tremendous economy and drove it into the ground by ignoring the pandemic, imposing tariffs on everything, and wasting money left and right, and “Bidenomics” turned it around, Trump still thinks he’s the winner here.

Mind you, he’s not even claiming that economic policies he had in place before Biden are at play here. He actually thinks that investors are more confident because they think he’s going to be president again:

“THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP — EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

This entire attitude flies in the face of the historical record. By the time Trump’s economic policies had time to take effect, we were well into his presidency. As we noted, the booming economy and record-setting consecutive months of job growth were all the product of the previous administration.

But just as he wasted more than $140 million paying himself to golf at his own resorts the entire time he occupied the White House, Trump threw money at pet projects like it was burning a hole in his pocket.

Just before the 2016 election, around 800 economists penned a warning letter about electing Trump, ominously pointing out his “deep ignorance of economics and an inability to listen to credible experts.”

Cut to four years later, and there was another letter from 700 economists calling him out for his “selfish and reckless behavior.”

Trump can try and take credit all he wants. But everyone knows the truth. And Biden had a little fun with it as well:

Others had opinions as well:

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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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