In a move that seems designed to wreck the U.S. economy right as Joe Biden is taking office as president, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Thursday that he would not extend emergency lending programs that have been instrumental in stabilizing financial markets during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the Washington Post: “Treasury Secretary Steven […]
With all the news that bombards us on a daily basis these days, it’s inevitable that you probably missed remarks President Donald Trump made recently during a call with business leaders to discuss financial relief to small businesses in the United States. As you’d expect, most of what Trump said was imminently forgettable, but one […]
More bad news arrived Wednesday for the Trump reelection campaign, and it came in the form of a poll which shows that the president’s so-called signature issue — the economy — has now become a liability for him. The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows that not only is Trump underwater with his approval rating on […]
First Daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump has a message for the 40 million Americans who are jobless thanks to the way her father has mishandled the coronavirus pandemic: According to Nepotism Barbie, those people just need to “find something new.” HuffPost notes that Ivanka is serving as the spokesperson for the Trump […]
In the Rose Garden on Friday morning, Donald Trump simply couldn’t resist taking a victory lap and patting himself on the back when the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 2.5 million jobs had been added in May, lowering the unemployment rate, he crowed, to 13.3 percent as the U.S. economy began to emerge from […]
Donald Trump had his reelection campaign all planned out. Since he knew he would never be able to convince a majority of American voters that he was maturing as a leader, he’d just keep talking about how strong the U.S. economy was. Or, as he has so often bragged, “The greatest economy in the history […]
With the U.S. death toll from coronavirus passing 60,000 earlier today and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) tumbling 4.8 percent in the first quarter of the year, American voters are indicating that they have lost all faith in Donald Trump’s ability to navigate the two biggest issues that will be the hallmarks of the 2020 […]
Donald Trump has failed miserably when it comes to any number of the things he was elected to accomplish. Trump promised the economy would boom under his leadership. But coronavirus has the nation on the verge of an economic depression, with 3.3 million Americans filing for unemployment last week and the overall unemployment rate possibly […]
For months now, Donald Trump has been bragging that the U.S. economy is the strongest in the world and the envy of every other country. But on Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 3,000 points, a full 12.9 percent of its value, and even conservative economists are now saying a global recession has […]
On Saturday morning, Donald Trump woke up and thought he’d pat himself on the back. Apparently, Trump saw a tweet from right-wing radio host Wayne Dupree in 2014. So Donnie responded: So true Wayne, and Lowest black unemployment in history! https://t.co/gDxxJdZQUm — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2018 One problem with Trump’s assertion: The unemployment […]