>President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to cure what he said was an ailing US economy. Little more than a month into his second term, he’s starting to hint that the treatment might hurt.
>The administration is still lavishing Americans with visions of a golden age to come. Yet in the course of a madcap week – which saw a flurry of tariffs and reversals, sparking a global trade war and a sharp stock-market decline – the tone changed a bit.
> “There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that,”Trump told Congress on Tuesday, defending his plans to throw up a protectionist barrier around the US with the biggest tariff increases in almost a century. By Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was arguing that the world’s biggest economy needed some “detox” to wean it off dependence on public spending.
> Trump’s message is that any short-term pain will be worth it to bring manufacturing back to the country. “I’m not even looking at the market, because long term, the United States will be very strong with what’s happening here,” he said at the White House Thursday.
> “It is pure chaos and I worry every day that the chaos is aimed to distract us from the great fleecing of America,”Boushey said. “They have a very clear plan that will require cutting support for Medicaid and other really important programs.”
This is a great message to put out in your first month as president
DankRoughly on
Please clarify who gets the pain and who gets the gain
ChillnShill on
Some pain would maybe be acceptable if we were actually reducing the deficit and getting on a sustainable fiscal path, but he’s doing the complete opposite while providing the pain.
exacounter on
Because that worked out so well for Biden lol
KopOut on
Pivoting from what? This has been what they have been doing from day 1. Why does our media write like this about him?
InformalBasil on
Jimmy Carter asked America to put on a sweater and look how that turned out.
WolfpackEng22 on
Eventually someone is going to need to run on a similar message when they have to raise taxes and cut spending to address our fiscal situation.
Another thing where Trump is poisoning the well. It will be harder if he runs on this and then delivers zero “gain” as expected
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>President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to cure what he said was an ailing US economy. Little more than a month into his second term, he’s starting to hint that the treatment might hurt.
>The administration is still lavishing Americans with visions of a golden age to come. Yet in the course of a madcap week – which saw a flurry of tariffs and reversals, sparking a global trade war and a sharp stock-market decline – the tone changed a bit.
> “There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that,”Trump told Congress on Tuesday, defending his plans to throw up a protectionist barrier around the US with the biggest tariff increases in almost a century. By Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was arguing that the world’s biggest economy needed some “detox” to wean it off dependence on public spending.
> Trump’s message is that any short-term pain will be worth it to bring manufacturing back to the country. “I’m not even looking at the market, because long term, the United States will be very strong with what’s happening here,” he said at the White House Thursday.
> “It is pure chaos and I worry every day that the chaos is aimed to distract us from the great fleecing of America,”Boushey said. “They have a very clear plan that will require cutting support for Medicaid and other really important programs.”
Your pain, his gain.
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The American people are famously very good at making short term sacrifices for “long term gains”
Oh hey it turns out doing nothing seems to be working for Dems (kinda /s)
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Some pain, no gain.
This is a great message to put out in your first month as president
Please clarify who gets the pain and who gets the gain
Some pain would maybe be acceptable if we were actually reducing the deficit and getting on a sustainable fiscal path, but he’s doing the complete opposite while providing the pain.
Because that worked out so well for Biden lol
Pivoting from what? This has been what they have been doing from day 1. Why does our media write like this about him?
Jimmy Carter asked America to put on a sweater and look how that turned out.
Eventually someone is going to need to run on a similar message when they have to raise taxes and cut spending to address our fiscal situation.
Another thing where Trump is poisoning the well. It will be harder if he runs on this and then delivers zero “gain” as expected
Just like Milei!!