Donald Trump Has the Worst Economic Record in Modern U.S. History

The amount of people here commenting authoritatively about this is disheartening.

Trump's economic policies were insane. I remember looking at his campaign platform and seeing tax cuts everywhere and with no way to pay for anything.

I remember him shuttering valuable tools like the pandemic response teams because he wanted to tear down the success of previous administrations.

I still remember him mocking our military, displaying state secrets on national tv, trade wars that destroyed American jobs, diplomatic decisions that ruined international relationships.

I remember immigrant children locked in cages.

I remember the rule of law being absolutely trampled in order to achieve nothing. Just norms and institutions being torn down.

Trump accomplished nothing and made literally every facet of our government, politics and economic life worse.

He performed a political pump and dump and the entire world is still picking up the pieces.

He is a fascist and categorically the worst president we've ever had and every person here saying, "well actually..." should be ashamed.

Trump was the worst President in U.S. History.

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Let's be clear though, it wasn't because of his economic policy, it was his thorough mishandling of covid that got one million Americans killed which was the problem.

To be fair, even if Trump did manage the pandemic like a sane person, the economy likely would’ve still taken a massive pandemic hit.

Other nations, with better public health policies and lower losses of life, also saw a bonkers hit to economic indicators.

Well, he got half of his term playing golf. If he had been all day in office I am sure that he'd tanked it even more.

What if I told you that people who vote for Trump aren't doing so for his fiscal policy? 🤔

His policies were standard republican fare. The difference maker was covid.

But my gas and eggs are so expensive now and I still have to pay my student loans, surely Biden is the worst president ever?

Because he's a criminal mental invalid with followers of the same ilk.

All we want is just for one side to be perfect. Not like it's hard or anything 😂

Just economic record?

At least he didn't start a new war, beating, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many more...

He certainly didn't help, but I think it would've been the worst Economic record in modern U.S. history no matter who you put at the helm.

It'd be like blaming any one person for The Great Depression, it was gonna hit either way by the time it happened, whoever was there could only mitigate it.

Though again, he did nothing to help it, and probably did exacerbate the issues....

I think Trump did a horrible job and his COVID response was probably the single worst possible part of his administration, but I do wonder, what difference would a Clinton response have made with how everything played out? Certainly there likely wouldn't have been as much panic and misinformation spreading, BUT right-wingers would still have called the whole thing a left-wing hoax and had been just as vigilant against masking up and taking precautions as under Trump, maybe even worse under Clinton.

If anything, I wonder if we wouldn't have delayed how widespread COVID would have been throughout the US, like how we saw with China experiencing a surge in COVID cases after they opened back up, well after everyone else had already been through the worst of it. COVID doesn't really care who's in charge, it's more akin to a natural disaster and still may have played out the same way, once the genie was out of the bottle, it wasn't going back in. Maybe the numbers of dead Americans would have been significantly less, but I'm not sure what could've been done differently by the medical establishment to save lives. Obviously preventing infections in the first place would've been the best defense, but assuming it was always going to be an out-of-control pandemic and all those that got infected were going to get infected at some point, could doctors have treated those patients differently and actually saved more lives? I'm guessing we learned alot after those first few chaotic months when the outbreak first happened, so we probably do have better treatments now, and maybe we would've gotten those sooner under a less stupidly malicious administration.