Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded https://econ.st/3YbbFjq
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On MSNBC Charlotte Howard referred to the felon in the Oval Office was empathetic. The word empathetic show never be used in reference to this man. He doesn’t and has never expressed empathy!!
anyone believing This is Temporary pain, or Things will rebound following Dumbsters admins economic disasters, isnt paying attention. Dont feel fear, #Resist w/#courage against this Administration Now! Donald Does Not have a plan for everyday working Americans.We must be vocal & pushback hard 4/5/25
I used to think Republicans crashed the economy because they’re dumb.
Not quite.
Trump’s plan is to ruin us—no money, no work, no schools, no homes, no food, no votes, no rights—making us so desperate we’ll gladly bow to billionaire overlords in exchange for scraps.
Trump: If you're frightened of losing everything and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the the financial system.
"the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era" - and Brexit eases into second place with a big sigh of relief from its proponents.
When you elect Trumpian-GOP stupid &/or insane & utterly corrupt authoritarians, it is ALEAYS working Americans who pay to regain all they STOLE-DESTROYED from USA:$$$/US allies/law & order/Unbiased Judges/Functional Pubic Health Depart that protects instead of endangers/OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE/ VA-
These left leaning, liberal, woke, anti capitalist, granola, Birkenstock, Sanders loving, pro Trump, under researched and feelings based magazines lean SO heavily into loving what Donal..... Wait, WHO? Yeah, Mango Mussolini is a moron.
Little. It’s just uninformed. They celebrate having no “expertise”. They don’t know how anything works. There isn’t a credible economist within miles of his inner circle. It’s conspiracy theorists and trolls.
But most of all - they are feckless cowards.
There will be no war. They’re destroying us.
Y'all still sound surprised that he takes joy in creating chaos.
Anyone notice who dint get tariffs? Putin & N. Korea.
It's all for his buddies, the dick-taters.
The only time the felonious clown cares about Americans is when he needs their votes.
From Europe we can't believe how American people are allowing this madness
Good thing is a woman is leading here with her brain, not with testosterone.
Your greedy insane potus will think it is weakness, but we don't care.
Wake up, America! YOU ARE THE PEOPLE!
We hope it is not too late.
What do you expect from a guy who had six bankruptcies operating his small family real estate business. We should all shudder that this incompetent person is CEO of the United States of America.
Not a single person in his administration will resign over this. Nobody resigned over the kidnappings. Nobody resigned over the illegal use of Signal. Why? Because these are not serious principled people.
Listening to just a few minutes of that speech was infuriating at how it was geared specifically towards his most ignorant supporters. And in that goal, he sounded like a hero to MAGA while he deliberately crashes our economy.
ENOUGH! THROW HIM OUT. He broke his Oath of Office causing us harm.
Yes, Republicans and Musk enable Trump’s hatred, cruelty and violence especially to women- they are enablers and collaborators complicit in destruction and environmental degradation. Thank you Wisconsin.
I’m a nobody but you have a platform. Read @MarcElias.bsky.social. He is right.
Tariffs are just a means to bribe countries, corporations, industries to kiss the ring and obey Trump and make him a dictator. This is not about MANUFACTURING. THIS IS ABOUT BRIBERY AND BELITTLEMENT AND RETRIBUTION.
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
We all know, he had someone else attend classes and do his work, he was to busy womanizing. So he really has no clue of what he is doing, and his advisors are no better.
Well, the Economist wasn't wrong there. It COULD have, had Trump "built on its strengths", "subdued his own weaknesses." As the article continues: "Historic circumstances, political dynamics and his own audacity could also enable him to achieve the legacy he wants..." However, that would have..
required a person with respect for his fellow-man and love for his country, whereas the guy who was elected is a self-obsessed idiot who only wants to take revenge.
It’s a shame you didn’t see this coming… so many others did. You dumb mother fuckers helped sanitize his crap for awhile and now you’re like “oh shit, what a mess we have here”… you’re hands are dirty so fuck you
I think you meant to be posting this on X or Truth Social or Facebook.
Bluesky is almost entirely the most engaged of all progressive voters. I’ve never voted for a single Republican in my life. Almost all Bluesky would say the same.
You probably want to look at my profile, see where I land and then understand that a critique of a news organization that helped sanitize Trump while vilifying the Dems isn’t a Republican take…
In that you also appear to have clearly missed all the obvious Canadian markings here lol. I too have never voted for a Republican… or a Dem for that matter.
I am livid that the US president continues to attack my country
I love that my Husband and I 401k special needs adult daughter, life is based on a bet by a guy who ISN'T AN ECONOMIST and has feckless idiots around him
His entire world view is trapped in amber. The modern, global, progressive world is at odds with his sentimentality for the Gilded Age and for the 1950s when America manufactured lots of widgets and white people were supreme.
It's almost like he is doing this on purpose. Seems like the only countries he isn't screwing over is North Korea and Russia. Weird huh? And all the people who could stop him and save this planet just sit there and watch the show.
North Korea has long-term sanctions. Tariffs would have zero impact. Russia has sanctions but there was a $2.5 billion trade deficit in 2024 with U.S. exporting ~$526 million to Russia. Just adding context.
Trump is deliberately destroying the U.S. and should be impeached.
Senator Chris Murphy posted a clear explanation of what Trump is doing with tariffs. It took him 11 posts on Bluesky which I consolidated into one document with no changes.
Because he's a moron whose Daddy bought his way into college - after he had someone else take his exams - and doesn't understand what a freaking tariff is.
Almost 100 years after the Great Depression, Trumpett repeat the same pattern that lead to an economic crash, poverty, wrath and despair
A perfect ground to fascism or nazism and the WWII.
Let your voice be heard!
Check for a local hands off! Event. Please show up en-masse to tell Trump and the Republican legislators to keep their hands off of social security, veterans services, public lands, parks, our wallets, etc etc etc! We all need you, please show up!
The US was a place the world came to give up their hard-earned trade goods and receive only scraps of paper the US said were valuable. It was an unstoppable juggernaut, a casino where the house always won. Trump was the only man who could fuck it up.
I believe that he honestly thinks he is smarter than everyone else and knows it is a genius move. He doesn't need any facts or sees only what supports his theory. Pretty much insane.
As several others have pointed out, why are yall all of a sudden writing about the putrid stench of the man and his ill? Is it b/c suddenly you realize he’s eating into your stability like everyone else’s? Miss me with the April 2025 think pieces that should’ve been written 2015-2024. TF!!
I was swearing at the tv yesterday. No one there to say you're a deluded shitstain with an education of a two year old. Everyone around him is at fault. Too many cowards to say he is wrong.
He's going to get "popped". For real. NOT a threat, just noticing how he has pissed off nearly everyone in the world with his actions. Someone's going to get him, I fear. Someone's who's life he has shattered & has nothing more to lose. Could be anyone in a number of countries. Just speculating...
Instead of berating others that took longer to get on the same page as you, how about you work together to try and end this madness by helping MORE people see what’s happening is crazy?
I think you've misunderstood the point – there's no question this administration is not the chaos of Trump 1.0, because Trump's demanded loyalty towards himself personally. The Economist never suggested this would itself somehow be a good thing or its policies less harmful.
Yeah, America First is a very isolationist policy. Perhaps the economic pain we're about to experience will end the MAGA movement. But it's going to a rough ride and when we come through the other end, America is going to be a much less powerful nation.
Ah, but that's cause you don't understand the danger posed by Heard Island's rapid GDP per capita growth under the scheming leadership of the King Penguins.
So, Russia has sanctions applied to them for such things as, genocide, military aggression, and violation of international law, while Trump applies sanctions in the form of tariff-taxes to his own country. Trump is creating "Generation Poverty" to the People of the USA.
Criticize tepid journalism all you want, but Trump's voters don't read the Economist, and the magazine could have sung Harris and Biden's praises from the rooftops. It would have made zero difference to the election outcome.
Ah but all my friends in Finance do / did. And they could only think about how much fat they could skim off the top once one of their guys was back in the saddle.
They got their 60 day portfolio bump but now have to live with years of poor returns and a tarnished reputation.
This is a good way to shrug off responsible journalism, but we will never know whether not having tepid journalism would've made a difference over the last +10 years.
I am not a subscribe so would only read gift articles. My recollection: The
Economist praised the Biden economy as “The Envy of the World” and endorsed Harris.
Yes. These guys just want to be right and able to pretend they are smart. Just block them or you'll be here all day. The Economist condemning tariffs isn't breaking news. That's been their message for decades.
Nothing was as dire urgent or critical of the looming crash they all knew would come.
This was never politics as usual. Patting Biden on the back isn't the same thing as sounding an alarm on a looming state of economic emergency that would stretch globally.
Dénoncer des promesses de campagne, cela ne sert à rien. Ceux qui sont convaincus savent déjà les autres, ce n'est pas la peine de leur dire quoi que soit, ils n'y croient pas.
They can claim they picked the correct side all they want but the evidence is there! They were trying to have their cake and eat it too and now we're all fucked.
The way some of these newspapers/magazines endorsed VP Harris at the end, reminds me of how some people on the left told people not to vote for her and then panicked and said the opposite. The hate or the apathy had already set in, the damage had already been done. Just thinking about it enrages me
I get that, but like I said, I formed my perception on limited exposure to the magazine that was very supportive of Biden and Harris. And I'm a hair-on-fire, drag the major media kind of observer.
Ah but all my friends in Finance do / did. And they could only think about how much fat they could skim off the top once one of their guys was back in the saddle.
They got their 60 day portfolio bump but now have to live with years of poor returns and a tarnished reputation.
Watching it again and it is stunning me how stupid this “President” is on economics.
Is he expecting to get the Nobel prize of Economy as much as the Nobel Prize of Peace?
He made up numbers based on theory he created from dementia. And we let this moron decides about the lives of so many people.
That's giving him far too much credit. He's clearly been making up as he goes along as evidenced by the fact that some of these tariffs were slapped on uninhabited Islands.
hes not working alone and thats not necessarily stupid, someone just didnt go into every detail, and as long as it hasnt any further effect to have an uninhabited island on the tariff list it could even be said to be efficient as it saves tedious detail work that doesn’t change anything.
Tedious details are the nature of the game when it comes to things like this. DOGE ignoring the small details is what led to the firing of nuclear employees that they had to then rehire or claiming that people who were 150 years old were receiving social security checks.
if this kinds of errors will help to show how immature these tariff orders are it is also a good thing that they do it like this and it might eventually help to fight them!
It wasn't an error, it was intentional. He is deliberately working to destroy this country from within. There is no other explanation for this and everything else he has done, both this time and in his first term.
This is a smash and grab, all his buddies are gonna busy themselves buying up what they’ve stolen from the American people at bargain basement prices. Treasonous af.
Yeah, well when Thiel, Yarvin & the rest of the Silicon Valley tech bro oligarchs strip this country down for parts, sell it off & profit immensely………..
Leaving the rest of us eating cat food & living in cardboard boxes.
Not nearly enough Americans have read #Project2025 which is being followed to a "T". So many actions are illegal, unconstitutional and possibly impeachable. Meanwhile dont fear, FIGHT BACK! The WH DOESNT have a clear plan & we can push back hard to save our democracy. TY #CoryBooker & #KamalaHarris.
It was a serious question, and yet I read here that the headline does not adequately contain the warning to the US public.
I’m not claiming that the Economist must be clear about US consequences to economic policy in their headlines but it would be helpful if it wasn’t usually after the problem.
Deluded? It's totally and utterly false in every respect. To disrespect your allies in such a gigantic way, usingfecojomic sabotage as a bargaining weapon, just to appease his base, shows the sheer lunacy of this administration.
Fascinating. I do not think anyone would have portrayed 'The Economist' as at all radical but now the norm has shifted so much to many especially in the USA such commentary will sound almost revolutionary!
Everything the Bad Seed does is for Russia. He has "Putin whisper's" all around him who are passing on to him Putin's marching orders. The Bad Seed is taking down this country, and its econ partners and the Republicans are gonna help/let him do it.
“Error” provides an off ramp. This is vandalism. Political, economic and narcissistic vandalism. Aided and abetted by all the men and handful of women who have fed and continue to feed this monster, escorted by an army of Itoldyouso’s.
Shock that…
Like we couldn’t see this coming but still 77.3 million Americans said, I’m going to go with the twice impeached, lying, grifting, felon with a history of 4000+ law suits who spent his last term spewing complete and utter SHITE.
#FeckwitTrump
I hate rich people and I don’t own any stock so this is honestly great news. It makes me really happy to see you guys all cry about it. Thank you Trump.
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They can take it back from him any time they want.
So highly ejacated 🍊
Bravo!
Imagine the world today if the Economist ran this story last fall.
Instead, the editors at the Economist happily lead the country into this with their bullshit.
Not quite.
Trump’s plan is to ruin us—no money, no work, no schools, no homes, no food, no votes, no rights—making us so desperate we’ll gladly bow to billionaire overlords in exchange for scraps.
Making America Feudal Again.
Even if the US fully decoupled, the RoW would be absolutely fine. Bit messy for maybe 2-3 years as it reroutes around the US, but that's about it.
But the US itself - world of pain.
But most of all - they are feckless cowards.
There will be no war. They’re destroying us.
Anyone notice who dint get tariffs? Putin & N. Korea.
It's all for his buddies, the dick-taters.
The only time the felonious clown cares about Americans is when he needs their votes.
He's doing it for ego, hubris and a naked power grab so that he can control which businesses get relief from which don't based on who kiss his ass.
Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission 👏
Good thing is a woman is leading here with her brain, not with testosterone.
Your greedy insane potus will think it is weakness, but we don't care.
Wake up, America! YOU ARE THE PEOPLE!
We hope it is not too late.
I listened to Trump speak live while I was driving yesterday.
Today I was wiping the saliva from the inside of my windscreen because I was yelling expletives.
It actually hurt to hear and see it.
But he talks to the uneducated MAGgots.
The fact is, you chose not to think and instead fantasized that Trump would be somehow… different.
You had to know he wouldn’t be, couldn’t be… but you ignored the truth.
ENOUGH! THROW HIM OUT. He broke his Oath of Office causing us harm.
Did you run any cover page, single headline stories about his clearly stated intent and its very harmful impact BEFORE the ELECTION?
Tariffs are just a means to bribe countries, corporations, industries to kiss the ring and obey Trump and make him a dictator. This is not about MANUFACTURING. THIS IS ABOUT BRIBERY AND BELITTLEMENT AND RETRIBUTION.
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc?giftId=d06f86cf-55dc-4472-89c3-784c212e23e0&utm_campaign=gifted_article
Keep up, FFS.
The Christian fundamentalists
elected the anti-Christ President.
*
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/21/america-really-could-enter-a-golden-age
Bluesky is almost entirely the most engaged of all progressive voters. I’ve never voted for a single Republican in my life. Almost all Bluesky would say the same.
I await the apology
I am livid that the US president continues to attack my country
Why should anyone take you seriously?
Trump is deliberately destroying the U.S. and should be impeached.
Although nothing is an error. It's a destruction project. He wants to build the American empire where he is the supreme emperor.
It's a SHAME how The Economist lies about Brazilian institutions, constitution, laws and facts.
I've never seen anything so disrespectful to Brazilian citizens.
/sarcasm
A perfect ground to fascism or nazism and the WWII.
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But you got here.
Well done.
Keep it up.
2) https://www.thebulwark.com/p/101-more-reasons-trump-is-unfit-to
3) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/233-mental-health-professionals-spell-out-dangers-of-donald-trump-in-chilling-letter/ar-AA1sUhzO
4) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-house-democrats-president-impeach-no-confidence-resolution-a7850006.html
Miss me with the narrative that is coming out now … you’ve known, but were benefiting, so you didn’t care.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m
TLDR: the tariffs are not about money they are about the consolidation of power. The pain is the point.
Betrayer to our trade PARTNERS
Betrayer to our historic ALLIES who have stood with us for so long. (no more)
Betrayer to our COUNTRY and its subversion to a fascist regime.
Betrayer to the PEOPLE of our country who are harmed in far-reaching and momentous ways.
#47thebetrayer
Isn’t that the goddamn point of what we’re doing?
Fighting amongst ourselves, solves nothing.
It's why he needs Greenland.
They should have been unequivocal in calling out the fundamental lies of his campaign promises.
They got their 60 day portfolio bump but now have to live with years of poor returns and a tarnished reputation.
Economist praised the Biden economy as “The Envy of the World” and endorsed Harris.
What do you want from free-marketeers?
Like I said I'm not a subscribe, so I have no idea what's said in that interview. "You've read all of your free articles this month."
This was never politics as usual. Patting Biden on the back isn't the same thing as sounding an alarm on a looming state of economic emergency that would stretch globally.
The problem isn't the headlines, the problem is reaching people who don't consume news at all.
However, Trump's tens of thousands of distortions or lies was previously publicized by the Washington Post & widely disseminated.
His many other misdeeds were also widely publicized.
Stop placing blame on media for not being shrill.
Every other article was Democrats in disarray!
Why not "Republics run a rapist for President?"
They can claim they picked the correct side all they want but the evidence is there! They were trying to have their cake and eat it too and now we're all fucked.
They got their 60 day portfolio bump but now have to live with years of poor returns and a tarnished reputation.
So there’s that.
Most economists are wrong.
But the few I respect are concerned.
Is he expecting to get the Nobel prize of Economy as much as the Nobel Prize of Peace?
He made up numbers based on theory he created from dementia. And we let this moron decides about the lives of so many people.
How utterly refreshing is this?
What Donny DoPoos is ACTUALLY doing is signing the DEATH WARRANT of the Republican Party, whose members will soon be out of power for a generation.
VOTE THE GOP OUT!
It does not stand for free speech, freedom or democracy.
It stands for jackboots and offensive rhetoric. It symbolises the triumph of theft over equity.
It convinces fair minded souls to cross the divide to darkness.
That suggests that the devastation isn’t deliberate.
Tedious details are the nature of the game when it comes to things like this. DOGE ignoring the small details is what led to the firing of nuclear employees that they had to then rehire or claiming that people who were 150 years old were receiving social security checks.
No one is giving this issue any thought like they should they are just going along with what the tyrant wants, with disastrous consequences.
here we are talkin about naming a tariff for an uninhabited island …
it has no effect
I wish journalists would stop claiming to know what someone is thinking or believes.
Leaving the rest of us eating cat food & living in cardboard boxes.
I’m not claiming that the Economist must be clear about US consequences to economic policy in their headlines but it would be helpful if it wasn’t usually after the problem.
#recession #harris
Not everyone can afford a subscription to every publication in this economy.
#Enshitification #OwnNothing #SubscriptionBasedServices
Read and learn @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com
This is how you report news.
https://podcasts.apple.com/jo/podcast/from-russia-with-kompromat/id1456045551?i=1000633063280
Like we couldn’t see this coming but still 77.3 million Americans said, I’m going to go with the twice impeached, lying, grifting, felon with a history of 4000+ law suits who spent his last term spewing complete and utter SHITE.
#FeckwitTrump