Actually, I’m in error. The Commerce Department numbers are March 31 numbers. Which means TRUMP STARTED A RECESSION in just TEN WEEKS - ThreadSky

gtconway.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Actually, I’m in error. The Commerce Department numbers are March 31 numbers.

Which means TRUMP STARTED A RECESSION in just TEN WEEKS

Reposted from George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥

DONALD TRUMP SINGLE-HANDEDLY DROVE THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO A RECESSION IN JUST THREE MONTHS.

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crow70.bsky.social•1 day ago

What would you expect from Putin's no. 1 employee?

oeishik.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wonder what he'll do in the next 100 days... https://youtu.be/BCZXfb22ozI

nfirinne.bsky.social•1 day ago

Record setting incompetence. Taking a world beating economy and reducing it to a miserable state! Award the President a lettuce!

4ann-marie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Would you please get after Fox News...dear God in heaven my neighbor is still eating that BS every damn day...it's making her sociopathic.

johnyaya.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sure he'll put a stop to the collection of this data soon enough

johnyaya.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's faster than he ended the war in Ukraine!

margueritefahey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your first sentence is one that Trump would never utter.

yteron.bsky.social•1 day ago

Once upon a time (October 2024), America’s economy was the envy of the world

whiteelk119.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope the media is practicing saying, "The Trump Slump." It seems like that would piss him off to no end.

themaryunfaithful.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Brilliant

mkatepaski.bsky.social•1 day ago

This should definitely catch on!

themaryunfaithful.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Is it not two consecutive quarters of negative growth anymore? I mean, I hate the cunt too but you can’t just make shit up. Or maybe you can. Who knows fucking anything anymore 😂

insuret.bsky.social•1 day ago

The US economy shrank in the first three months of Donald Trump’s second term as he sought to roll out a poorly conceived trade strategy, thinking that the sweeping tariffs on the world would strengthen the US economy.

damonmast.bsky.social•1 day ago

Either Donald Trump brought about a recession in 100 days or…Joe Biden delivered a huge increase in the stock market and engineered a crash to begin just as Donald Trump took over. Brilliant move by Biden if he did that. 🙃

yak18pilot.bsky.social•1 day ago

That will be Fox News’s take.
Can’t blame the “stable genius” for this fuckery…

missy-ubermom.bsky.social•18 hours ago

So is this a bow with an “Oh Mighty Bwana” or “Master, My Master” salutation for Mango Mussolini? 🙄🙄🙄

tonyprinciotti.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let me guess: it's Biden's fault.

roseyroseamund.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

lilienfeld1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember how AI was going to restore the economy--somehow?

libraforequality.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it’s not a singlehanded achievement. His buddies Lutnick and Bessent are helping, along with every “afraid” GOPer in Congress.

mkatepaski.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t forget Navarro!

mynahleague.bsky.social•1 day ago

No mean feat to affect the US economy in 10 weeks, it usually takes a year or so to realize economic policy changes, the US economic engine takes a while to change direction.

bluebutterfly67.bsky.social•1 day ago

So you’re saying the numbers don’t include the disastrous tariff numbers from April?

janerabbit.bsky.social•1 day ago

truly a knack for efficiency

jafkettani.bsky.social•1 day ago

the only comparable contraction is the March 2001 recession under President George W. Bush (dotcom bust so not related to the president). Truly a stable genius, like Caligula’s horse.

jafkettani.bsky.social•1 day ago

rskist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do you get the feeling that watching Trump's economy is like watching the Titanic approaching the iceberg.

pham60.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the economy was roaring on January 19th. Quite an accomplishment.

damianstack.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not technically a recession until two successive quarters of negative growth

blueheron1218.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't understand why Trump continues to get people out to rallies and cheer him on like he some kind of messiah when the country is deteriorating in front of their eyes.r these people in a Trump induced coma? Can't wait til it hits their pocketbook, job, Healthcare. Can't blame Biden anymore!

dajensen.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Trump gets bigots who love his bigotry to support him, no matter what harm he does to them.

cindik.bsky.social•1 day ago

Heads are going to roll at commerce.

somerandomedude1.bsky.social•1 day ago

More like six weeks. He only started fiddling with the economy towards the end of February.

mushtaq44.bsky.social•1 day ago

No i think it was the old one-two/double whammy. First was the DOGE madness and second was the tariffs.

estefano1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait until the unemployment numbers from April hit...they will have the Federal workers fired.
Subaru and Nissan are both closing factories here and pulling out of the country...and 20,000 laid off from UPS over slowing Amazon deliveries...yup, should be just peachy.

mahatma68896892.bsky.social•1 day ago

It takes an evil genius to inflict so much damage in so little time.

besa1.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s going to keep shrinking because revenue from outside of the US is going to decrease.

fymmit.bsky.social•1 day ago

When Jimmy Carter started stagflation, at least his heart was in the right place. He didn’t intentionally do it like Trump.

The first president ever to destroy the US economy ON PURPOSE!

delpiero.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe he didn't do it intentionally. Another possibility is that he is just f#£&ing dumb.

gardennuts.bsky.social•1 day ago

George, you are my hero. Thank you for everything!

lanarmoss1019.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep this man doesn't care one bit about this country

davemc5192.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s spent over $200m more (thnx DOGE!), dropped GDP by 0.3% & wiped over $7.0tn off the value of US Companies, all within 100 days

Some MAGA achievement!

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Faster than anyone’s ever seen before!”

mreddie8976.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Many people are saying, they've never seen anything like it"

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•22 hours ago

“With tears in their eyes, these big strong men are coming up to me & saying, “Sir, sir! Please keep ruining the lives of my family & everyone I know”…”because I trust that you are playing 10x dimensional chess& in a few weeks all who follow you will be billionaires who don’t ever pay taxes.”

kjell1979.bsky.social•1 day ago

So that's before the tariffs took effect on April 2nd.

bucksfan18.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did anyone with a brain that is functional expect anything else? He files bankruptcy often. Lost even a gambling joint due to lack of business sense. What a loser. People wake up. Admit your vote for him was a great big OOPS.

cyberotters.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, he put the economy on a path to recession...then announced batshit tariffs.

dawnmckinzey092567.bsky.social•1 day ago

WTG FOTUS. You could have just coasted. You were given a growing Economy. MAGA can’t govern. Understand the assignment.

neuroticbirdsfan.bsky.social•1 day ago

How long before the Commerce Department, led by Howie Nutlick, starts releasing bogus numbers to appease dear leader and to just flat-out lie to us?

midugre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Crude oil is now at $60 (it was at $80 in mid-January). Our engineering president said earlier this year that the price of goods would fall as the price of oil fell. Have you seen food prices drop????

prizscisurf.bsky.social•1 day ago

We can't really use the R word yet. You need two consecutive quarters of negative growth for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to call a recession officially. There are signs we may be headed for stagflation due to tariffs, though.

skinoc.bsky.social•21 hours ago

💯% driven by two predictable things:

Tariff announcements triggered lots of importing to beat the tax

Businesses don't invest in periods of high uncertainty.

Ahead: Imports will drop dramatically, but so will consumer spending. Investment probably stays flat and government spending is a ???

sharpstick65.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't wait to see what trump does in retribution against the Commerce department now. The ketchup is flying in the dining/TV room this morning.

realzealman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has there ever been a worse self inflicted ass-beating in the history of global economics?

sewgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

We're number one! Woot!! Murca!

sigmanerd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are you all tired of winning yet?? WOOOO I love a good recession! /s

inside-outside.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, no - Biden started an intentional recession in his last 20 days

cbmartins.bsky.social•1 day ago

😂

ejseader.bsky.social•1 day ago

It took Hitler 53 days to dismantle German democracy and trump missed that record, so at least he has one horrible thing he can claim. He shouldn’t have outsourced the democracy destruction to a South African

mkatepaski.bsky.social•1 day ago

Go George! Details are always there on your posts. TY!

mdenger15.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm old enough to remember when the media blamed Dems for covering up for Biden's mental acuity. Time to use the same standard for all Rs in Congress and the Regime about how batshit crazy and incompetent Dear Leader is and their coverup of it.

msmilack75.bsky.social•1 day ago

repeat: Trump started a recession in just 10 weeks

jvmguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

It really is impressive.

Olympic medal and nobel prize worthy levels of destruction.

cwayne18.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doesn't it need to be two straight quarters of retraction? (Not that we're not obviously in one already)

sewgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow, what a way to over perform!

primomoodstar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Damn he’s good.

frankenmizer.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he created it out of an almost fully recovered, well-functioning economy.
smh

hanson412.bsky.social•1 day ago

At this rate we'll have either stagflation or a depression by June.

wilamena.bsky.social•1 day ago

But he eliminated paper straws.

hugoedwin.bsky.social•1 day ago

But it is all fake …

The golden age is about to start …

Hot air rules!

scottlapstra.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The best recession starter!

www.johnbleasdale.com•1 day ago

I hate Jared Leto

lzee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Impressive!

notrebecca.bsky.social•1 day ago

But but but Anna Kelly said that he wasn't "elected" until January 20th!

vodae.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like no one has seen before!

coyote108.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/we-are-witnessing-slow-constitutional-collapse-in-the-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

mushtaq44.bsky.social•1 day ago

The “slow” bit being the last 30 years, presumably?

sherry6767.bsky.social•1 day ago

the chief deal maker
is a fiasco

rockjohn.bsky.social•1 day ago

and got credit for 20 normal days

bedigger.bsky.social•1 day ago

So we were in a recession evens before "Liberation from affordable imports day", when people were panic buying in anticipation of hyper-inflation. 2nd quarter not going to be as good.

deportable419.bsky.social•1 day ago

According to my sources, Karolie Leavitt will announce that the Commerce Departments numbers are a hostile and political act.

pjro.bsky.social•1 day ago

There were reports during February that the economy had positive growth during January but probably was experiencing negative growth for February. So yes, the recession (assuming negative growth during April-May-June) probably began soon after Trump started to issue his executive orders.