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Hassett responds to Paul Krugman: "We've got new policies that are gonna add even more growth, so of course we're gonna get 4% or 4.5% growth this year or next"

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Every time us see that smug smile of Hassett’s that never goes away I think about how much he must have been beaten up in school.

Hassett, like trump and all other GOP operatives, lies like breathing about things that can be disproven by easily verifiable facts. GDP never reached 3% in trump’s first term. It did reach minus 3+ % in the last year of that term.

I think Hassett has bladder control problems. Constantly looks like he's about to pee his pants with delight over his smug superiority.

Did he respond to this? "Hassett is an ideological DEI hire. That is, his career has depended not on getting things right but on displaying unswerving loyalty to conservative causes — and, latterly, on saying whatever Donald Trump wants to hear."

They originally claimed robust growth in early 2026. Now, it's 2026 Q4 or 2027. When the combined shocks of tariffs, oil prices and continued blood and treasure lost in the Middle East on Donald’s war-of-choice devastate our economy, the can will be kicked again by these ass-clowns.

They should have implemented these "new policies" last quarter 2025. Why would they let this downward trend take hold. The data they're scared about doesn't include the energy impacts from the current war we started. Things will get worse.

"Former NY Times Columnist" and "Debbie Downer", vs. "Former White House Economic Adviser", "Nobel Prize Winner for Global Economics".

And BTW, he acts like he wasn’t already president for 4 years. He was the only president with negative job growth during his term. And growth lagged behind bush & Obama…funny, he never mentions his “successes” from his 1st term…because there were none…

When (if) Democrats every govern again guys like this and a Bessent will hired by CNN for their opinions and political knowledge. Primarily because CNN isn’t news, it’s entertainment.

When (if) Democrats every govern again guys like this and a Bessent will hired by CNN for their opinions and political knowledge. Primarily because CNN isn’t news, it’s entertainment.

Or next??? Which one this year or next year? And when next year hits, and things are still horrible, it will be the next year when things really improve. Seems like the endless amount of two week promises we get from Trump.