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bring your crayons too...

Technically speaking, he's right. Growth IS an option to get out of a heavy debt burden. The problem is the economy is not great, has not been great, and has multiple really, really bad economic cycles converging sometime in the next year or two. So umm, good luck with that.

A cancerous growth is what we have.

Such a resonant film. Except, that fateful open-mic moment - can never happen anymore. Re-election after J6 alone, proves that. Even this very tarmac presser should be fatal, for any other potus, in any other era. But no more. Stupidity and delusion have triumphed over reason and reality.

In his own words "They don't know what the fuck they're doing!"

Funny, it hasn’t done that over the past 20 months… It’ll start in 2 weeks though, right?

The orange turd has been a mobster all of his life, a failed mobster.

He is responsible for 1/3 of entire US national debt.

Or could it be it is the debt that has been driving this growth? Nah, probably no fundamental economics in play here. Let us all instead trust in the great leader.

Truly accurate. But he's so delusional that he probably thinks it works.

Enormous like his penis

Send half of our patriot interceptors to Ukraine. I'm no expert, but ask one of our Nobel laureate's Paul Krugman and he might just agree.

um yeah, LIAR who knows it's lying, no economists needed.

😬😬😬 The Norwegian Government Pension Fund is **HEAVILY** invested in the US economy though... Sincerely, I hope Norges Bank is able to get out of as much as it can, because I don't want to see people suffer for the stupidity and hubris of the US market.

Isn’t that what Republicans have been saying since Reagan? Grow out of it… trickle down… 🙄

Annals of Idiocy

A bankrupt expert is going to bankrupt. It’s all he knows how to do.

The only point in asking Trump serious questions is to give him a chance to offer further evidence he's a senile blithering idiot. Does he consciously lie or actually believe what he says? His self imposed infobubble suggests he does believe these things & just uses marketing-style exaggeration.

Where to begin...

What needs to happen will never happen. Interest on the debt will exceed all federal revenue and the federal government ceases to exist. Default happens and the US breaks up into 50 separate countries. At this point the Federal government is not worth saving due to entrenched corruption.

Default is really the only option.

It's the subtle economics of debt funded tax cuts for the wealthiest GOP supporters and war for a friend of the President's son-in-law.

Not anymore Paying the interest is now

Military wastage and corruption. Benefits aren't trickling down.

Military is now 25% gdp. That’s a full war level of spend in peacetime . If you had another campaign like Taiwan you couldn’t afford to do it. Never mind lack of ammo. There’s a lack of cash.

'He's turned the occupied US into one of his bankrupt casinos, and he doesn't care. Sycophants that vote for him are insane. 🤔' There, fixed it for you 👍

U.S. net interest costs on the national debt have surpassed $1 trillion annually. Good luck growing out of debt when you soon won’t even be able to pay the interest owed on it. That’s why Bessent is freaking out & screwing around with US bonds right now. fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-exp...

That's not what the GOP has been saying for the past 20 years.

He will solve it in 24 hours like Ukraine and 2 weeks like Iran and so and so on. He can do it all easily

The way to grow GDP faster than debt does not start with kicking millions of workers and consumers out of the country (especially when they are net contributors to public finances). Less workforce, less demand = less GDP!

Growth is 1.5%. Not a chance in hell of debt coming down. Taxes need to go up.

It did not exist for 35 years. 50% of it happened during Trump's term.

Oh sure.

Weird how the GOP stop giving a fuck about the national debt when they control the WH.

He doesn’t have a clue … about the debt or anything else

We've heard this same line for almost 50 years. Tax cuts have not paid for themselves. They've gotten us deeper in debt. We've never grown our way out of debt. That's just an excuse to put today's spending on tomorrow's taxpayers. Time to face reality and take responsibility.

Woah... 😬

I meant to say: the US federal deficit is 6%, deficit equals 'change in debt', which means that federal debt is increasing by 6% per year. That is more than twice as fast as economic growth.

Very easy for this "genius" who has never accomplished anything!

Every time Trump opens his mouth "I dont know what I am doing!!!!!!!"

As for the other big lie - Art Laffer’s laughable “tax cuts will pay for themselves” claim - half a century of empirical results says otherwise. We are undertaxed, not overtaxed.

The ONLY thing they should be asking him is, "Did Natalie tell you that, sir?" Sir optional in my book.

America isn't gonna tax its way out of this almighty clusterfuck. The deficit alone is more than a trillion dollars. They need massive spending cuts but that ain't gonna happen so the problem gets worse.

To fix this, a lot of things would have to go right, which is almost impossible. Higher taxes, spending cuts, AI productivity boost, low interest rates. They can maybe kick the can down the road for a few more years but the bill is coming due. And we’ll all feel it.

Why do you think Trump wants Venezuelan Oil, Iranian Oil, Greenlands resources? Otherwise the #USA will go bankrupt.

it's exploded under his 'growth'

Debt 35 years ago was US$3.7T. And that’s a big problem. It’s now US$40T. That’s how growth took care of it. It will take care of it to US$42T by 2029. US people, rejoice. You are in capable hands!

Clinton left a surplus on 1/20/2001.

We need a business man in the White House not a con man.

Just a few more tax cuts and it will all work out! The last 40 years have proven that cutting taxes always reduces the deficit.

Show some trust in the guy. He has bancrupted six casinos. No one with PhD in Economics could ever achieve that! He is a smart ass 😂

The counterquestion from the journalists should be: "Has Natalie Harp told you that?"

What will the country do when growth stops, or the economy falls into recession? (Which will aurely happen at one point). Or, what will happen if the interest goes up? It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

If we were a serious country, we’d also look at the revenue side. Raising taxes. Defining everything as requiring slashing benefits/spending is GOP framing for 45+ years. It’s how Grover Norquist et al have planned to make govt “small enough to drown in a bathtub”

I know nothing about Economics 🥴 But I do know that he's full of shit. 🥱