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Heck of a job, Trumpie [1]
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Date: 2025-04-05
A brief diary to say that while I take no solace in dropping stocks, that this is a fully self-inflicted Trump debacle. Trump chose to tank the economy, and Trump owns this. Another week of what has transpired the last two days, and the credibility of Trump goes down with the ship.
Kakistocracy as Paul Krugman taught us refers to government by the least competent or suitable of citizens. Trump has always surrounded himself by such people, who have had the singular talent of kissing his arse.
But now, with Trump choosing a fantasy-view of tariffs and how to levy them—some tariff protections certainly may be justifiable, but not these and not in this blanket and extreme manner—it is Trump who owns the fruits of fools running the ship.
Another week of stock-market mayhem will be the equivalent of Biden’s awful (hate to say it, but it’s true) management of the Afghanistan withdrawal (though Trump set the conditions on the ground for that, too). It would also match the Bush performance after Hurricane Katrina, when he said to the FEMA Director Michael Brown, who was unprepared for the job, that he was doing a “Heck of a Job, Brownie.”
This current disaster—tariffs higher and faster than the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act—whether they come to be withdrawn (as they should be) or not, will stick to Trump, who chose them for no reason other than ego and brashness and lack of knowledge.
So the one solace we can have in Trump crashing our economy and the world’s with it too (hopefully in a recession and not a depression) is that he will, for once, actually bear the blame.
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