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Jobs down.
GDP down
Consumption down. 
Inflation up. 

Winning!

If all those metrics were inverted and Trump claimed it was all him and none of Biden's efforts, would you agree?

The truth is it's a bit more muddy than we would like to admit 

Not excusing Trump's blatant lies btw

The trade imbalances are irrelevant as long as they exclude digital services which is our most dominant industry. 

We export bits and bytes and import raw materials and hard goods. 

Unfortunately digital services are included in the trade deficit calculation. 

Our country is in debt because of war; not trade. We could have restored critical industries without hurting the rest of the country.

From what little macro I know, some of the trade imbalances with China would have caused global reordering under any other US presidency. The trend was not fine

China continues to have "developing nation" trade agreements w the world and abusing it to gain more power

We just have an accelerated problem under Trump

All of these metrics were way better and trending fine until he decided to implement an economically illiterate policy.

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net

The geopolitical context Trump is in at the start of 2025 wasn't solely his own creation

There were several Biden administration officials that seemingly pivoted against China as they saw more threat 

The reaction Trump put to address that context is questionable but many figures agreed there needed to be a rebalance

this seems disingenuous, or at least omitting the elephant in the room

it's not that muddy at all, when a black swan event corrolates with a major (historically unprecedented) policy shift

if trump had implemented some tremendous policy that dominated news cycles for months in a positive way, like (bad examples) eliminating all taxes or buying China outright, then yes, he would get the credit for it suddenly going up