The Trump Recession

The man is always improving, a competitive beast.
He refuses to accept any superior on the “running countries to the ground” sport.

“Ralph” the Wonder Llama for Fed Chair!

It may be an entire department this time.

It’s sacking all the way down.

Well, sure, eliminate the Bureau of Labor Statistics entirely and presto! No more bad numbers! Whatever the White House publishes is The Truth.

The replacement didn’t actually get to work yet. Today’s news:

Trump’s pick to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has history of anti-LGBTQ+, misogynist tweets

Of course he does. (BTW, his picture pings my gaydar.)

That should guarantee his appointment with the Trump supporters.

He’s not disimilar in that to Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and a host of other dictators.

There is a caveat, though. Mugabe was a very intelligent man. In fact, those who have presided over running their countries into the ground have tended to be intelligent. Often evil, but not stupid.

Trump is not evil, in my opinion. Just terminally stupid and gullible, led by people who are evil.

Nah, he’s both. Evil and stupid. Or at least evil and uninterested in anything except himself, with a side of dementia.

This, he doesn’t think he’s evil, hardly anybody does outside fantasy fiction. But he certainly is, the number of unambiguously evil things he’s done, like reveling in death and destruction, making fun of sick or disabled people, actively subverting his own country’s democracy, etc. etc. prove it.

Undoubtedly. What he is, of course, is exceptionally egotistical, selfish, greedy, petty, and vindictive, all of which roll up into behavior and attitudes which are, to most people, objectively “evil.” He fundamentally doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

You left out the mental and emotional maturity of a rather slow toddler (with apologies to any slow toddlers who may be offended).

Or in still other words: classic Republican-Control-of-Government. (My bolding.)

But without the intellectual curiosity of toddlers.

Pro-tip: do not hold your breath expecting anybody in the USA to meaningfully push back on their iDJT.

“Obeying in advance” is their national sport.

More good news for the Trump economy.

Also,

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/trump-jobs-labor-revisions

What we need here is some good ol’ American SOCIALISM!!! :dotted_line_face:

Which is bad, from an economic news standpoint, but we all know that this administration’s spin will be “that was all Biden.”

That’s what happiest during his first term. Trump had to bail out farmers due to his trade policies.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/31/790261705/farmers-got-billions-from-taxpayers-in-2019-and-hardly-anyone-objected

I was pleasantly surprised that the revised job numbers were bad. I figured it would be something like “5 billion jobs added”.

ETA: I wonder who’s getting fired tomorrow?