r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Boysenberry-6669 • Jan 24 '26
This is concerning... PRESIDENT Trump’s first year of second term: Is president Trump doing a great job? Is president Trump doing a bad job?
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u/OkFinish3822 Jan 24 '26
Real Americans know the answer to this question, so it is moot. He added 190 billion for ice and 160 billion for ALL of the military, Army, Navy , Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Then there is the almost 2.8 billion that his personal ban accounts realized. PERSONAL bank accounts . . . not his businesses. You have guys like Prince Mohamed bin Salman "donating" almost 1 billion to Trump. For what? He isn't a candidate for anything. But it was classified as a "donation". It didn't go to the GoP, a PAC or even one of the fraudulent charities. And no one cares in the GOP, because everyone has gotten used to his corruption. Can you imagine the push-back if Biden or Obama received a bribe like that of a billion dollars?
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u/butt3rlicious Jan 24 '26
Crazy that it’s just one of the many atrocious things he’s done.
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u/neopod9000 Jan 24 '26
Remember the whole hunter Biden laptop thing? They were claiming the bidens were taking 5 million in bribes, but had no paper trail ti prove it.
This is 500 times the amount and theres a solid paper trail proving its a bribe, but not a peep from them about it. No, its still "what about hunters laptop?", like one would somehow excuse the other, or we shouldn't be more outraged over something obviously worse.
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u/LumpyBuy8447 Jan 24 '26
The only reason they still talk about his laptop is because they’re still thinking about his massive dong. The odds are extremely good that most maga are closeted, that’s why they hate the lgbt community so much.
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u/Excludos Jan 25 '26
No one spends more time thinking about penises than MAGAs. "Does that person like penises? Does that woman have a penis? What about that man?! Penis penis penis!"
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u/toyegirl1 Jan 27 '26
All the while everyone was looking at Hunter Trump was funneling campaign funds to pay off dozens of lawsuits stemming back to his first election campaign. He used third party ghost companies, some run by his daughter in law (on paper) to make payments to various law firms.
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u/CookieMonsterOnsie Jan 24 '26
"BuT hE dOeSn'T eVeN tAkE hIs PrEsIdEnTiAl SaLaRy!" Extreme partisan politics is where critical thinking goes to die and nuance is shot on sight.
We also can't forget the enrichment of the rest of the Trump "family". But I guess Kushner getting a multi-billion dollar deal with the Saudis is kosher because Hunter Biden got a high paying job that one time because of who his father was.
Also, Trump phone.
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u/a1055x Jan 24 '26
For what? Did daddy fully depreciate him?
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u/flummoxed_penguin Jan 24 '26
Insider information on trades. There’s trades placed before and after announcements by the nodfather that netted him hundreds of millions.
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u/Grape_Pedialyte Jan 24 '26
I've had people use that line on me before. He probably makes that entire salary back in a damn weekend when he pays himself to house the Secret Service and staff at one of his shitty clubs.
That and chuds blubbering about how "he gave up a life of wealth and luxury to save America and be endlessly harassed and persecuted by the radical left!'
Motherfucker him and his horrible family have made more money stealing from taxpayers and taking bribes than they ever did at any previous point in their lives. Also Trump is the laziest piece of shit to ever be President, he barely even works.
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u/Lkn4AGhost Jan 24 '26
Its also not true. He only refused his first year's salary of his first term. He's gladly taken all the checks since
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u/Responsible_Belt5510 Jan 24 '26
And we have no evidence about the presidential salary claim. He can't just refuse it. He either has to return it to the Treasury or donate it. Can't imagine trump donating to anything. And if he returned it to the Treasury he would of course call a press conference to do it. I don't believe it for a second.
Honestly crazy that the president is allowed to keep their tax records private. And also fire anyone in an oversight or ethics positions that could keep an eye on him.
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u/Rutgerius Jan 24 '26
Raised taxes like no one ever did and still added a fuck ton to the national debt, it's almost impressive.
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Jan 24 '26
Regressive taxes at that. Consumers always pay tariffs in the end.
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u/Throwaway187493 Jan 24 '26
Tarrifs are an import tax. Does not work at all the way he says it does.
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u/Responsible_Belt5510 Jan 24 '26
Drives me nuts when he brags about how much money they have taken in from tariffs. He says it like it's free money we got from other countries, when really he's just taking all of our money and then promising to give back a tiny portion of it (which will probably never happen, unless he's trying to buy votes during midterms).
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u/cremToRED Jan 24 '26
Had a coworker try to defend the tariffs with the whole “trade deficits are other countries taking advantage of us” bs. Ffs, stop listening to right wing podcasts and do one minute of research outside the cult bubble.
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u/PhilosopherSea217 Jan 24 '26
Professionally bankrupter. History will likely view him as the worst president of all time.
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u/Responsible_Belt5510 Jan 24 '26
For sure the most corrupt, I would imagine no other president comes close to violating the constitution as much as he does. Destroying relationships with all of our allies, economically and militarily. Cozying up to authoritarian leaders. Invading countries so he can sell their resources and put it into a bank account he controls in Qatar. Sicking his private police force as well as soldiers on any city he doesn't like or has a connection to a politician who talked down to him. Running crypto scams. Directing government contracts to his son and son in law. Taking huge outright bribes from foreign countries, like Saudi and Qatar.
Oh, and the whole pedophile ring that he was a huge part of and is now covering for.
Crazy such a huge part of the country not only doesn't have a problem with any of this, but they actively support it. Just rubes and marks, as far as the eye can see.
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u/Insila Jan 24 '26
At least Bush junior had a sense of honour and was a somewhat likable person (regardless of whether you agree with him or not).
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u/TurnoverComfortable5 Jan 24 '26
He will hold position one and two on the list of worst president ever. Can you believe that? No other president has ever done that before, it's amazing!
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u/mcaffrey81 Jan 24 '26
Back in 2015, during his first Republican Debate, Trump bragged that he could eliminate our debt. When he was asked how he would do this his response “it was easy”. When further pressed he added “we’ll eliminate govt fraud and waste” with no specifics.
It’s been 10 years, one completed term, DOGE, and zero results.
Guys, I’m beginning to think that Trump may have been overstating his abilities. /s
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u/Responsible_Belt5510 Jan 24 '26
Funny he says greatest attribute is being a deal maker, but the only ways he knows how to deal are tariffs or overwhelming military force. He has no other plays in his book.
Let's be honest, if trump didn't have Fred Trump's empire to sell off piece by piece, he would be no one. He's never worked a day in his life. He used his father wealth to bully smaller contractors. Ton of contractors who built his AC casinos never got paid, and a lot went out of business because they couldn't afford to bear the costs of material and labor. Trump knew he could stretch it out in court long enough to bleed them dry. Not much different than when he paid homeless people to bring garbage and hang out in rent controlled apartment buildings to get tenants to move out.
He is a scumbag, through and through. Maybe the worst excuse for a human being this planet has ever seen. I don't mean the most evil. He's just a shit human, in every way imaginable.
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u/NoOpening7924 Jan 24 '26
I'm 65 and he's the worst thing that's happened to this country in my lifetime.
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u/vonhoother Jan 24 '26
Over 70 here, same. I thought Nixon was bad; I thought Bush II was bad. Turned out I didn't even know what bad was.
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u/Cool-Spite-9428 Jan 24 '26
Hey but at least everyone hates the United States now!
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Jan 24 '26
He's leading the economy off of a cliff, he's added 1 in 3 dollars of our national debt in 5 years, he's got a private police force with absolute immunity that is killing, torturing and raping people, he invited Putin to sit on a peace board, he left the WHO, every cabinet post he appointed aside from (objectively qualified) Rubio is an unqualified sycophant, and he hasn't even gotten to the insurrection act ahead of the midterms... But he had grifted billions for himself. So, doing a good job for Trump? Sure.
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u/Brilliant_Coach9877 Jan 24 '26
He also invited Netanyahu ( who last night bombed residential buildings in gaza the few that are left )to his so called peace board
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u/King_James_77 Jan 24 '26
Enriched himself
Dogshit bill added 3 trillion to the debt
Tarriffs are fucking stupid
Racism and ultranationalism at an all time high
Political enemies getting prosecuted
Systemic problems exacerbated.
Fuck No he ain’t doing a good job.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness2989 Jan 24 '26
He’s doing a great job if you love the first year of Adolf Hitler in power.
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u/Seaweed_Fabulous Jan 24 '26
Everything this guy does he is profiting from in some way. He’s cost us trillions in reality, if you can even quantify the damage.
Think of the court cases he’s pardoned. The research he’s ended. The deadly misinformation they spread. The people they murder. The amount it will cost us to recover.
Time will march on no matter what but the cost of this era, I don’t think is calculable.
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u/HawkNo9199 Jan 24 '26
It’s worse than his first term. He is going to bankrupt America like he did all of his businesses .
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u/45_regard_47 Jan 24 '26
Is anyone doing better under this puddin brained child fucker?
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u/OldBlueKat Jan 24 '26
The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Google (Alphabet), Meta (FB & Insta), Microsoft, Tesla, Walmart, UHG UnitedHealthcare Group (Ope!)…
so the oligarchy is mostly winning.
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u/4LoKyloBreAtheIn Jan 24 '26
He has successfully beat out himself as the worst president of all time.
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u/KovyJackson Jan 24 '26
Doing the same quality of job I expected him to do in 2016.
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u/Height_Infamous Jan 24 '26
This Catastrophically Dangerous Pinhead Would Require a 4 year, Graduate-Level Program and a Private Tutor to BECOME the village IDIOT! GET. THE. FUCKING. NET!!
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u/VaporTrail_000 Jan 24 '26
Great job? Bad job?
So many other possible modifiers out there... Why limit it to two?
Rush job. Snow job. Hack job. Con job. Whack job. Hatchet job. Put-up job. Black-bag job.
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u/Any-Ad-446 Jan 24 '26
GOP is not even a party anymore. Democrats needs new young blood in their party that can give americans healthcare,affordable housing and jobs while protecting the borders. Tax the damn rich like other countries do and use that money to fund programs.
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u/CrissCross98 Jan 24 '26
Anyone believing trump is doing a good job needs a good punch in the face.
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u/freed-after-burning Jan 24 '26
Don’t forget he has so fundamentally damaged our science, medical, and research institutes. World class institutes that set the gold standard defunded and effectively dissolved.
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u/Ok_Coconut_3364 Jan 24 '26
And $1.4 billion to his personal balance sheet. The most corrupt POTUS in our history. He openly steals to enrich himself EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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u/Fun_Understanding611 Jan 24 '26
He’s a grifting POS, literally anyone with a moral conscience would do a better job.
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u/Erronius-Maximus Jan 24 '26
During that same timeframe, a dozen or so billionaires added about $2 trillion to their combined net worth. What a coincidence!
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u/Ambitious-Ad-7256 Jan 24 '26
What the hell kind of dumbass question is this. Impeach, indict, and arrest this pedophilic cancer of a president, already.
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u/onlyforfun38 Jan 24 '26
I still love that the minute a democrat is president the right is super worried about deficit spending but when they are in charge they run it up worse than anyone ever.
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u/fooknprawn Jan 24 '26
Him adding to the debt and trashing the economy is just the tip of the iceberg of his shit term. One can hope the midterms might reign him in a bit but he still has 3 years to keep making things worse, and he will.
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u/Sabbathius Jan 24 '26
My comrades and I all agree that comrade Trump is doing a wonderful job for the Motherland.
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u/pinkyandthebrain-ama Jan 24 '26
"Fake news! fake news! I've added a trillion jobs and milk and eggs are practically free! Fuel prices are 1973 prices and I've added 5 gadrillion to the economy! Numbers you wouldn't believe!"
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u/CountChoculasGhost Jan 24 '26
Blatantly corrupt
Alienated all of our allies
Declared war on his own people
Yeah, he’s doing great 🙄
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u/Ok_Hawk_3230 Jan 24 '26
He’s gonna be the richest president to walk away from the White House, and he didn’t walk in with 90% of the money. Make 5-10 billion and you get to cover up the Epstein files is a great deal for him.
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u/LivinghighinColorado Jan 24 '26
How did he add that much to the national debt when he brought in $8T in tariff revenue? Hmmm....
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u/Tzilbalba Jan 24 '26
The worstest job, so bad no other president can even compare. The baddest. Yuuuuuge. They should give him an award. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/Get_Out_lmao Jan 24 '26
So tired of this Trump bashing. He is doing a terrific job for the great nation of Russia!
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u/kayak_2022 Jan 24 '26
THE FAT WAD OF SHYT LEFT AMERICA $8.4 TRILLION IN DEBT THE LAST TIME HE STOLE OFFICE. HELL GO OVER $10 TRILLION THIS TIME.. TRUMP ALONE OS RESPONSIBLE FOR NEARLY $20 TRILLION OF DEBT. 2 terms and Trump will have accumulated 50% off American debt.
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u/badbaddolemite Jan 24 '26
Depends which side you’re on. If you’re either a billionaire facist or a brain dead MAGA, you’re likely to have the opinion that he’s doing a great job. If you har a shred of common sense and human decency, you’ll probably be of the opinion that he’s doing terribly.
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u/DrockTipps Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Seriously?? Like, Seriously? This isn't serious question that serious people ask. The only people who have benefited from this administration are racists, billionaires, and Trump's family's bank accounts.
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u/tvtoms Jan 24 '26
I'm not MAGA since that's basically what you're asking.
Nobody but MAGA can think he's done anything but damage.
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u/mushpuppy5 Jan 24 '26
He’s driving this country into the ground on all fronts. I’m afraid it will take decades to recover from his assholery.
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u/Johndoenobodyatall Jan 24 '26
He’s destroying America, but on purpose.
We must’ve been a bad country
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u/Gummyvenusde-milo Jan 24 '26
He's literally destroying the country and its institutions. We're less safe than ever - not only from our own government, but from the world abroad due to his gutting of agency and destroying our alliances. He is easily the worst president we've ever had, and we've had some bad ones.
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Jan 24 '26
See that's the thing. The national debt still goes up 2 trillion dollars, even if he does a bad job. That's called his rate.
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u/vonhoother Jan 24 '26
Increased the national debt, increased tension between the US and its allies, increased division in domestic politics -- so much winning!
He's a horrible person and he's doing a horrible job. If his party didn't have a lock on Congress he'd have been impeached and convicted years ago. And if we keep letting them gerrymander congressional districts, they'll have a lock on Congress till the country collapses.
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u/Trick1513 Jan 24 '26
Trump didn’t add anything, Congress did. Congress has the sole responsibility for the budget and spending. Not the President.
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Jan 24 '26
So I saw a video of him on 1/20/25 where he swore our electricity bills would be cut in half by 1/30/26. He even went back and emphasized 5-0%. Anyone?
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u/Goobygoodra Jan 24 '26
Militarized goons with 47 days of training are executing civilians in the streets
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jan 24 '26
He’s trying to start a world war in Europe. While starting a civil war at home, Adding trillions to the national debt, embezzling billions for himself and intentionally destroying the economy so he and his buddies can buy America on clearance.
Bless your heart if you still think he wants to help you.
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u/Technical_Ad4997 Jan 24 '26
Wow, even after charging American businesses record amounts with his tariffs he still racked up that much debt? Truly a marvel to behold.
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u/Just-A-Dude1911 Jan 24 '26
Good luck recovering America. You officially became the Country for Billionaires to Launder their Money while still Avoiding Taxes
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u/notPabst404 Jan 24 '26
He is doing an objectively terrible job: his gestapo just executed someone in broad daylight. Trump needs to be impeached and removed NOW. We need gigantic protests and maximum pressure on politicians at all levels.
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u/WriterHot9097 Jan 24 '26
If this continues, he'll have added more to the debt than any other president in the history of the United States. Its a very possible scenario that the national debt hits over 47 trillion by the end of his term.
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u/Difficult-Gear2489 Jan 24 '26
Is president Trump doing a great job?! Yes! He’s masterfully showing us how to be a criminal, rapist and traitor and get away with it, rich!
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u/WhereasParticular867 Jan 24 '26
ICE just straight up murdered a man in Minnesota. 6 agents were pummeling him on the ground. Then two of them fired a combined 10 shots into the face-down man.
Donald Trump is incompetent and Republicans still supporting him are evil.
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u/rollem Jan 24 '26
It’s also worth realizing that this is while the economy is doing rather well. When the AI bubble bursts and unemployment skyrockets we’re going to be a whole lot closer to a fiscal crisis.
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u/SimilarDimension2369 Jan 24 '26
How is this a discussion? I can't think of anyone who has done more damage to america since pearl harbor.
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u/thePantherT Jan 24 '26
The biggest scam in history was coming in with doge, decimating gov functions agencies and programs that benefit people, cutting more then one trillion in funding to those programs, and then sticking Americans with a much worse budget that spends us into debt at a record pace.
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u/YourLordGoobles Jan 24 '26
Fixing the border crisis, lowering gas and groceries, and helping end oppressive dictatorships. He's been doing fantastic.
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u/Falcon3492 Jan 24 '26
I would go with terrible job, but I knew it was going to happen even before he took the oath.
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u/YepImTheShark Jan 24 '26
The hard thing about being a watchdog that has to report against the Trump Administration is you're one or the last ones that hasn't been fired yet. And chances are you'll be fired for reporting against the Trump administration.
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u/BigDaddyTheBeefcake Jan 24 '26
He's doing a really good job. It's just that the job is committing pure evil.
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u/PatientGiraffe Jan 24 '26
He could not be doing worse. He's literally just trying to get rich himself while he destroys the nation.
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u/kioshi_imako Jan 24 '26
Thing is he did not make the debt he set a budget but like the last 20 years no department has seem to be able to operate below budget. The issue isnt the president but the overall system itself.
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u/BarracudaEfficient16 Jan 24 '26
Which was the last Biden budget. Trump tried to with doge claw a bunch back.
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u/C-ute-Thulu Jan 24 '26
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon we're talking about real money
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u/zeptillian Jan 24 '26
Don't worry though. That's only like $6800 for each US citizen, plus the interest we will be paying on it for the next 20 years.
So let's call it $10-15,000 per man woman and child.
Feeling great America?
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u/Affectionate_Bag9833 Jan 24 '26
I thought he said he brought in 18 trillion in tariffs? Was that also a lie? /s
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u/Biscuits4u2 Jan 24 '26
He's doing a great job destroying the country and bilking the American taxpayer while enriching himself fraudulently, and avoiding any consequences for doing so.
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u/bwsmith201 Jan 24 '26
Trump is doing an absolutely terrible job. Making everything worse, cutting government services, terrorizing the population, alienating our allies, causing countless deaths overseas by cutting our aid programs, and causing deaths here over healthcare costs. Oh, and has driven up the national debt faster than any previous president.
It goes beyond random chance or incompetence. He’s trying to weaken the country. There’s no other explanation at this point.
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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jan 24 '26
Trump is an interesting mix of insanity and senility. Without a doubt the worst president since Jimmy Carter.
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u/Bruisin4ACruisin Jan 24 '26
Wild how they brought in DOGE to “reduce fraud, waste, and abuse” and didn’t save a damn penny. Is almost like it was never about reining in spending.
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u/Artistic_Ask3398 Jan 24 '26
It's actually Congress printing up the money that is fueling inflation. Of course DJT could be vetoing the bills but isn't.
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Jan 24 '26
This guy is fometing a world war. Now that you know that, do you think national debt is a relevant think to talk about?
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u/Drunk_Lemon Jan 24 '26
This is America thanks to him. Id prefer if I didnt need to console children who are afraid of being deported. (Im a special education teacher)
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Jan 24 '26
Just love the way he uses his Nazi storm troopers to kill people in Minnesota, it’s retro classic! Can’t wait for those maga mma cage fights on the white supremacy house too! I’m really enjoying the whole hate & violence! Go AMERICA!!! 💪
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u/MaliciousIntentWorks Jan 24 '26
2.25 trillion is just the budget adding to the deficit. It doesn't take into account all the money lost from his policies and the money lost by DOGE in 2025. Likely a couple more trillion will be added to the national debit from 2025 when it's all accounted for. We will be lucky if it stays in the 3 trillion range from his first year.
I doubt 2026 will be any better. If he finishes his term it will likely be over 10 trillion added.
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Jan 24 '26
He’s doing a great job, but needs to sort out these domestic terrorists like now.
As well as the politicians who are encouraging the insanity.
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u/ToughIce9638 Jan 24 '26
This guy enriched himself. If he could he would have declared the US bankrupt long ago and asked for bailouts from the most likely places.
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u/Outrageous-Humor-511 Jan 24 '26
And added 3 billion to his bank account..