How on Earth is Donald Trump Getting Credit for Joe Biden’s Economy?

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  2. Easy.

    The economy is both simple to feel and complicated to understand.

    Wait until next year when poor people’s taxes go up to pay for the 2017 corporate tax cut.

    If Trump is president, he’ll blame Biden and Democrats over it.

  4. “Lies and the lying liars who tell them.” – Al Franken

  5. >It’s largely a media problem. The chunk of the country (and it’s a large chunk) for whom “the media” means Fox News, their local Sinclair affiliate, and maybe a right-wing talk radio station will never hear that Biden did anything good. Instead, they’ll often hear lies, or gross distortions of the truth, or pitiful excuses that lead them to draw false conclusions.

    Completely agree. And even without the platforms that are specifically right-wing, they mostly prefer click bait opinion pieces and advertizing revenue to factual reporting.

    Until and unless we go back to some sort of fairness doctrine, we’re fucked.

  6. Trump came into office riding the coattails of 75 straight months of economic growth from Obama/Biden, and took credit for their economy. This is just more of his lies and blustering.

  8. This isn’t shocking.

    Through my life I’ve seen Republicans blame Barack Obama for a recession that started before he took office, Ronald Reagan for the good economy under Bill Clinton, Donald Trump for the economic recovery that took place under Obama, and the COVID economic crash that happened under Trump to Biden etc.

    They have this weird sliding time scale that allows them to credit anything good that happens under the economy to the nearest Republican that they like and anything bad that happens under the economy to whatever Democrat was closest to it on the timeline.

  9. MAGA gives him credit for the creation of the universe and say he’s the second coming of Jesus so this small thing doesn’t surprise me

  10. It’s called selective listening, and his audience is great at it.

    Good economy and Trump takes credit? His audience loves that so they’re all in. Tons of COVID deaths and terrible response from Trump? Trump denies it and his audience is all in.

    About 20% of his audience actually believes his bullshit. The other 80% know they’re being lied to but they don’t care. It’s all about winning to them now and they will gladly swallow his lies willingly.

  11. The media reporting is so biased against Biden it may help elect a nutball like Trump🥲

  12. Because we’re being taken hostage by the gullible and stupid who are powered by a monopolistic media apparatus that gaslights them every waking hour.

  13. Not a new phenomenon- one relative of mine was convinced that things tanked in 2008 because the market realized Obama was likely to win. Another Trumpist I’ve talked with was certain that the 2008 crisis happened while Obama was in office, and when shown that Bush was president, was certain that it wasn’t Bush’s fault. If you start with the conclusion that Democrats are bad for the economy and Republicans are good for it, everything else can be contorted to support that conclusion.

  14. No matter what you do yo try to educate the slackjawed idiots that make uo the American public, they will always believe Democrats preside over worse economies, and crime is worse under Democrats. No matter that.

  17. I’ve only heard this from trump and these stupid propaganda articles.

  18. He literally said he’s to credit when the jobs numbers were great and the market was going up because “people expect Trump to be elected again”. The second it goes down and jobs numbers aren’t great he says look what Biden did. People actually believe this shit?

  19. Because we gave Obama credit when Trump was president.

  21. Trump could drop a deuce on a plate call it chocolate and MAGAts would eat it right up!

    It’s not shocking they believe that everything he claims is true.

  24. Might be to do with something about the Far-right making up their reality everyday all day.

  25. Lazy journalists will repeat any assertion Trump makes without fact checking it. It leads to a lot of misinformation put out into the media sphere.

  26. Because the impact of a thing takes time. Repugs trash the economy during their time which only starts to have a noticeable impact after they’re out of office. Dems come into office and get blamed. Dems reinvigorate the economy but get kicked out, at which point Repugs take credit and proceed to trash the economy again.

    Lies and Truth getting their boots on and all that.

  27. Social media has destroyed our ability to actually know anything. Because it is unregulated it is filled with misinformation. If you want people to better understand what is actually happening in the world, you need to regulate social media companies so that they clean up their platforms. Right now Reddit, FB, X, all of them have zero incentive to fight misinformation.

  28. The idiots have been buying into conservative fiscal policy, regardless of the President involved or, you know, actual statistical data, for a century or more.

    Conservatives always poll well on this because they’ve messaged it better.

    Poor and lower middle class whites, who support GOP candidates to a significant degree, have been shooting themselves in the foot in the polling booth for generations now.

  29. Can we stop with this shit? Liars/delusional people will say/believe ANYTHING that allows them to stay relevant/stay delusional. This is not news and it will not sway any truly undecided voters because those don’t exist anymore. Just vote for Democrats and let the GOP slowly die from the repercussions of the cursed monkey paw wish it made in 2016.

  30. When I look at American news it’s insane how skewed the coverage is even in left leaning spaces. Trump gets the white glove treatment non stop and Biden gets dragged for everything.

  31. just more manipulation going on. just rename our county to the MANIPULATED States of America.

  33. Because US media is fully owned by people who think Donald Trump is Jesus Christ returned.

  34. Because most right leaning media is anti-democrat regardless of context and a significant chunk of left leaning media is trying to be objective and unbiased. There are no overtly anti-republican media outlets until you get way further left than you need to go right to get to anti-democrat (Fox).

  36. God it’s so exhausting. Just had a friend from high school bitching about how poorly his small business is doing now compared to two years ago and it’s all Bidens fault. For one, the business did amazing in 2021 and 2022, but his current numbers are identical to 2016-2020 so it’s not doing poorly at all. For two, Biden was president when his business was doing amazing!

  37. Because the Media is helping the Republicans lie about it, as always.

  38. Because they lie and have every Russian and Chinese bots on the internet to backup and propagate Trump lies.

  39. The orange goblin takes credit for everything good and blames others for all the bad he causes. It’s the Trump way! And his cultists believe him.

  41. Most of the economic activity originates in blue America. Red America gets a big time delayed signal just by geography(and lack of economic infrastructure). Of course their sense of timing is going to be off. They get good effects late and to a lesser extent and bad effects early and to a larger extent. Its a feedback loop that benefits the GOP.

  42. It’s not new. My dad gave Reagan credit for the economy under Clinton.

  44. The same way he took credit for Obama’s economy; his followers don’t usually understand how the economy works and just believe what they want to.

    Critical thinking skills are a dying art.

  45. 1: Fox “News”, Conservative based “news” outlets and the wannabe Joseph Goebbels impersonators like Alex Jones and Steve Bannon. 

    2: The liberal media is doing a terrible job at handling Biden because they ignore everything positive which either he is doing or is happening because of him and instead they focus on either Trump or “why this is bad for Biden”. 

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