No, Donald Trump didn’t lead ‘greatest economy in the history of the world’

10 comments

1. > a drastic overstatement, economists say, whether you look at just U.S. history or all of world history.

   > We looked at a similar claim just over a year ago, made by Trump himself, and rated it [False](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/donald-trump/donald-trumps-dubious-statement-about-presiding-ov/).

2. When the majority of the wealth is held by the top few percent, you do not have a good economy. When a large majority of people can’t afford basic necessities (healthcare, house, education, food, and utilities), you don’t have a good economy. When the minimum wage is $7.25, you don’t have a good economy. These are just a few examples of when Trump was president and even now, why I don’t consider this a good economy. But if you ask a billionaire what’s considered a good economy they will give different reasons.

3. Trump led the largest economy of any country ever in 2019. If you want to say largest=greatest, I think that is fair. As with past societies, I don’t think ‘great’ does anything to describe inequality, development index, access to housing, etc that are important measures for a 21st century president of a developed country.

   I’ll add that by this measure, Joe Biden is now leading a much ‘greater’ economy that Donald ever did.

4. Donald Trump the rapist with how many felonies? 

   34. 34 felonies. Facing 54 more.

5. Covid doesn’t count.

6. The constant political spam regarding Trump might just end up with him getting more contrarian and sympathetic votes. Dems should focus their discussions on finding a candidate

7. Trump’s economy was set up to collapse right after he was elected. His staff was pumping money in the backend to keep it afloat but that was gonna run dry right after the election.

   COVID changed that, forcing the gov’t to keep pumping money in and preventing the recession/depression Trump had set up.

   Then Biden came in with sensible policy and also he ran rings around the Republicans in the House preventing the government shutdown, so we got our soft landing.

8. I’m sorry, I don’t like Trump either but these “fact checks” are laughable. Of course Trump didn’t lead the “greatest economy in the history of the world”. Do you even need to fact check this?

9. “No, Donald trump didn’t visit the moon either” FUD article of the week #4534

10. Holy shit fact checkers are coming back! Lol…   kicking back to previous elections…

    These fact checkers sometimes are as bad as the politicians…