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Trump Backs Off on Economy Claims
He is realizing that he can’t improve on the strongest economic numbers in decades
Deep breath. The disruption we have expected from the incoming Trump administration has already gone beyond my worst expectations and I’m pretty skeptical by nature. It’s a bit hard to keep up with it. But here we go. Hang on.
It looks like Trump is going radio silent on his grandiose claims of ‘fixing’ the economy. And the reality he faces has two aspects causing him to back off. First, Joe Biden has left him a stellar economy on a silver platter and it is hard to improve on those numbers.
And this time around, the press appears poised to not blindly accept his lies about what Biden left him. It’s revisionist history and his people know it. Yes, his MAGA followers continue to believe the economy is in tatters and that won’t change. They don’t want to know that the reality he sold them is based on outrageous falsehoods.
But reality has a way of eventually showing up. Maybe not for them, but frankly, their viewpoint has no basis in reality. Trump knows this stuff and he also may have an eye on history, though that is questionable. What it seems he is realizing is that his myths about how bad the economy has been are lies too big to be sustained.
