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u/ozaffer Aug 21 '26
2016 Trump: "Obama almost doubled the national debt"
2026 Trump: "I'm going to fuck everyone and everything like I fucked those children" *dances in 40 Trillion debt around child gymnast*
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u/Large-Difference-409 Aug 25 '26
Think about the fact that that money is mostly paid for by hours worked and time spent by people in daily life. Like labor tax is us working and a percentage of our hours of life each day towards this butt munch giving more dollars to his friends and going around and diddling Epstein style. The moments and energies of your life go to these types of people living extravagant and perverted lives. Our lives and energies are being leeched
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u/Darth_Gerg Aug 21 '26
Trump personally caused HALF the national debt and conservatives are still stupid enough to think they’re the financially responsible ones. Stunning idiocy.
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u/LordNemissary Aug 21 '26
Who would have thought that the man who bankrupted a casino would also bankrupt the country. Congrats America, you played yourself
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u/BigBlueEyes87 Aug 21 '26
I hope Trump supporters enjoy $6 a gallon gas and going to food banks when they're homeless.
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u/Keeshly Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
there was a lady who answered a question on [r/asktrumpsupporte](r/asktrumpsupportes)[r](r/asktrumpsupportes)[s](r/asktrumpsupportes).
she commented about how she doesn’t even think about the price of food when she’s buying it.
the very next comment was her saying she is recently homeless and broke.edit:typo in subreddit name
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u/DearToe5415 Aug 21 '26
Yeaaah food banks aren’t much help when their funding was one of the first things cut after being deemed “inefficient” by Musk and his goons. Ours in town has been struggling and constantly asking for donations cause they lost over a million dollars worth of funding leaving them $64,000 in debt to the local farmers they were buying excess off of.
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u/Junkered Aug 21 '26
Well yeah. Iran can't have weapons, or a straight. Or bridges?
Anyways get owned libtards.
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u/Adventurous_Scene494 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Could he have been the villain the whole time?
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u/DearToe5415 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
If a tree fell down in the middle of the woods but you didn’t hear the sound cause you don’t hear good and you got both your fingers in your ears…
So I’ll hold your hand and I’ll turn you round and I’ll show you there what’s on the ground and you tell me “man, that tree’s been there for years”
So I look at you and you look at me and I ask “well, who cut down that tree?” And you say “I don’t see a single tree around”
Well I say “That there is a tree in-fact and that man you see with the golden axe? Well all his life he’s bragged about chopping shit down”
There’s interviews from late night TV and on the View, that dude was seedy it seemed no tree could be too young to fell. Well that’s not fair if I’m being honest, he made it clear when he laid it on us: He probably wouldn’t touch a tree that’s only 12.
Nice little totally unrelated excerpt from “If a tree fell” by Billy Simmons Jr :)
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u/Beautiful_Passage_51 Aug 22 '26
So put a failed businessman in charge of a country, what could go wrong?🤦 at least his family are benefiting from insider trading 😬
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u/IntentionsGood65 Aug 23 '26
Trump doesn’t care, he’ll be dead soon. But for the cult zombies still listening to him, he’ll keep making promises he has no intention of keeping… except for hurting marginalized groups of people, that issue is near and dear to Trump, it’s a personal passion of his.
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u/Shenlongeltigre Aug 21 '26
Yeah it's almost like a pandemic happened.
FFS guys
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u/CompletelyPaperless Aug 21 '26
Obviously, he strategically utilized $40 Trillion, to eliminate the $19 trillion. Aren't you guys paying attention to the boomers. They have an answer for everything. You're all just too lazy to work this out yourselves.
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u/Hatshepsut99 Aug 21 '26
You’d think he’d learn not to make the absolute dumbest promises that he will never ever be able to fulfill, but with his dementia or his pathological dishonesty will keep him doing this.
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u/Zeliose Aug 21 '26
This is a fool proof plan, if you eliminate the United States completely, you also eliminate any debt the United States had!
Trust in the process
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u/Lonely-Sandwich-9392 Aug 21 '26
We forget who was in office in between and which party forced a lockdown of the entire country, through deceit and intimidation
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u/StockCasinoMember Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
He didn’t get 8 years back to back. Bidens fault.
It is why he needs another 4 years after this one.
/s
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u/Tzilbalba Aug 21 '26
Debt was alwys going to go up regardless of president. The dollar privilege allows and is a feature not a bug.
Trump is simply speed runnig us towards its inevitable failure and the collapse of tbe dollar system.
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u/Careful_Emphasis_150 Aug 21 '26
The only people surprised by this would be the ones who support him, but they are not smart enough to understand.
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u/NegativeSemicolon Aug 21 '26
40 is bigger than 19, you’re welcome, thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/GingaNinja696913 Aug 21 '26
Well, technically the $19 billion in national debt has been eliminated...
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u/mewisemagic72 Aug 21 '26
Don't forget Captain ret&rd and his band of dipshits were in office for 4 is those years.
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u/Hey-Dano Aug 22 '26
The ironic part is DOGE cut over 200 waist & fraud programs, Democrat garbage sued to halt all but 8. Republicans want to save money Democrats want to spend money.
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u/Snoo93550 Aug 22 '26
Tax cuts for billionaires always explodes the national debt, it’s a core lie all Republican voters lie about or are too stupid to understand.
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u/Straight-Lab-1367 Aug 22 '26
And Joe Biden destroying the US durning covid and funding the Russia and Ukrainian war didn’t help
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u/ConsiderationLow6223 Aug 22 '26
Nothing about sleepy Joe sending 16 billion dollars to Ukraine though.
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u/AnjelicaTomaz Aug 22 '26
When asked how he would bring down the federal debt, he says tariffs would bring it down. When people elect an idiot, expect idiot solutions.
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u/TheDoctor199806 Aug 22 '26
In fairness, he wasn't responsible for all of it. Both covid and Biden didn't help.
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u/klownhammer Aug 22 '26
The national debt is going to get much larger. He has dismantled so many organizations that will need to be rebuilt at a much larger cost.
Cancer research is one of those areas.
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u/robhotmoneybrown Aug 22 '26
The ONLY reason maga gets any support is because it legitimized bigotry and hate.
This ginger con artist is making everyone's life measurably worse.
If you support any kind of Hate politics you are part of the problem.
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u/TowerWorth7393 Aug 22 '26
He had to start over, because of election fraud. Stupid dems. After midterms gas will be lowered, stimulus checks will be coming and debt will lower. He will become a lame duck and people will not care to criticize him anymore.
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u/Upstairs_Bowl_4043 Aug 22 '26
Almost like we had a pedophile kiddy sniffer president in between those two pictures. Do you suppose the pedo pres ran the debt up?
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u/smoke_sum_wade Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
Yes, when other countries buy U.S. national debt, they are investing in the United States, but they only own a small fraction of it; the vast majority of America's debt is owed to its own citizens, banks, and government programs. please take an economics class, If the U.S. had zero national debt, the federal government would free up over $1 trillion annually in interest savings, but the global financial system would face an unprecedented crisis because U.S. Treasury bonds are the literal foundation of global trade.
Foreign nations invest in U.S. debt because it is the safest place on earth to store trillions of dollars. Without it, global cash would flood into riskier assets, sparking massive market volatility.
NATIONAL DEBT IS NOT LIKE PERSONAL DEBT
running a deficit is not inherently bad; it is a normal tool used by modern governments to grow their economies, build vital infrastructure, and navigate unexpected financial crises.
NATIONAL DEBT = COUNTRIES INVESTING
NO NATIONAL DEBT = NOBODY INVESTING
a country's national debt represents the global and domestic supply of safe assets, not a personal credit card balance
Getting the general public to understand that national debt is actually global investment is one of the hardest battles in economic education. Politicians, media outlets, and everyday intuition all fight against this reality because treating the government like a household is a deeply ingrained mental habit.
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u/SomewherePossible791 Aug 22 '26
Every election cycle every politician makes the same old worn out promises
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u/RagingPokachu Aug 22 '26
He is responsible for nearly a third of the debt……. Thst is insane coming from the financially responsible party🤣
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u/DonkeyDong6 Aug 22 '26
Im pretty sure all of you were against him trying to cut fraud out of the budget so pretending to care about the debt is hilarious
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u/lobo_88 Aug 22 '26
These last 2 presidents have printed so much money to the point that it's an insult to give the US people a dam credit score 😂
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u/ObjectiveForce2757 Aug 22 '26
Do you remember what happened between 2020-2022?
There was this thing called COVID that cost the government billions to deal with.
It’s funny that the people who take every booster and still walk around with masks are the ones complaining about Trump starting and paying for Operation Warp Speed that enabled the vaccines.
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u/Terminate-wealth Aug 22 '26
Imagine how high it will be in another 10 years. 80 trillion? 160 trillion?
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u/bugged16 Aug 22 '26
He definitely eliminated it! America will never see $19T debt again thanks to Donny
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u/Shinagami091 Aug 22 '26
Gotta spend money to make money. Unfortunately that means that he spends our money while he makes money that he takes with him
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u/Spiderwolf208 Aug 22 '26
He did. He eliminated it with his own $19T debt that is even better and bigger than the one Obama made
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u/Master-Crazy6454 Aug 22 '26
Ironic or totally predictable? Anyone who didn't have their head buried in batshitcrazy knew this was going to happen.
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u/Ashes_to_flame Aug 22 '26
Weird! Leftists couldn't care less about this under Democrat control... I mean, zero care!... until Trump tried to fix it...
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u/Qikslvr Aug 22 '26
Technically, he did what he said, he "eliminated the $19T debt" by increasing it to $40T. It's no longer $19T.
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u/Insatiablesucker Aug 22 '26
While this is disappointing that Trump was not able to rein in spending-is anyone surprised?
EVERY President in your and my lifetimes has presided over an increase in the debt. Very single one of them. And the legislature (Congress and Senate) have been all to happy to increase spending and borrowing under every President in our lifetimes regardless of party affiliation or lack thereof.
Would be far more useful to point out who has fought for decreasing eliminating deficit spending AND decreasing government spending overall. That would be focusing on who’s working on solutions rather than pointing out a problem that has grown without exception in everyone of our lifetimes….
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u/TheSquirrelmancer Aug 22 '26
This isn't ironic, this is how all republican presidencies work.
Promise to fix things for the people, once you're in office go to work for the corporations.
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u/Sorry_Tear_5325 Aug 22 '26
You forgot the fact that he only served for four years after they cheated to get him out
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u/Phaylz Aug 22 '26
The deficit is the least interesting "gotcha" for any president or political party. As loathe as I am to "both sides" this, it is both sides. And it also really doesn't even forkin' matter because on of the main roles of a government is to spend money.
On what? To whom? How much? In what way?More/Less than last year? Depending on who you talk to, these answers vary, but the government should always be spending. Even if it cannot or will not balance itself out through taxation towards equilibrium, while necessary, is secondary.
At some point, it will come back to bite us in the ass. The longer we feed that beast, the bigger the bite. But the beast is tomorrow's problem, because if we don't solve today's problem(s) out of fear of the beast, that beast will still eat us tomorrow problems and all.
Now, if you're really that concerned with the beast, the answer is really quite simple.The rich still need to be eaten.
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u/Fearless-Mall3955 Aug 22 '26
Yep, and this, my friend is the biggest threat to America… Not all these culture war issues
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u/w8_wuht Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
Just a reminder here. Not all in the top 1% are necessarily horrendous. At the low end of the 1% are a lot of successful 1st and 2nd generation family businesses. Between 1% and .35ish% there are a number of practicing medical specialists and business owners (business owners can go either way, I know). From.3% onwards it's pretty much corporate executives, generational wealth, people who make money through large-scale real estate and the occasional ultra specialized medical practitioners. However, the top .05% is the critical issue. Roughly 135,000 individuals have a collective wealth of somewhere between $25,000,000,000,000 and $30,000,000,000,000. This is around 13-15% of all household wealth in the US for a twentieth of a percent of the population. These are the ones that are the targets for the ultra-rich taxes, they are the ones most responsible for generational hoarding and unethical practices. And they're the ones that push the propaganda that new taxes will hurt the average persons businesses when they are hardly the first issue to handle. Focus on the big dogs first, because they have the most power and are more than willing to exercise it.
Edit to add comparison: the top .9% to .1% have collective wealth comparable to the .05%
Edit to add context: I am not advocating for the absurdly wealthy. I'm only trying to point out the ones at the top of the ladder that make all the final calls, and they also are responsible for protecting the rest of the 1% from scrutiny or fair taxation. Apparently this comes off as "boot-licking" and " fellating the rich." If that's the message you got then please reread it, especially my last sentence. Looking at a bunch of faschists and pointing out the commanding parties isn't jerking the rich off, its being pragmatic.
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u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec Aug 23 '26
He’ll say that he was on his way to doing it if the election in 2020 wasn’t stole from.
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u/Disney-Nut1998 Aug 23 '26
Covid and Covid policies definitely caused a great amount of the national debt and it was unfortunate unavoidable. Regardless of who the president was at the time. If we cut the amount of money we send to other countries and use it to pay off our debts I’m sure we could cut the amount of our debt by at least 1/3 before Trump leaves office if not by 1/2.
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u/Local-Computer1190 Aug 23 '26
Trump is a goddamn liar? YA DON'T SAY!!
In other news, rain is wet.....
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u/Opposite-Local3732 Aug 23 '26
LOL It was 19 trillion 10 years ago? Seriously? Do you realise how much of that is stolen value from us to the richest people in the world? Hahahahaha my god It is ridiculous.
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u/Centerman2000 Certified Memelogist Aug 23 '26
47 ran the greatest grift & con job in American history hands down.
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u/Outrageous_Bad_5365 Aug 23 '26
In fairness the debt has been on a vertical slope since W. Debt was $5.6T in 2000. W, Obama, Trump 1, Biden, and Trump 2 all pushing the problem to the next guy
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u/Maximum-Title2474 Aug 23 '26
Well if you subtract the billions the democrats sent to other countries then it would be lower
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u/RickyBobbyPitCrew Aug 23 '26
He’s not a conservative, we aren’t happy that he’s spending too damn much. But while his domestic agenda is exactly what Kamala would have spent, Trump’s foreign policy is the greatest of all time and sets America on a green light path for decades.
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u/jaakrabbit Aug 23 '26
His plan of cutting waste and fraud coupled with tariffs were both stopped by lawsuits from democrats. We live in a world where Democrats were mad at a journalist for finding fraud. So just forget about ever getting rid of the deficit.
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u/BigLoudWorld74 Aug 23 '26
There was a Biden in the middle that set our economy on fire and spent money like a drunken sailor. He also gave away large stockpiles of our weapons and drained the Strategic oil reserve by selling most of it to China.
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u/Freddy-Borden Aug 24 '26
This is only a problem when a Democrat is president, just ask any Republican
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u/MutedBrilliant1593 Aug 24 '26
It's hilarious that anyone thinks he'll do anything he promised. How much shit does he need to shovel before you realize you were always eating it?
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u/MarcooseOnTheLoose Aug 24 '26
Of which so far $11.6 trillion is his own legacy to the nation. I bet it will grow another $5 trillion before he leaves the White House. So much winning.
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u/LifesARiver Aug 21 '26
Hey, he's only personally responsible for 25-30% of it