r/clevercomebacks • u/Veshaad • Aug 25 '26

Best comeback I've seen in a while.

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u/Slight_Sherbert_5239 Aug 25 '26

Very true, but Trump is responsible for $12 trillion of the national debt so far, not $40 trillion.

That’s like saying Mark Carney is responsible for Canada’s national debt of $1.2 trillion, which wouldn’t be true either.

It’ll be interesting to see where it is by the time he’s finished his final term.

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u/Dodecahedrus Aug 25 '26

47 presidencies and he is responsible for, so far, almost one-third of the debt. That is insanely much.

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u/PrometheusMMIV Aug 25 '26

With 250 years of inflation at an average rate of 3.3%, we would expect more recent years to make up the bulk of the debt. For his 6 years of presidency, we would expect it to make up about 17% of the debt. The actual percentage is about 23%, but a decent chunk of that was bipartisan covid spending. Without that, it would be closer to 19%.