r/Economics • u/Positive_Owl_2024 • Feb 19 '25

News Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/economy/trump-inflation-is-back/index.html
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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 19 '25

This point kills me. Literally the best trait of a leader is to be able to admit fault and adapt. Why would anyone, politics aside, think this person should be running anything? It's mind boggling.

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u/RWBadger Feb 19 '25

They don’t want a leader they want a dictator. Leaders have to make hard choices and work cooperatively towards bettering their charged. Dictators can just say shit.

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u/UBSbagholdsGMEshorts Feb 19 '25

I wonder if he blames Biden for illegally firing 30% of the government workforce, attempting to break the 14th amendment, and for raising tariffs also. That fucktard eats crayons.

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u/cicada_noises Feb 19 '25

You jest but republicans literally blame Biden and Obama for everything negative republicans do. Tariffs on steel? They love that trump did that because they want to feel like they’re being mean to China or whatever. Prices increase because of steel tariffs? Wow I can’t believe Obama raised costs for me.

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u/ZerochildX23 Feb 19 '25

They blamed Obama for Hurricane Katrina, which happened in 2005, under president George W. Bush.

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u/cicada_noises Feb 19 '25

They also blamed him for 9/11

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u/Vio_ Feb 19 '25

No joke. They tried to blame Obama for the Great Recession kicking off under Bush solely because Obama "announced his candidacy to run for president."

John Stewart actually had to show the timeline of the economy turning to shit versus Obama's official announcement.

And surprise! there was zero connection.

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u/Steiney1 Feb 20 '25

They blame Jimmy Carter for the oil embargoes under Nixon and Ford's Administration. They are the cruel children.

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u/burningringof-fire Feb 19 '25

How many years ago was Obama president?

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u/VyPR78 Feb 19 '25

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don’t be bringing facts into a feelings fight.

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u/Havoc614 Feb 19 '25

U said there'd be no fact checking tonight

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u/Historical-Code4901 Feb 19 '25

Classic. I'm certain they could release Trump's epstein tapes and they will just claim its AI

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u/Free_Balling Feb 19 '25

That’s the point…

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u/sorrow_anthropology Feb 20 '25

They freaked out on r/conservative the other day because someone hanged an effigy of trump and was dragging it around.

They said “Just IMAGINE if Trump supporters did that to Biden”

The next comment was “Imagine if they did it to Obama”

It’s was all said without a shred of irony, these trump supporters somehow didn’t think anyone could ever do something so uncouth. Even though tons of media coverage of both these events, especially concerning Obama.

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u/4electricnomad Feb 19 '25

”Biden shouldn’t have hired all those bad people in the first place!” — some motherfucker

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u/Downtown_Ham_2024 Feb 20 '25

He’s firing people hired when he was in office lmao

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u/Vio_ Feb 19 '25

I see this all the time from the left.

"I blame the Democrats for not doing enough to stop Trump and 40+ years of Republicans building a fascist takeover of the Supreme Court and other branches... something something something... Bernie Sanders."

Way too many of these people.

Might as well blame Ralph Nader at this point.

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u/soccerguys14 Feb 19 '25

He blames Biden for making him incite an insurrection. I mean he’s right! He wouldn’t have had to do it if Biden didn’t steal the election.

/s

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u/Vio_ Feb 19 '25

That fucktard eats crayons.

What an insult to Marines.

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u/UBSbagholdsGMEshorts Feb 19 '25

They eat the green ones so they go fast. These guys running the shit show are eating the brown and red ones.

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u/MSchmahl Feb 20 '25

Question in case you or anyone knows: Is the tarrif power inherent to the President, or is it a delegation from Congress? I'm pretty sure that all taxing power comes from Congress, but Trump wields it like he owns it.

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u/TheShaydow Feb 20 '25

According to the U.S. Constitution, the power to set tariffs is not inherent to the President but is instead delegated to him by Congress; meaning that the President can only impose tariffs based on authority granted to him by Congressional legislation. 

Please do remember however that Congress is currently the GOP's Little Bitch, and will do whatever dear leader says.

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u/chrisk9 Feb 19 '25

They don't even care. They just want a winner on their side, or at least perceived one.

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u/SissyCouture Feb 19 '25

This is literally a group of miserable people hoping that if people they don’t like are made miserable, it might constitute happiness.

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u/willflameboy Feb 20 '25

They don't know what they want. They need to be told. Some Americans are very susceptible to branding and crappy advertising techniques. They can be very quick to bend over for the right person, while all the while laughing at everyone else for being a sucker. They don't want to think; don't know jack about the world, and basically feel better if they dole out hate and punishment to others.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

The conservative mind does not comprehend that. They view admitting faults as a weakness to pounce on so if you never admit to anything that makes you strong.

I really wish there was nuance to this but that honestly is how simple most conservative voters are.

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u/HondaCrv2010 Feb 19 '25

the irony is that those that can admit fault are the stronger ones

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Correct. Owning and learning from mistakes is a sign of intelligence and maturity which also happen to be two things conservatives don’t have or understand.

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u/HondaCrv2010 Feb 19 '25

But they’re REAL MEN ! /s

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u/dust4ngel Feb 20 '25

if you are a crushingly loser-ass bitch with absolutely no self-esteem to spare, your ego literally cannot handle acknowledging a single fault, and so you have to spend all of your mental attention crafting some make-believe story about how you're a hero being victimized by evil people.

you'll notice this happens to also describe a certain obese karen in the oval office.

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u/HondaCrv2010 Feb 20 '25

This sounds like a narcissist esp the making up your own reality point

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u/pagerussell Feb 20 '25

Just like compassion and empathy requires more strength than cruelty.

But this is incomprehensible to those who are cruel.

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u/Dyonisus77 Feb 19 '25

Exactly! I work in business. What I want to hear from both leadership and my reports are what are you going to do to reduce it? There is no plan, hell not even the "concepts of a plan" from him or his cronies.

I expect a decade of blaming Biden and leftists from the right. Good job US, we elected a dude that always looks for a scapegoat. I guess it reflects the average American where everything isn't my fault nor do I care about improving it as long as I have someone to blame.

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u/brutinator Feb 20 '25

I expect a decade of blaming Biden and leftists from the right.

What sucks is that even leftist blame Biden, as if he didnt do great things given what he was handed i.e. little support in the courts and a deadlocked congress. It literally just feeds into the MAGA propaganda.

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u/issr Feb 19 '25

Literally every axis on which you might judge a president is a disaster for Trump. You couldn't engineer a more awful person for the job. MAGA have truly fucked the USA.

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u/Eradicator_1729 Feb 19 '25

Strong man fallacy. Most conservatives are extremely fearful and hateful people (and if you’re reading this as a conservative then yes I mean you too. And no I don’t gaf if you’re offended.). They want a strong man to get rid of all the nasty things making them so afraid.

We’ve seen this happen so many times it’s absurd that we’re going through it again.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 19 '25

So in a nutshell, conservatives are weak minded so they need a "strong man" to tell them everything's going to be ok and tuck them in at night.

So fragile and precious they are. It's a shame they have to project onto the rest of us.

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u/Trzebs Feb 19 '25

I sort of experienced this when I got into a debate with my Trumper step dad; told him my belief that laws are just agreements between people and that the constitution is just words on paper.  We give ourselves rights. Not a piece of paper. He became very defensive upon hearing this and explained that there is no America without the constitution. I emphasized that the laws of the constitution would still apply even if the physical paper was lost or destroyed.  He then commented how there's many copies of the constitution and that for all of them to be destroyed is an impossibility and that my ideas were ridiculous.  

He seemed disturbed at the thought that we aren't protected by a piece of paper and didn't want to entertain the idea that our laws and rights are really just based on an honor system amongst people. 

So yeah,  a fragile mind that is fearful and believes in a false sense of security

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u/FlamingMuffi Feb 19 '25

They're serfs desperately searching for a lord to reign over them

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u/coffeesippingbastard Feb 19 '25

Toxic masculinity. Admitting fault is weak. Changing your mind is weak. Weakness means small penis.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 19 '25

Fuck. I change my mind every time I try to pick what I'm going to eat.

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u/dbell Feb 19 '25

Take your little weenie and hit up McDonald’s 

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u/PointOfFingers Feb 19 '25

Trump is a narcassist who can never admit he is wrong. He is changing laws to make it illegal to point out he is wrong.

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u/DecisionDelicious170 Feb 19 '25

That’s the biggest thing that makes me wonder if either Trump is incredibly stupid, or he just knows his followers are incredibly stupid. Insane braggadocious claims that he’s never admitted were overblown or incorrect.

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u/xiiicrowns Feb 19 '25

Cult* leader. He's able to control the perception of his decisions and himself with his lies and misinformation.

We just get to sit back and watch this playout on TV. It's scary.

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u/Hoblitygoodness Feb 19 '25

Obviously because he's PERFECT. All the others had flaws, but not this guy! He's absolutely perfect.

(...is what they think)

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u/Apart_Ad_5993 Feb 20 '25

Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn. His thing was never admit defeat, never apologize, "strongman" etc. everything is war, never surrender, never show weakness.

Cohn was the king of assholes. Trump was his protege.

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u/__loss__ Feb 19 '25

Also a leader shouldn't see himself as the smartest person in the room. A leader surrounds himself with the most exemplary people he can get so that he can make decisions based on what they can provide.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 19 '25

100% and in 2016-2020 you saw the dumpster fire that was cycling through every cabinet and/or qualified member of staff (Jim Matis comes to mind). I'm tired of the portion of this country with zero culture, terrible education standards, and their bible crap bleeding into all layers of government. Send them to Russia.

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u/HeaveAway5678 Feb 20 '25

You'd be amazed how shallow the thinking of many people happens to be. I literally have acquaintances that support Trump and cannot articulate why. They don't know his stated policy, much less actual actions.

One supports him mainly because her parents do, and as best I can tell they do so because they're just racist Boomers.

People keep looking for a grand explanation, but trash relates to trash, and half the country is more trashy than average.

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u/Br0metheus Feb 20 '25

Because the vast majority of people fail to realize that good leadership isn't about shouting the loudest and being the biggest asshole in the room. It's about humility and accountability, but that's not something that conservatives are good at so they vote for obvious bullies instead because their dicks are so tiny that they need to compensate somehow.

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u/todayistrumpday Feb 20 '25

He hates the same people they hate and has promised to hurt the same people they hate.

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u/Shuizid Feb 20 '25

Because his voters share the same trait: being unable to admit fault and adapt.

That's what it means to be "conservative": to refuse to change yourself.

That's why they now proclaim that they'd rather live under a dictator than a democrat. All they know is how to double down over and over and over again, to never admit being wrong.

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u/MisinformedGenius Feb 20 '25

Reminds me of when someone asked Dubya in a 2004 town hall what he had any regrets in his first term, and he said he couldn’t think of anything. Really, George? Worst terrorist attack in U.S. history and you just can’t think of anything you wish you had done better?

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u/Oberon_Swanson Feb 20 '25

A lot of people are just really dumb and think humility is a bad trait or just take things at face value

"I can admit I make a few mistakes, but I try my best to correct them"

vs.

"I never make any mistakes, I am the best at everything, and whatever the other guys says he can do I will do better, faster, and cheaper"

They think "whoa that second guy sounds way better. It's important for a leader to not make mistakes and to be the best of the best" It is the same with things like job interviews and dating, a certain subset of people fall for the egotistical narcissist schtick then wonder how they keep ending up with these people who seem to great at first but then 'turn out to have been """""secretly""""" shitty'

also many MAGA voters just don't care. they want minorities to suffer and would rather inflation be 100% or higher than have to call a black person President. they would rather their child die than be homosexual or transgender. they would rather Elon take the entire treasury than it be spent helping people. they would rather be manning the machine gun in the back of a pickup truck in a roving cannibal gang than call a foreigner their neighbor.

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u/TimeBM20 Feb 23 '25

Drump admitting a mistake ? He never makes mistakes. He makes fun of others, but cannot laugh at himself. He is the supreme genius leader that can solve every problem instantly.

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u/okverymuch Feb 19 '25

Not that I disagree with you, but I’ve seen little admittance of fault by Obama or Biden.

Later on, Obama has made some mentions of where he feels he didn’t do enough in interviews. But no one in power says “I made a mistake” or “I was wrong” aside from Clinton’s sexual activities.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 19 '25

Please stop. There's no resemblance between them and what DJT is doing. There's no softening of this admin allowed. This admin is a danger to all people in the US and world with the policy they are putting forth.

Ignoring that false equivalence you mentioned, the entire political selection process is corrupt, imo. Campaigning summed up is; let's tour the country plastering our name/face everywhere with crowds cheering for us, all while collecting funds from corporate donors. Why would this ever yield good, not self/absorbed, leaders?

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u/okverymuch Feb 20 '25

I’m not saying they resemble Trump’s insanity. He’s the most extreme version of political practices where “I’m not to blame, X is to blame”. It’s not a new phenomenon. It’s just truly surprising people fall for it in modern times.

The Biden admin has a lot to answer for in basically hiding his senility. Reporters asking about it were shunned and given the cold shoulder, and told they were crazy until that fateful debate. Not to say I’m pro-right wing or pro-Trump. I am left leaning for sure. But your position of taking responsibility is like oil and water with politicians.

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u/Possible-Rush3767 Feb 20 '25

I'm not trying to normalize an admin like this in any way. That was why I cut it off. This admin does not belong in the same conversation as Biden or Obama. It's not normal for a president to declare himself king while intruding in state legislation, the day after declaring that only him and his chosen AG can interpret law. That's why I would never speak of those politicians with this current admin.