re: Would we be in a recession under a Trump second term?

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At the end of 2020 our national debt was $26.9 trillion. Of that, Trump was responsible for $6.7 trillion. That's 25% created by Trump. A so called conservative. So, no. I dont think we'd be doing that much better.

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Funny that the Trump worshipers think of him as some kind of fiscal conservative and economic genius. He was not.

Now tell me WHO was responsible for these spending packages. What were these trillions used for?

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On President Trump's first day in office (January 2017), the total debt load of the nation was $19.947 trillion.

So, over the course of a little less than 4 years, the United States added roughly $7.733 trillion in debt.

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States, the national debt load of the country was $23.442 trillion. So, despite the relatively strong economy, the country had still added $3.5 trillion in debt.

Since the start of the pandemic, the nation has added an additional $4.24 trillion in debt, all over the course of 10 months. This number will continue to expand rapidly over the foreseeable future, as more stimulus is expected under President-elect Joe Biden.

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Covid spending is the wafer thin mint. Nobody wants to accept that the QE for the last 10-12 years is the big culprit especially when it comes to inflation. We kept interest rates ridiculously low for the last 10 years because we wanted spend spend spend. Buy a new house, get a 60k truck....finance it all. Then take out Home Equity lines do an addition to the house, granite counters, wood floors. shite, take out the HELOC, buy that truck....the interest is cheaper and up until recently tax deductible. Wall Street was using cheap money for stock buy backs. Then comes Covid and the spending on that. Covid stimulus becomes the tipping point and then Putin invading Ukraine becomes the guy that feeds the mint to the fat man.

We would have probably started to feel the effects of inflation starting about now even without Covid if everyone on here had gotten Trump's and many other's wish to lower rates to zero 4 years ago. Probably not as severe as it is currently, but it was bound to happen.

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Would we have had a downturn? Yes, simply due to factors like inflation. Would it have been this severe? No, because Trump wouldn’t have done a lot of the stupid shite Biden did like cancelling Keystone which had a long term negative effect on the oil and gas industry.

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Bingo. We have a recession and hyperinflation. Trump policies would have prevented hyperinflation. Gas would be under $2 and food prices would be similar to 2019, if not less

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It’s exactly why Trump let the stolen elections occur. He couldn’t handle having a recession tarnish his legacy. Once he knew how fricked the country was going to be, he let the cheating occur, knowing the democrats will be known for this recession. He’ll come back, win, get this country back on track and strengthen his legacy even more.

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A lot of this for everyday consumer prices is built around increased fuel costs. Clearly Trump would have had us in a better place with domestic production than Biden does. On that alone being a big chunk hard to argue we’d be in the same place

NO NO NO

Everyone slutted themselves out for $1200 for stimmy checks and look where that got us

It was not worth it at all

No.

Other questions:
-Would we have left Americans to die in Afghanistan?
-Would trannies be converting our youth?
-Would China and Russia be confident they can take over the globe?
-Would our cities be crime ridden cesspools?
-Would our southern border be a seive for criminals and drugs?
-Would we be wasting hundreds of billions on worthless climate initiatives and Ukraine?
-Would gasoline be 2x what it was?

Just a few off top of my head.

No. There wouldn’t be a war on petroleum.

We wouldn’t be sending 100b to Ukraine.