What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

I don’t think Trump will run in 2024 but I’m sure he will continue to tease it in order to cause the Democrat’s media handmaiden's heads to collectively explode. 

Trump has raised $102 million since leaving the White House to spread around and help Republicans in the 2022 mid-terms and the 2024 presidential election. Pretty good job of raising money since social media giants and the mainstream media have worked tirelessly to make sure his voice isn’t heard and continually tell lies about him, ad nauseam.

The only thing Trump is giving is his name to the other republican candidates I would be pretty confident he is not sharing a cent out of his portion of the money raised in the PAC the only bit will be the % that is allocated to the party the largest share is lining his pockets. There is enough evidence down the years that he does not pay his bills in full nor timely so why in god's name would he change his MO now?

The GOP won't see a penny of that money. Trump won't even pay Guliani, not a hope in hell he gives any of that money to anybody else. The man is a grifter.

Let it be clear I'm the last person to defend Trump, but I would've never thought GDP growth was worse under Trump than it was during our most recent global recession or the one in the early 1980s following the 1979 energy crisis?!

Does anyone have numbers handy? Is it purely pandemic economics viewed in isolation that we're talking about?

Positively delightful. Holy ****. You couldn't scroll past a comments section in 2016 without someone repeating the talking point about Obama's GDP, and how it never got above 3% annum, and how they didn't accept from Obama that would be a new norm. My Congressman, whom I make sure to engage with online, had a post 2 or 4 times a week during the election about that GDP, and how Trump was going to make it better.

Then came Trump.

And I asked Congressman Duncan: why do you suddenly not want to talk about the GDP anymore? Is it because it's at 2%, not 3%? Nothing.

Then it happened again in the next quarter, and then boom, Trump got a quarter above 3%, suddenly the GDP was a thing again, none of them could shut up about it - until they forgot that it was a quarter, and Obama had good quarters - Obama had a 5.5% quarter back in 2014, so they were celebrating a bit early. And then finally Trump managed to survive 4 quarters in office and - he just didn't hit the mark. 2.8%. In fact, even giving him any 4 consecutive quarters, he at best only got 3.3% in a year (which is not how its done, but that's Q3 Q4 2017 and Q1 Q2 2018) and that was wholly centered around the push for the tax cut and jobs act - which fizzled, because it didn't reduce the debt or increase employment: we're over $8T more in debt than when Trump got there, and we had 5 million fewer people working. But at the time, all those sudden tax waivers were a sugar rush on capital expenses like buying automation and moving factories overseas (oops) - and with all of that sugar, and pumping of the economy - it still just amounted to 3.3%, in the best possible light.

But the 1st quarter after the tax cut, and the quarter where the economy was basically just rebounding from the massive crash that just happened (-31.4% GDP, which they pretended never happened, then +33.4%, which they went NUTS about) those were the only times they wanted to talk shop about GDP, that, and the year I had to hear about it non-stop, because of their obsession with Obama, and trying to find talking points that worked against him.

How do you feel about him saying to the DOJ to "declare the election as corrupt and leave the rest to me and R. Congressmen"?

Why should years be excluded from a presidency though... It's not done for anyone else. The reaction to crisis is core part of the job.

How do I feel? I feel you foolishly fell for the NY Times lie and twisting of the truth. Look into the NY Times big lie if you don't believe me.

If you took an average of the previous 3 years and applied it to 2020, then the average GDP growth over the 4 years would be 2.5%. But even then, the GDP wasn't going to jump from 2.16% in 2019 to 5% or above regardless of Covid and especially with the uncertainty of the elections, so the point is moot.

With or without Covid, Trump's GDP growth would be mid-table.

Where do you stop? Can we adjust anything or just numbers that look bad for Trump?

He was in charge, he had both the responsibility and ability to make decisions that could have made a difference.

He chose not to. First he ignored it, then he blamed China, then he fought against anyone that disagreed with him and spent most of his time promoting false information.

Its on him. He failed the test, so much so that he couldn't keep himself from getting infected.

Adjust for things that don't suit is just another step into the era that there are no facts, just different ways of looking at things.

Can we all pick whatever aspects we like? If we take out deaths and cases then Trump did brilliant with Covid.

Don't blame me because you fell hook line and sinker the NY Times story where they twisted what Trump meant, and refused to show the context behind it, in their zeal to fit their own narrative.

Can you provide the correct context?