Staff Reports
Former President Donald Trump did what he does best over the weekend: he took a decisive jab at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the global stock markets were tumbling faster than an old Western saloon door. Reports indicated that this wasn’t just a slip-up; markets across the world seemed to be in a freefall, reminiscent of the famed stock market crash of 1987 when Japan’s Nikkei index lost nearly 4,000 points in a single day. Trading in Japan was suspended after plummeting almost eight percent, while South Korea’s stock market registered its worst performance since 2008. It seems that the only thing not affected by this chaos is the Democrats’ ability to dodge the blame.
Trump, no stranger to calling out the current administration’s failures, took to his favorite platform, Truth Social, to express his skepticism. He pointedly claimed that the crash was a direct result of “inept U.S. leadership.” Who could argue with that? Under Biden’s watch, the economy has seen its fair share of “whoopsies,” with inflation spiraling upward, supply chains disappearing, and now, the markets taking a nosedive. It’s as if Biden thinks he’s on a rollercoaster—up one minute, down the next, and leaving everyone dizzy.
"I cured the economy."
— Joe Biden (six days ago)pic.twitter.com/SMsXKVfljw
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 5, 2024
The former president didn’t shy away from expanding on his sweeping theories. He shared musings from financial mogul Howard Lutnick, who asserted that this stock market debacle is a precursor of what’s to come in a world that has unleashed Biden and Harris upon the unsuspecting public. Trump echoed Lutnick’s sentiment, suggesting that we’d still be prospering as a nation if he was still in charge. After all, markets seem a tad skittish when they have to play nice with Harris, who, according to Trump, likely thinks “bull markets” refer to her favorite kind of steak.
In a fervent rallying cry, the former leader warned of a potential “Great Depression of 2024,” complete with Kamala’s cringeworthy performance in the economic arena. The overreaching rhetoric didn’t stop there; Trump made it clear that the “Radical Left Lunatic” would send California further down the rabbit hole it’s already in. If anyone thought the “Great Reset” was a plan for economic stability, they clearly haven’t been paying attention to the state of governance collapsing under the weight of these Democratic leaders.
As if that wasn’t enough, Biden recently claimed—just six days prior to the market meltdown—that he’d “cured the economy.” This proclamation is practically begging for punchlines. How a man can simultaneously diagnose and treat major economic malaise while watching the stock market tank like it’s a weekend sports event is a profound mystery. Yet, as the data rolls in, it looks like voters are faced with only two choices: the economic renaissance of the Trump era or the disastrous freefall ushered in by a leadership team more and more resembling a bad sitcom. Perhaps it’s time to turn off the reruns and put on something that doesn’t induce collective facepalms.
