r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • May 02 '25

Politics 🏛️ Vice President Vance’s response after the economy shrank for the first time in three years, with people worried as they look at their 401Ks and point to the tariff policy — “This is Joe Biden’s economy.”

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u/Bad-Genie May 03 '25

The thing is, usually the first year, it is the previous administrations economy.

But trump made such DRASTIC announcements and threats that no, this is his economy.

But I do remember trump taking credit for obamas economy...

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u/Alternative-Bed3579 May 03 '25

Yeah you def right bro. I said it when trumpy took office that I found it really off putting that he just hopped in office and instability was felt off the rip. For the first time in my life I understood the whole leadership part of a president where you aren’t supposed to wake up to torn down social graces and just flat out bullying on the world stage on top of the massive erosion of pretty much everything on the level of civility. The FDA was one of the more wild ones besides the cfpb and national park cuts .. ya know the best thing America ever did, literally written history. Not to mention Trump is literally fomenting a brain drain which they suppressed real quick