#tr*mp and cronies biggest domestic threat to USA

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"As the economy shows signs of cooling, many executives sour on Trump"

**Excerpted from The Maddow Blog, MSNBC, 002-28-2025**.

As Election Day 2024 arrived, the U.S. economy had reached an extraordinary sweet spot, featuring strong growth, low unemployment, falling inflation, record highs on Wall Street, and low gas prices. The Washington Post’s Heather Long explained in an October column, “We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes.”

The same day, the British publication, also described the U.S. economy as “the envy of the world,” adding that the American economy had “left other rich countries in the dust.”

After Election Day, all Donald T*ump had to do was avoid screwing it up. The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell explained in a*column, “How could Donald Trump deliver on his promise to fix the U.S. economy? On Day 1, [he] should simply proclaim he’s already fixed it — and go play golf. By which I mean: Declare victory but do absolutely nothing else.”

The Republican pres-ident, of course, had a very different approach in mind, and at least so far, the results haven’t been great. The New York Times reported this week [May 24-28, 2025], “The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain as Pres-ident Tr*mp’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs on America’s largest trading partners rattle businesses and reverberate across states and cities.”

The latest data on consumer confidence doesn’t look great. The latest data on inflation expectations doesn’t look great. The latest data on new unemployment claims also doesn’t look great. The latest data on consumer spending — you guessed it — doesn’t look great.

Even on Wall Street, the major stock market indexes — which Tr*mp has long obsessed over — are lower than they were on Inauguration Day, and behind the pace of the major indexes abroad. [Remainder omitted.]