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    Heute vor 10 Jahren versprach Trump, die Staatsschulden abzuschaffen. Stattdessen hat es sich verdoppelt.

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    2. Ancient_Popcorn on

      As with everything else Republicans say, the opposite holds true. Republicans constantly explode the deficit and debt. Trump just took that practice to the next level by diverting the funds to himself.

    3. Vast-Butte-Futures on

      And note how much of that increase is due to his policies. Typical Republican economic management.

    4. whateveryousaymydear on

      lawmakers are known to promise exactly what they know you want…problem is those that keep believing

    6. BlotchComics on

      lol… the comments section of every reason.com article is always a dumpster fire. Just MAGAts blaming Biden and „illegals“.

    7. returnofthecursed on

      Republican policies are disastrous for the health of our overall economy and for regular people. The myth of Republican „fiscal conservatism“ is a joke, they spend and spend and spend, as long as they’re spending on things that actively harm regular people in the US.

      For instance, just this month they started spending a billion dollars a day to bomb children and civilian infrastructure in Iran.

    8. travio on

      For republicans, deficits only matter when dems are in charge. That goes beyond deficits, even. Hell, the rule of law only applies to dems for republicans.

    9. 1cl3nstd4yt on

      Well yeah, he lies about everything.

      Dude is incompetent. Before he started enriching himself illegally through the Oval Office, his finances were a disaster.

    10. WritesAndPrivileges on

      Trump literally just said whatever he knew people thought they wanted to hear. And they elected him twice because he makes it okay to be racist.

    11. Knightro829 on

      Have to say it’s been fun watching Reason’s epic crashout of late. Y’all voted for this shit. Reap what you sow…

    12. kittenTakeover on

      He also says he loves LGTBTQ and Latino people. Almost like he’s the biggest liar to ever hit politics in the history of the US, which is saying something.

    15. Frustratedtx on

      The only way Trump has ever eliminated debts is by bankrupting a company and sending it into chapter 11. He’s treating the US like one of his Casinos.

    23. alabasterskim on

      And a potent reminder: Trump has been president for 6 of these last 10 years and Republicans have controlled at least one chamber of Congress for 8 of the last 10 years. That 2 year Dem trifecta didn’t do this. **Trump did**, as every Republican always does. Yes, it increased under Biden (and before him, Obama), but the deficit had decreased and the bleeding was slowing. Trump was handed a gem of an economy (twice) and if he had done *nothing* he’d be seen as an excellent president. But he can’t help it; he has to put his hands on things. And when he does, every time, what he touches turns to shit.

    24. lotta_love on

      “Trump promise” is a contradiction in terms—like a pyromaniac pledging to fight forest fires, or a Republican feigning concern for protecting women’s health.

    25. Remarkable_Screen_88 on

      „it has doubled“ alone? on its own? it’s no one’s fault, right? certainly not that guy that promised to lower it

    26. trisul-108 on

      If you believed him then, you will continue to believe him now.

      If 50,000 proven lies meant nothing to you and you still voted for him, why should anything change. Why are we even discussing „Trump lied“. Of course he did.

      The news would be find a single sentence uttered by Trump that does **not** contain a lie, half-truth or manipulation. A single sentence. Does it even exist?

    28. coreychch on

      And people seriously thought a narcissistic man-child who is totally inept would follow through and make this happen?

    29. Chemical-Fault-7331 on

      Anyone who bribed that a conman who has gone through several bankruptcies could understand how to balance a budget / run a surplus is just fucking stupid.

    31. Menanders-Bust on

      You can find clips of him promising a new health care plan to replace the ACA ever since 2016, multiple times per year. Most promise a bill being signed in the next 2-4 weeks. He’s full of shit. He just says whatever comes to mind without any real knowledge or intention of following through. That’s one reason I don’t even watch his speeches. It’s pointless talk. You could literally have a chatbot tell you predictions at random and those would be more likely to occur than anything Trump says.

    34. Resident-Writing850 on

      So Americans hired a six time bankruptcy guy, who managed to bankrupt a typically higher profit margin business, like casinos, because they thought he would help the economy?

      And Americans thought the guy who didn’t pay his own bills was going to care about the national debt?

      This country has some serious mental issues.

    35. Secret_Account07 on

      All those fiscal conservatives stopped talking about spending real quick, huh?

    37. Fit-Significance-436 on

      He’s just warming up, national debt will double under him….someone make a Kalshi prediction on mess he leaves.

    38. Abystract-ism on

      Well, he is probably considering having the US declare bankruptcy to “eliminate the national debt”.

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