When the Commerce Department reported an 0.3% drop in Real Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of the year, the so-called gold standard of measuring the economy, President Trump blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden. GDP under Biden was up 2.8% for all of 2024. That’s a particularly healthy number, and in fact the last time the US economy shrunk was the first quarter of 2022, the beginning of Biden’s first full year in the White House.

As any pundit and most voters will tell you, we have been in Trump’s economy since at least January 20. President Trump has even claimed the bull market on Wall Street over the last year as his stock market because of stock traders’ anticipation of his laissez-faireattitude toward government regulation (though certainly not toward free trade).

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