What If A Dem President Made Nice With A Communist Dictator And Threatened To Bomb A Mid-East Ally - Like Dotard?

 

               Kim plays Trump to the hilt back in 2019, gets nukes in return

Hwasong - 17 North Korean ICBM capable of hitting U.S.

Trump acting in American interests? Is that a joke? His Communist buddy in North Korea is sending soldiers to Russia for the invasion of Ukraine and weapons to Iran. If a Dem were doing that, magas would be screaming 'treason'.- WaPo Comment

Trump made the biggest unforced error in American Presidential history by attacking Iran senselessly and incoherently. He’s the most incompetent President in American history. Our enemies couldn’t be happier with him. The sooner he’s gone, the better off we’ll all be. .- WaPo Comment

After seeing Trump's antics last week- or more accurately, treasonous betrayals - such as giving North Korean dictator what he wants and threatening to bomb a Mideast ally (Oman). One must ask how the media (or the GOP)  would react if a Democratic president pulled such stunts. I will tell you:  A thunderous roar would erupt across the land, calling for immediate impeachment, or outright removal under the 25th amendment. 

Histrionic? Hysterical? Consider: Trump decided last week to scale back military exercises with South Korea, even as he described North Korea's communist dictatorship (100 times more malignant than Fidel Castro's) as "unthreatening and respectful" (WSJ, 8/18, p. A14). This even as Pyongyang is deploying ICBMs aimed at California (see above image of one of them, the Hwasong -17).

 How much more evidence does the rightist media (like FOX, OAN, the WSJ) need before they recognize either a traitor inhabits the White House, or a raving lunatic? All I see across the board is fuming and fidgeting over ‘democratic socialists’ (like me) and meanwhile a 5-time draft dodging Jan. 6th insurrectionist betrays allies as he rekindles bromance with the North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un. Which began even earlier this year with a freeze on $14 billion of military aid to Taiwan - to make North Korean partner China happy.

No, you cannot make this shit up. It is as real as a heart attack and our nation is in this traitor (or lunatic's) maw.  As former Nation Security advisor John Bolton wrote in his Op-Ed Wednesday (Pyongyang’s Threat Rises, With an Assist From Trump, p. A13)

"President Trump put North Korea and its rogue nuclear-weapons program back in the spotlight on Sunday. The president ordered the Defense Department “to substantially reduce” this week’s annual U.S.-South Korean military field exercises to defend against a potential attack by the North. He made the same unilateral concession in his first term, a mistake that is even worse now.

At the 2018 Singapore summit to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized the annual defense maneuvers. As I wrote later, Mr. Trump agreed “that the exercises were provocative and a waste of time and money.” He decided that “there would be no exercises as long as the two sides were negotiating in good faith.” Essentially repeating these points in his Sunday social-media post, Mr. Trump wrote that the exercises were “costly” and “totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which has been “unthreatening and respectful” during his presidency."

Last weekend's WSJ editorial was even more blunt but still reluctant to follow the logic that this infernal orange fart either has to be a traitor or a certifiable loon - in either case unfit to hold the office he occupies.  Bolstering Bolton's Op-ed  the WSJ editors laid into his act of appeasement to North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un ('Trump Romances Kim Jong Un Again, Aug. 18, p. A14) writing: 

"President Trump is nothing if not impulsive, and his latest brainstorm is to rekindle his courtship of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.  He announced Sunday evening - where else? - on his social media that he ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce military exercises with South Kirea" which were set to start on Monday.

Mr. Trump cited his 'very good relationship' with Mr. Kim, adding that any military exercises 'send a signa that is totally inappropriate and hostile to a country that as long as Donald J. Trump has been President has been unthreatening and respectful."

Which last words must have had the WSJ  editors gagging as they wrote them, given what actually transpired is that Kim had his minions constructing nuclear test facilities even as he was wining, dining and charming the orange buffoon during his last visit in his 1st term.  The clever subterfuge - based on the insight one only had to feed Trump's ego to blind him- enabled the North to get its nuclear weapons much faster and also make great strides toward developing an ICBM  (Hwasong-17) to deliver them. Not to mention submarine-launched missiles as well as land based.  Indeed, Kim fired a missile off just days before the planned U.S. - South Korean exercises, e.g.

Why has North Korea fired a missile before US-South Korea drills? | Weapons News | Al Jazeera

Which maybe explains why the WSJ editors were none too happy about Trump's moves writing:

"To the contrary pulling back from the exercises sends a message of weakening deterrence and readiness against a regime that has a history of threats and aggression against the South.  The North had protested as usual against the exercises and Mr. Trump's order is an act of appeasement toward Mr.Kim.

And what did he get for his appeasement and obeisance to Kim Jong Un?According to a Aug. 20, WSJ lead story (North Korea rejects Trump’s drills-cut overture as an empty gesture, p. A1)

“North Korea gave an icy response to President Trump’s decision to end joint Washington-Seoul military exercises early, calling it an ineffectual goodwill gesture toward the Kim Jong Un regime.

The drill reductions don’t merit interest or comment because nothing has fundamentally changed, said Kim Yo Jong, the dictator’s younger sister, in a Wednesday evening statement carried by North Korean state media."

Of course, a predictable response, given Kim & Co. already manipulated everything they needed out of Trump by feeding his ego. Plus they've wrangled plenty of technology and  equipment from new buddy boy Putin. (WSJ, 'Trump Tries Old Ploy To Woo Kim Jong Un', Aug. 18, p. A6).  Bottom line, Kim already got everything he needs from Trump and doesn't want any more. Oh, except finally being recognized as another nuclear state. (If Trump accedes you can be certain Iran won't relent until it also joins the nuclear club.)

Now  add to all that Captain Bonespurs' other outburst, after he vowed to "bomb the shit out of Oman" (a powerful Middle East ally) if they "get in the way" of his machinations.  According to The Journal (p. A1, Aug. 18, 'Frustrated Over War, Trump Threaten Ally Oman'):

"Trump's frustration with his inability to end the nearly six-month war with Iran boiled over Monday into again threatening to bomb Oman, the latest U.S. partner to draw the president's ire over his view that the country is doing little to resolve the conflict.

"I don't think they behaved very well, but we'd handle them very easily like we did the others", Trump said Monday in the Ova Office. Earlier he had told FOX News in a phone interview "If Oman gets in the way we'll bomb the s---t out of them."

THIS is how the leader of the free world acts? Like a 5-year old in the throes of a hissy fit because he doesn't perceive an ally "behaves very well"?  Unaware the frustrations have all been derived from his own TACO behavior - claiming a great peace deal with Iran one day, then retracting it and vowing' hellfire and missiles' the next, then standing down again.  (Because he knows he can get the DOW to shoot back up.)

Having deduced Trump is unstable and untrustworthy in any talks we learned Iran's Revolutionary Guard "took full advantage of the ceasefire period and enhanced its capabilities, accelerated missile production and improved missile accuracy" (WSJ, 8/20, 'Iran's Plan To Escalate the War').

Iran also knew Trump's missile & drone stock was so low he no longer had enough to rain 'fire and brimstone' even if he wanted to. Apart from which the Iranians concluded Trump was now merely marking time and every further threat was hollow.  Indeed, anyone with a brain knows Iran effectively won from day one, with the closing of Hormuz after Trump and Netanyahu initiated the attack:

 "He lost the war on Day 1" — Paul Krugman Exposes Iran War Failure

 Hence, it's paved the way for an 'L' which Dotard has yet to accept. The rest as they say is history, and with it the end of Trump's delusions of American Empire, e.g.

The Professor Who Predicted the Iran War: This Is How America's Era Ends - And It’ll Only Get Worse

So the Orange traitor and fungal rotting renegade got zero, nada, for his obeisance to the North Korean dictator and will get nothing but bupkis from Iran or Oman, nor from Canada now - which started a trade war instead of accepting his 50% tariffs. But woe betide us if we take our attention off this dingbat.  As the WSJ editorial ends:

 "Frustrated by his decline in the polls and the lack of a clear victory against Iran, Mr. Trump is likely to become even more volatile in his foreign policy moves. Without the late Lindsey Graham to warn him away from bad decisions will other Republicans in Congress and inside the Administration speak up?"

I would wager here no more than you guys have, and at least to the extent of removing this batshit Orange Turd by the 25th amendment.  A Democratic president pulling the same shit - say like a President Gavin Newsome - would definitely have been impeached and removed by now. So why not Trump? Why is this senile fart untouchable?

See Also:

North Korea | South Korea

Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?

by John Feffer | August 20, 2026 - 4:28am | permalink

— from Foreign Policy In Focus

In a fit of pique, Donald Trump recently scaled back the big annual military exercise between the United States and South Korea. He would have canceled it altogether if the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield training hadn’t already started. The U.S. president cited as the reasons for his action the cost of the exercise and that it was “totally inappropriate and hostile” toward North Korea.

Trump also rationalized his show of disrespect for South Korea—or, at least, for the South Korean military—by complaining that Seoul hadn’t given him enough support for the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Back in April, at a press conference where he lambasted NATO for not sending warships to help open up the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said, “Who else didn’t help us? South Korea.”

Of course, neither did North Korea. In fact, Pyongyang quickly sided with Tehran after the initial attacks, denouncing the “illegal and reckless act of aggression” and adding that “the growing acts of U.S. hegemony witnessed by the international community are a clear example of its destructive role in undermining world peace and stability and the grave consequences that follow.”

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And:

Foreign Policy

Donald Trump Has Made the World Go Nuclear

by Heather Digby Parton | August 24, 2026 - 4:55am | permalink

— from Salon

Donald Trump has always believed himself to be an expert at what he calls “nuclear,” due to the fact that his uncle, John Trump, was a physicist who taught at MIT. The president has made it clear on numerous occasions that his uncle’s expertise transferred to him due to the Trump family’s superior genes.

It’s too bad Dr. Trump died in 1985, because the president could use a refresher course on the subject. He certainly hasn’t learned anything new by virtue of the Oval Office.

We may never fully know what led Trump to start his war with Iran, which has been going on for nearly six months. Whether he was feeling his oats after the successful kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro or by Israel’s assurances that the Iranian regime was so weak it would crumble quickly under American bombardment, Trump decided to make the move on impulse without having a specific goal or strategy other than “winning.”

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And:

U.S. withdraws from military exercises with South Korea set for next month - The Washington Post

And:

Brane Space: Make No Mistake, Kim Got The Better Of Dotard In The Singapore "Deal"

Phase Spaces In Plasma Physics - The Klimontovich Equation & The Liouville Equation (Part 1 Basics)

In addition to the Klimontovich equation, e.g.

 Examining Aspects Of The Klimontovich Equation Used In Plasma Physics

Plasma physicists also work with the Liouville equation, which provides an exact description of a plasma.  However, like the Klimontovich equation it is of no direct use, instead giving us a starting point for the development of approximate statistical theories.  These latter begin with distinguishing the behavior of particles from the behavior of systems. Specifically the Klimontovich equation describes the former, while the Liouville equation describes the latter.

To fix ideas, consider a basic basic 'system' of one charged particle. How do we go about its description? Let us say we measure the particle's position in a coordinate system using x₁   then the orbit of the particle - designated  X₁(t) is the set of positions x_i occupied by the particle at consecutive times t. Similarly, in velocity space one can denote the orbit of the particle as V_i(t)  which is the set of velocities of the particle at consecutive times t. But these are measured in a coordinate system v_i  for velocity space.  Then we end up with a phase space denoted: (x₁, v₁)  = ( _x1 , y₁ , z₁, _vxi, _vyi,  _vzi)

Meanwhile, the density of systems in this phase space is:

N(x₁ ,v₁ ,t) = d (x₁ -  X₁ (t)) d (v₁ -  V₁ (t))

Next, we consider a system of two particles. Particle 2 now has coordinate axes (x₂, v₂) which overlay the (x₁, v₁) coordinate axes.  In addition the orbit X₁ (t),  V₁ (t) (i.e. of particle 1), is measured with respect to the (x₁, v₁) coordinate axes while the orbit X₂ (t),  V₂ (t) (i.e. of particle 2) is measured with respect to the (x₂, v₂) coordinate axes

Plasma statistics, basically, reference a 6-D phase space.  But in Liouville's Theorem the approach is very different. Specifically, it is applicable to a 6No  - D phase space, where No is the number of particles in the system.  For a one particle system then No  = 1  so the system phase space is just 6D.   I.e. the system is represented by only one phase space point.

For a 2-particle system (No = 2) so the phase space is:

6 (2) D = 12D

And again there is only one phase space point for the system. In general for an No -particle system, though with 6No  - D phase space, there is still only one phase point. 

Recall the number density for a 1-particle system is written:

N = d (X₁   -    X₁ (t)) d (V₁   -   V₁ (t))

And for a 2-particle system:

N( X₁, X₂ ,V₁ , V₂ ) =

d (X₁   -   X₁ (t)) d (V₁   -  V₁ (t))d (X₂   -    X₂ (t)) d (V₂   -   V₂ (t))

And in general:

N( X_i.... X_n ,V_{i ....}V_n ) = å ^No _i=1      d (X_i   -   X_i (t)) d (V_i  -   V_i (t))

If no source or sink exists in the phase space then the number density must be conserved.  The conservation of N in the 6No - D phase space leads to:

¶ N / ¶ t +  å ^No _i=1  Ñ x  (X_i  · N) +å ^No _i=1  Ñv  (V_i  · N) = 0 

Where:

 Ñ x i  ·(X_i  · N)  =   X'_i  · N Ñ x i  N +   N Ñ x i  ·X'_i 

And:

Ñv i  (V_i  · N)= V'_i · Ñv i  N + N Ñ v i  · V'_i 

If we then identify:   X'_i  = V_i 

We arrive at:

 V'_i  =   q/ m [ E (X_i ) + V_i   x  B( X_i )

which is just Newton's 2nd law of motion (F = ma) in an EM -field.  

Suggested Problems:  

1. (a)Write the phase space dimension for a 3-particle system.

(b) Write out the number density for this system.

2. We saw  (x₁, v₁)  = ( _x1 , y₁ , z₁, _vxi, _vyi,  _vzi)  is a 6-dimensional phase space.  What would be the number of dimensions for the phase space:

 (x₁, v₁, x₂, v₂ )?

Write them all out in a bracket.

3.  Show how V'_i  =   q/ m [ E (X_i ) + V_i   x  B( X_i )

translates to Newton's 2nd law of motion.

(Hint: You need to incorporate the Lorentz force.)

National Debt Tops $40 Trillion - Raising Alarms Of Bond Market Instability (Including U.S. T-Bond Buybacks)

 

                      "And I still wanna add two trillion for my war of choice!"

So called “tax cuts” are really spending. They have the same net effect on the budget. Classifying a certain group as “job creators” who don’t need to pay their fair share - or saying that earnings from “capital gains” deserve favorable treatment is what got us into this mess. Two presidents - George W. Bush and Donald Trump, neither of whom won the popular vote the first time - each passed tax cut bills twice that have taken us from surpluses to MASSIVE deficits in just 25 years, one-tenth of our entire US history. Think we need Democrats to control all branches of government (and that includes the compromised and corrupt Supreme Court)? Heck yeah!!! It’s not too late. Democrats got us through WWI and WWII and the Depression and the Great Recession of 2008 - we can do this too! -  WaPo Comment

The news that the nation’s gross national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time on Wednesday, should have come as no surprise for anyone following the litany of fiscal fiascos of the Trumptards. This year alone, the U.S. is on track to borrow more than $2 trillion to help pay for its spending on the war of choice in Iran as well as the sweeping tax cuts that Reeps enacted in 2025 with their monstrously misnamed ‘big beautiful bill’ (BBB).  See e.g.

All You Need To Know About The 'Big, Beautiful Abomination' - And Why It Must Be Slain In The House

Look, it doesn't take a Mensa level IQ to figure out which party is responsible. Given debt is accumulated through annual budget deficits - meaning government collects less than it spends - The GOP must be the party to blame given their foundational, go-to policy has been TAX CUTS.  I.e. lessening revenue intake, insufficient funds to spend for anything - from defense to Social Security & Medicare.  This has been on after burners since the Reagan years and the moronic use of the Laffer curve, e.g.

The Untold Story Of The Reagan Tax Cuts? Conservo Parrots Still Remain Dishonest In Disclosure

The Deficit boogeyman didn't retreat until a Democrat, Bill Clinton, narrowed and eventually eliminated the federal budget deficit through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, which raised taxes on high-earning households and capped defense spending.

But then Gee Dumbya Bush grabbed the presidency in 2000, thanks to help from the Supreme Court. He immediately destroyed the Clinton economic gains with reckless tax cuts coupled with vast military spending when he launched his war on Iraq in 2003.

When he first ran for the White House in 2016, Trump – typical of his braggadocio- claimed he would “eliminate the national debt within eight years.”  But those of us with more than air between the ears knew that cockeyed boast carried about as much reality as when he promised in the 2024 campaign to ‘stop the Ukraine war on day one’  and “bring grocery prices down on day one” as well. Neither has happened, and in fact he basically washed his grubby little orange hands of Ukraine – letting Europe carry the burden – while alienating the NATO countries.

 As for food costs, they’ve spiraled out of control to the point most of the Middle Class has to go to dollar stores – even as gas hits over $4 a gallon. Let’s also recall that by the end of his first term the ignorant putz had increased the national debt by nearly $7.8 trillion in debt via his spending and GOP tax cuts.

And while the Neolib nabobs in the media carp about “the cost of  social safety net programs”, they’re mostly mum on how the Reeptards’ BBB bill and its cutting of nearly $1 billion from Medicaid, as well as cuts in subsidies to the Affordable Care Act – causing millions to leave the ACA and go without insurance. Then add potential cuts to Medicare which may require sequestration resulting in its own cuts.

When legislation significantly adds to the national debt, which already exceeds $36.2 trillion, it triggers “sequestration,” or compulsory budgetary reductions. In that scenario, Medicare cuts would be capped at 4 percent annually, or $490 billion over 10 years, the CBO reported in response to a request from Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pennsylvania), the top Democrat on the Budget Committee.

Make no mistake, any cut in Medicare funding would have a chilling effect on older Americans and people with disabilities at a time when a fast-aging population and rising health-care costs are already straining the system. Many hospitals, especially in rural areas, rely on Medicare for more than half of their funding

What form would such cuts take? From past proposals the most likely are:

- Beneficiaries would cough up co-pays for each visit (including traditional Medicare folks)

- Denial of access to most expensive options (i.e. My ER visit due to lung issues back in February, costing $27,000,  would have been denied.)

- Limited access to needed drugs, i.e. such as my ADT chemo drug Firmagon.

- Increased eligibility age - i.e. from 65 to 66 or 67.

- Limited primary physician (as well as specialist) access.

These are the most plausible cuts but don't assume the degenerate Reeps would not come away with more

Even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - when not yapping loopy twaddle ('it will pass, nothing to fret over') has at least been more forthright than most Reeps to explain why deficits are growing. He said  yesterday that spending associated with the war with Iran had forced the country to spend more on the military, and that tariff refunds had undercut the Trump administration’s progress toward reducing the deficit as a share of gross domestic product in 2025.  Getting the deficits under control is a big deal, given the alternative is that the bond market will step in and act the part of parent, i.e.

Brane Space: The REAL Reason For Trump's Retreat On Tariffs: An Early Morning Bond Market Selloff Shock

Yes, the $40 Trillion national debt level is indeed “an ominous milestone for an economy that sits on a shaky fiscal foundation after decades of borrowing”  in the words of one NY Times nabob. But be sure 90 percent of this is from the Reeps’ recklessness – which will now take a Dem intervention to dig out of, even partially.  We will also need the non-Trump party to protect the dollar as the world's reserve currency, which currently makes up roughly 57% of global foreign exchange reserves. Central banks worldwide hold it to stabilize exchange rates, back their own currencies, and facilitate international trade. This status lowers U.S. borrowing costs but the bond market just 'broke' -  with Japan dumping $26b in Treasurys while the U.S. is buying back its own bonds, e.g.

From:

EVERYTHING IS F*CKED | The Kyle Kulinski Show

This is confirmed by WSJ Finance columnist James Mackintosh ('Bessent's Treasury Play', Business & Finance, p. B1, today) noting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's decision to "double the size of buybacks of the longest yield Treasury bonds".   Of course, this is nuts because no debtor - even a nation - buys back its own debt! But what Bessent hoped to do is avoid the "panic-level" of 5% bond yield.  He succeeded given his move caused the "30-year Treasury yield to plunge a whole 0.1%."  Which Mackintosh aptly referred to as "fiddling around the edges."

Of course! Because what's REALLY needed is for other nations - namely China, Japan and maybe the Saudis to buy up U.S. debt in Treasurys. Not dump them! Nor is this the first time it's happened. Recall in April last year Charlie Gasparino - FOX News Business reporter- first broke the news of Japanese bond selloffs, e.g.

Charlie Gasparino: "It is the White House who capitulated" | Media Matters for America

Excerpt:

 "You know, Bessent knows this better than anybody, when you have yields on the 10-year rising to 5%, stuff starts shutting down when you have the lending market screwed up. By the way, who's dumping the bonds? Somebody asked him if it was China, right? It wasn't, it was Japan."

Mackintosh, in his WSJ piece today, goes on to note (p. B3): 

"Long bonds aren't being dumped because investors are worried about inflation...It's more a nasty combination of three trends only one of which Bessent has any control over:

- Government Deficits.  The U.S. government is expected by the International Monetary Fund to borrow 7.5%  of GDP this year - the most in the Group of Seven developed economies.

- The AI Boom: AI companies have moved from being capital-light software specialists to capital-hungry operators of AI data centers. Tapping the bond markets is one of the ways to finance the debt. (From an Aug. 18, WSJ report (p. B1) , "nine of the biggest tech companies have $3 trillion in 'off balance sheet' commitments", according to a Journal analysis of footnotes in a recent SEC filing.)

- Geopolitics:  The breakdown of the U.S. -led international order on trade (due to Trump's tariffs) is pushing other countries to be less reliant 0n cross-border supply chains.

All of this has led to a rise in inflation-adjusted real yields.   

And for a look at how this Trump & Co. tomfoolery will adversely affect the nation's balance sheet (and your pocketbook)  even more check out this Youtube video from Prof. Jiang Xueqin (who also forecast the U.S. would lose in the Iran conflict.)

What Happens to Your Money When the Dollar Loses Its Crown | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Assuming we can enhance the intelligence of the electorate enough to enable Ds back in some form of power, starting with the midterms, to halt the GOP-Trump tax cut madness, we might have a chance to save this country.  There will be no 3rd chances for nation already paying dearly for electing a power mad, malignant narcissist lunatic and his axis of sycophants and suck ups - in congress and the media.

 See Also:

Defending the Bonds

And:

TRUMP VIRAL DEBT COLLAPSE IS HERE - YouTube

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Oligarchy

Who’s Raking It In As the National Debt Explodes?

by Robert Reich | August 20, 2026 - 5:08am | permalink

— from Robert Reich's Substack

Friends,

The U.S. national debt has officially surpassed $40 trillion, months earlier than forecasters had expected — because of billions of dollars in lost revenue from Trump’s invalidated tariffs, Trump’s tax cuts (mostly to big corporations and the very wealthy), and the soaring costs of Trump’s war.

Trump’s hair-brained treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, says there’s nothing to worry about because the fiscal trajectory will stabilize. Investors obviously don’t believe him because they’re demanding much higher compensation for buying and holding American bonds. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries hit its highest level in nearly two decades this week, reflecting those growing concerns.

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And:

Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Democracy

And:

U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues - The New York Times

And:

 "No One Is 'Gutting' The Safety Net" - How The Wall Street Journal Editors Went Adrift In Their Own Codswallop

And:

Would Voters Really Turn The 'Goldilocks' Biden Economy Over To Trump's False Promises, Mega-Inflation & Recession? No Way!

And:

Donald Trump & GOP "Better For Economy" ? This Delusion Is Belied By The Facts