Once again demonstrating that he only cares about himself, the Malignant Loser said that he would want the U.S. suffer an economic crash in 2024 rather than later. The disgraced loser was speaking to his cult member, the failed and delusional Lou Dobbs, and took credit for Biden's economic success, as Rolling Stone reports:
“'We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did,' Trump claimed. 'It’s just running off the fumes.'
'And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,' he continued, when pondering the idea of re-election. 'The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.'
Trump, who has previously claimed that the 'Biden administration is running on the fumes of the great success of the Trump Administration,' accomplished the feat of becoming the first president since Hoover to leave the country with fewer jobs by the end of his one-term presidency.
Under Trump’s administration the unemployment rate surged to 14.7 percent in April 2020 and by the time he left office the following January, the rate had receded to 6.3 percent. Many economists have pointed to the former president’s disastrous leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic as having exacerbated the country’s economic downturn at the time." (our emphasis)
Speaking of "running off the fumes," the Malignant Loser's economy relied on the "fumes" of eight years of economic growth that were accomplished under the Obama Administration. His hope that the economy crashes this year isn't based on not wanting to be the next Herbert Hoover, but on having a cudgel for the elections. He's also counting on the destructive right-wing MAGA cult in Congress to follow his instructions to shut down the government, impose budget cuts that would cripple the economy, and other means of sabotaging the economy.
