‘Utter Disgrace’: Trump Slammed After Admitting He Hopes Economy Crashes This Year
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump "grotesque" for his comments.
Critics are calling out Donald Trump for saying he’s hoping for an economic crash this year.
Stocks are surging, unemployment is near historic lows and the nation appears to have avoided a predicted recession. Yet Trump claimed on Monday that the economy is “fragile” and running on “fumes” as he warned of a crash.
“And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s gonna be during this next 12 months, because I don’t wanna be Herbert Hoover,” Trump told Lindell TV host Lou Dobbs. “The one president, I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”
Hoover was president during the 1929 stock market crash, which plunged the nation into the Great Depression.
Speaking on MSNBC, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Trump may need “an intervention” from his family.
"Bet you did nazi that coming," the billionaire wrote.
A new report is yet another sign of the growing gap between the European Union's push for clean energy and the new Trump White House's pursuit of more fossil fuels.
The president's remarks came as another major fire broke out in California.
Private Eye apologized "unreservedly" for its previous critical coverage of the president. But then came an utterly brutal twist.
"It just makes no sense at all," said Andrew Weissmann, who also predicted how it could spectacularly backfire.
Former prosecutor Elie Honig described it as "very heavy-handed."
Trump's own actions stand in direct contradiction to Miller's claim.
It's the latest in a feud between the two billionaires that started on OpenAI’s board and is now testing Musk’s influence with the new president.
“Glad to see that our campaign for truth and transparency through the @FCC won’t be stopped," a conservative group wrote after the news.
The executive order, which requires federal documents to reflect sex assigned at birth, has sparked concern among trans Americans.
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was also handling Trump’s coup attempt case, said the pardons would not change “the historical record.”
The political pundit suggested the podcast host was a hypocite by posting a photo of her in a sexy outfit with the caption, "This you?"
Police say a 17-year-old shooter killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a Nashville high school.
Russell Vought, likely to return as director of the Office of Management and Budget, echoed the former House speaker's criticism of the social safety net.
The independent senator said there's a "small number of very wealthy people controlling what we see, hear and read" that "have kind of caved in to Trump."
Mittens, a Maine coon cat, accidentally flew three times between New Zealand and Australia this month after her cage was mistakenly left in the plane’s cargo hold.
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
The president has pushed the baseless claim for years.