Appearing on the debut episode of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Mike Lindell-owned right-wing propaganda network Lindell TV Monday, Donald Trump was interviewed by MAGA toady and former CNN and Fox “Business” host Lou Dobbs. During that interview on Lindell TV, Trump rootedforan economic crashto happen within the next year to help his election odds.
Former President Donald Trump predicted the US economy would “crash,” saying he hoped it would do so within the next year – before he would assume the Oval Office should he win a second term in November.
“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. The one president – I just don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump said in an interview that aired Monday on the right-wing platform Lindell TV.
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Trump, who regularly attacks Biden over his economic policies, described the economy as “so fragile” in the interview and claimed it was “running off the fumes” of the Trump administration.
Victor Reklaitis at MarketWatch:
‘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 — what the Trump administration [did], 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.’
— Donald Trump
That line above was spoken by former President Donald Trump in an interview with pundit Lou Dobbs that aired Monday night, as Trump continued to criticize President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S. economy and to predict that a crash would hit markets SPX.
Herbert Hoover was president when U.S. stocks crashed in 1929.
A spokesman for the Biden White House, Andrew Bates, blasted Trump for his comment, saying in a statement that a commander-in-chief’s duty is to “always put the American people first; never to hope that hard-working families suffer economic pain for their own political benefit.”
Steve Benen at MSNBC.com’s MaddowBlog:
Ahead of Election Day 2020, Donald Trump repeatedly warned the public that if Joe Biden were elected, the U.S. economy would collapse. His rhetoric wasn’t based on anything real or substantive; he just hoped to scare voters into re-electing him.
It led the Republican to declare at the final debate of the 2020 cycle, “They say the stock market will rule if I’m elected. If he’s elected, the stock market will crash.”
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But what mattered most in this on-air interview was Trump’s striking candor: He expects an economic crash, and he wants it to happen relatively soon so that it doesn’t hurt him politically. The likely Republican nominee is apparently rooting for economic conditions that cause widespread suffering in a way that wouldn’t make him look bad.
It’s one thing when a presidential hopeful thinks along these lines but has the good sense not to share such thoughts on camera. But Trump doesn’t see the need for a filter: He’s hoping for his own country’s economy to take a sharp downturn, indifferent to the consequences, just so long as it happens quickly so it wouldn’t cause him any PR inconveniences.
Trump’s rooting for an economic collapse is disgraceful and anti-American behavior, and it also serves why he should NOT be re-elected for office again.
From the 01.08.2024 edition of Lindell TV’s Lou Dobbs Tonight: