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One campaigned on reducing the deficit; one did not. It seems reasonable to expect a smaller deficit from the one who campaigned on that, doesn't it?
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
One campaigned on reducing the deficit; one did not. It seems reasonable to expect a smaller deficit from the one who campaigned on that, doesn't it?
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- cosmicgadget 1y agoUnless he has a track record of promising things and not delivering. Perhaps even on this specific issue.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoWoah, all the replies are misreading me in the same way. Yes, Trump seems to lie even more than a normal politician. In that sense, sure, you shouldn't expect that he's going to do anything about the deficit. You knew (or should have known) that when you voted. But what I meant was, because he ran on the issue, we have grounds to judge him for not doing what he said, in a way that we would not have been able to judge Harris had she won.
- getlawgdon 1y agoTrump is a lifelong pathological liar (among other things). There is no meaning in anything he promises. He has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. He is a lecherous, repulsive menace.
- hypeatei 1y agoYou're aware that he served a first term where you could've looked at his track record with deficit spending, correct? Before COVID, while the economy was doing good, Trump was still spending government money like crazy. See: https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt