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Trump tells business chiefs he needs 'little bit of time' as US economy shrinks (www.bbc.com)

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Donald Trump has asked for more time on the US economy as it contracted for the first time in three years, stoking recession fears.

He claimed the figure was misleading because companies had stockpiled imports ahead of his imposition of tariffs.

The US economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.3%, the US commerce department said, a sharp downturn after growth of 2.4% in the previous quarter. It comes as Trump marks 100 days in office, with opinion polls indicating public discontent over his economic stewardship.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's two separate thoughts tho, trump and his supporters can't keep two thoughts in their head at once.

If they pre-bpught to avoid tariffs (unlikely due to little warning) then that's been propping up this quarter. So it would have been worse and will make the transition even worse.

There's no way out of this, and no rational people to save anything. Shits going to be really bad, the silver lining is it's going to get unignorably bad so historically that leads to a FDR type government that actually fixes shit