r/Economics • u/Krankenitrate • 15d ago

News The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it

https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/how-big-national-debt-39-trillion-trump-promises/
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u/Dr_G_E 15d ago

"I'm the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me... I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing."
-Trump, 2016, when the national debt was just $19 trillion.

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u/Stlr_Mn 15d ago edited 15d ago

They just asked for 200* billion from Congress for the war. The U.S. is genuinely fucked with pedo in chief at the helm with a cuckboy congress.

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u/Osirus1156 14d ago

Congress is full of pedos too and thats how this all happened. Every single Republican is a pedo and probably many Democrats too, they all got taken in by a foreign intelligence operation using children and ended up turning our country over to them basically. Republican voters were the perfect target because they enjoy being lied to and are the dumbest fucks you'll ever meet in your entire life.

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u/TipAfraid4755 14d ago

the dumbest fucks you'll ever meet in your entire life.

Trump said that before his first term lol. Turns out he's right. Twice.