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Was it this bad this fast? I Seriously don't recall it being this bad.
It was horrible though. Maybe the COVID19 kinda overshadowed him. Though the time he asked that it be looked into to us UV light inside the body to treat the virus and the time he recommended injecting or drinking bleach were crazy
His term launched with the Muslim ban. He tried to repeal Obamacare until John McCain stopped him and he had to settle for tax cuts to the rich like every fucking Republican.
He tried to bully Zelenski into providing him dirt on Joe Biden and launched the Biden laptop scandal on no evidence. But that was after telling people to inject bleach for COVID.
The first three years he was largely restrained by a combination of his own incompetence and establishment Republicans. He relied on them to figure out how to govern. The 2025 people saw that andwent to work to see it won't happen again in their quest for Gilead.
It was pretty bad pretty quickly, but it was mostly changes in culture. Things like the "unite the right" rally happened pretty early on in his first term. Ultimately though, he was pretty hamstrung by an unreliable, rotating cast of supporting characters in his first term that weren't all on board with turning the country into Nazi Germany part two.
He's shed all of those people and now he's surrounded by dyed in the wool maga. The GOP and the makeup of the supreme court are also drastically different this time.
But it was terrible his first term, so terrible people don't even remember all or even most of it.
No, he didn't do anything to touch the economy until 2017 with that tax scam for the wealthy. And we saw the results of that with the Trump slump of the second half of 2018 - where he then bitched at the Treasury to reinstate quantitative easing (which built us up for the inflation shock post covid).
But none of those had such crazy results as tanking the global economy overnight.
The only difference is he’s got people who do his insane demented ideas now. It took him awhile to get the turd circus going brcause of all the old school fascist republicans he appointed. Evil but competent men who knew when shooting oneself in the crotch was a bad idea.
By 2018 he’d fired them tho.
Also the fact that it's his second (and last I'm pretty sure but damn I hate that I can't be 100%) term so you know, "Last time, YOLO!"