{"id":65917,"date":"2025-04-08T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65917"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:43:05","slug":"jon-stewart-obliterates-trumps-abysmal-economic-crapulence-trump-released-the-contagion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65917","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Obliterates Trump’s Abysmal Economic Crapulence: Trump Released the Contagion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The devastation that millions of Americans have suffered due to Donald Trump imposing his profoundly ignorant torrent of tariffs on nearly every country across the globe (except of course for Russia), has produced results that can and were predicted by knowledgeable economists and trade experts.<\/p>\n

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Now, after the stock market has wiped out some $6 trillion in assets, even some of Trump’s biggest backers and donors are starting to call him out for upending America’s relationships with the world, and for needlessly harming so many innocent people, including many of those who voted for him because he promised to lower the cost of living and improve the state of the nation’s economy. Which was already booming when he inherited it from President Biden. Even Fox News is beginning to wobble…<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: UH-OH: Fox News Trump-Fluffer Admits that Trump’s Tariffs Will Fuel Higher Prices and Recession<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Naturally, the knee-jerk response by the faithful devotees of the Trump cult is to stiffen their noodly spines and lie that everything is fine and is going precisely according to plan. Consequently, we have people like…<\/p>\n

Peter Navarro (Trump’s senior counselor for trade)<\/a><\/strong> celebrating that “There\u2019s going to be plenty of jobs for robots”<\/em> as Trump’s policies pan out.<\/p>\n

And there’s GOP House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson<\/a><\/strong> begging everyone to “give him space,”<\/em> to let his strategy work. But rest assured that when it fails Johnson will be calling it Biden’s strategy.<\/p>\n

And the Trump-fluffers on Fox & Friends<\/a><\/strong> are consoling their viewers to relax because “If it doesn\u2019t work, [Trump] can always go back to the way it used to be.”<\/em> Right! But after all the damage has already been done, who’s gonna reimburse those who lost their life savings? Trump? Fox News?<\/p>\n

Another example of a Trumpist pitching a blatantly dishonest perspective on Trump’s still unfolding catastrophe was the Director of his National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, who rushed off to Fox News (where else?) to praise Trump for being a master dealmaker and author of “The Art of the Deal,”<\/em> In reality, Trump is neither.<\/p>\n

While it may seem that there is nothing funny about any of this, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show<\/em> tackled this subject Monday night and found a way to be both educational and hilarious. He hit on a variety of critical components of the Trump economic fiasco, such as…<\/p>\n