Remember that moment back in the 2016 presidential campaign, when Trump criticized how much then President Obama played golf? How he doubled down and claimed - at that time - that if he were president, he would not have time to play golf. After all, being the American president is serious business, and so he would not waste the time of the taxpayer.
Well now, having initiated a totally unprovoked and unnecessary trade war with pretty much the entire rest of the world, the economy is more than a little stagnant. There are many experts warning that a recession is looming in the not so distant future.
In short, people are hurting. People's retirement savings have been hit. Moreover, it seems like social security is no longer a safe bet, since there are serious indications that the Trump administration will be going after that next. People most likely will be holding off on retirement, feeling that it is no longer a safe bet, even if it looked like it just a few months ago.
So what does out fearless leader do?
Yet again, he is playing golf.
He did, however, take some time to try and appease his supporters and allay their worries. He was one of those messages:
“HANG TOUGH,” he wrote. “WE CAN’T LOSE!!!”
Now, doesn't hat make you feel better? Aren't you reassured now? All of those overblown worries that this guy is playing games which he was warned by almost everyone not to play, right?
Yes, the billionaire who was born into a pampered and privileged life, and who has never known struggle or financial uncertainty a single day in his life, is assuring you that your worries about your hard earned savings are overblown.
Even more outrageous, he actually proclaimed a measure of victory, much like George W. Bush did just weeks after the invasion of Iraq back in 2003. Look how well that turned out.
This is what Trump recently posted on his Truth Social platform:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1216882299782995&set=a.113043426833560
There we go. Trump likened himself to a surgeon who just completed a successful surgery. He insisted that the patient (that being the American economy, or the American people) will be better off in the long run.
Except, of course, that most of the experts doubt that this surgery was necessary to begin with. That Trump performed this action at the risk of the patient without any kind of justification for it, and against the opinions and warnings of almost everyone else.
Meanwhile, far from showing signs of recovery, the economy keeps on slumping. Even Russia, the country which Trump seems to feel most closely aligned to, today warned that the world economy is "in turmoil."
Worse still, Russian government officials left no real doubt that the finger of blame was to be pointed at Trump's tariffs:
“It’s unlikely that these U.S. tariffs will be beneficial. The global economy is responding very emotionally to these decisions,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a Friday briefing, according to multiple outlets. “We are witnessing a high level of turbulence in international markets, and of course, the world economy is currently in turmoil.”
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Trump and his economic plan, is it?
Indeed, things look and feel quite grim at the moment.
You know, it occurred to me that Trump's MAGA movement always focused on some supposed golden era, when the United States was great. My guess is that he was referring to the 1950's and 1960's, or perhaps even the 1980's, when he himself seemed to be on top of the world. The thing is, the United States back in those days was not outright antagonistic to friendly nations. In fact, it relied heavily on friends, and appreciated their support. So it seems strange that he and his movement are so keen on destroying those key friendships now, when they are trying to return to days when we strongly benefited from them. They showed no hesitation when going after our friends and all but outright declaring economic war on them.
Really, it's enough to start to make everyone feel nervous. The stock market is crashing, and the Trump administration is not pointing to it as a measure of their success, which they have regularly done in the past. Hell, FOX News even took down their stock market ticker scrawl for the first time in 28 years, knowing that it is unflattering to Trump and his MAGA movement, which FOX News has been instrumental in empowering.
Don't worry, though. Trump, a man who has a long history of lying and misleading people, and also a man who filed bankruptcy numerous times and failed even with a number of casinos and other scam business ventures, is assuring you that everything is just fine. At least he is doing that in between all of those endless rounds of golf that he once promised us he would have no time for once he was in the White House.
So I guess this is what passes for the new normal in this Trump America.
Are we great yet?
Below are the sources which I used and from which I obtained the quote from Trump used in the above:
Global markets swoon as Trump heads to the golf course published by Al Jazeera, 4 Apr 2025:
Markets tumbled in Wall Street’s worst crisis since the pandemic as investors fled after China retaliated against tariffs.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/4/4/global-markets-swoon-as-trump-heads-to-the-golf-course
"The operation is over, the patient lived': Donald Trump after shaking global economies with US tarrifs published by Times of India, April 3, 2025:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-and-world/the-operation-is-over-the-patient-lived-donald-trump-after-shaking-global-economies-with-us-tariffs/articleshow/119949495.cms
Russia: World economy ‘in turmoil’ by Filip Timotija - 04/04/25:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5232892-russian-government-world-economy-turmoil/
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