Nearly 100,000 people have died and trump does not care. He is golfing and having airplanes fly "Keep America Great" banners over beaches. And he is tweeting lies about how #coronavirus case numbers are going down all over the country.
1/12 He is spending time accusing news talk show pundits of murder, and Democrats of mail-in voting fraud (even though he votes this way) while saying Republicans need to control the vote or they would never be voted in.
2/12

Practically speaking, the U.S. is already in a recession, with the worst yet to come.

⬇️ Manufacturing down
⬇️ Service industry down
⬇️ Existing and new home sales down
⬇️ Consumer spending down
⬆️ Unemployment at record highs

1/12

seekingalpha.com/article/434018… U.S. GDP was fairly stagnant most of 2019, and overall GDP increase in 2019 was less than 2017 and 2018. The Bureau of Economic Analysis will release 1st Quarter economic numbers Wednesday (4/29).

2/12

bea.gov/news/2020/gros…

Economists estimate trump's #TradeWar w/ China has already cost U.S. companies & consumers $19.2 billion.

Now U.S. retailers, to avoid drastic price increases in the U.S., purchase products from Tawain, South Korea, Vietnam, & Mexico (thread)
#economics

reuters.com/article/us-usa… The trump #TradeWar is making #Vietnam a winner-- as "exports rose 12.4% in the 2nd half of 2018...outpacing the five biggest economies in SE Asia"

And co's like Xuan Hoa Vietnam Joint Stock Co. (furniture) have shifted operations from China to Vietnam.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…