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# Worst Year Ever
- URL: https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/worst-year-ever/
- Published: 2021-01-28T15:55:29.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-29T16:59:28.000Z
- Description: In 2020, year over year G.D.P. plunged 3.5%, the worst on record
- Author: Richard Hine
- Tags: Newsletter, #substack, #substack-type-newsletter, #substack-access-everyone, #Import 2023-04-10 13:40

> [](https://twitter.com/richardhine/status/1354810494318600198?ref=unprecedented.ghost.io)

As the *New York Times* reports today, the Trump economy collapsed like a [house of cards](https://unprecedented.ghost.io/the-economy-trump-built/) in 2020\. Year over year G.D.P. plunged 3.5%, “the worst on record.” We lost millions of jobs. It took trillions of taxpayer dollars in federal aid to avert a total and utter meltdown—and despite that, the US economy remains “in a significant hole.”

Throughout his Presidency, Trump’s “greatest economy ever” bullshit was, of course, one of [the biggest cons](https://unprecedented.ghost.io/the-trump-steaks-economy/) he ever pulled. And for most of his Presidency the gullible media played along. Trump promised his tax cuts for the rich (aka the #GOPTaxScam) would “skyrocket” the economy to growth of 5% or even 6%. He never got close, creating fewer jobs in his first three years than Obama created in his final three, even as the debt (which he had promised to eliminate) soared by $8 trillion in a single term.

> [](https://twitter.com/NationalDebt/status/1354563024921763840?ref=unprecedented.ghost.io)

The Trump Recession, of course, [officially began in February 2020](https://unprecedented.ghost.io/the-trump-boom-goes-bust/), before the pandemic lockdowns began. It was preceded by [a year-long US manufacturing recession in 2019 and a surge in farm bankruptcies](https://unprecedented.ghost.io/dont-believe-the-hype/), both of which were directly caused by Trump’s failed trade war with China.

As 2020 began, Trump was so desperate for an election-year trade deal with China that he pretended the coronavirus wasn’t a thing until he got his dumb “partial” deal signed. Then, thanks to his recklessness and incompetence in handling the pandemic, the deal became meaningless anyway.

After four disastrous years, one-term loser and failed insurrectionist Trump became “[the only modern president to leave office with fewer U.S. jobs than when his term began](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-trump/trump-ends-his-term-like-a-growing-number-of-americans-out-of-a-job-idUSKBN29D30I?ref=unprecedented.ghost.io).”

He made the nation poorer, sicker and weaker.

The death, devastation and despair he caused in America’s worst year ever have cemented his status as the [worst president ever](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/?ref=unprecedented.ghost.io).

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