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Your comments about China suggest otherwise.

"The Thought of XiJinPing....or XiJinPing Thought was NEVER written by him...because....he had to rely on a ghost writer. Xi is a dunce, as we all know." Any other dunce heads of state who used a ghost writer come to mind?

Maybe in Opposite world. Here's the graph with a liine and arrow to make it clear what happened in this one:

Orwell's 1984 version..

You mean the pipeline that would have conveyed oil subject to tariffs. As for US coal miners, the utility companies sure don't want to be burning coal anymore. Way too expensive to build new plants. The economics favor renewables. On the other hand, Trump is giving coal burning utilities an avenue to release neurotoxins like mercury into the atmosphere once again.

Thanks for the non evidence to back up your claim. As for the increase in gas and oil production, apparently you believe Biden should be some sort of magician, and all he had to do was snap his fingers to solve problems. It seems to be what Trumpists believe about Trump.

Clearly, Trump is also taking action to eliminate the US freedom-of-speech repression deficit. Give him enough time and he'll turn it into a surplus.

But why did you choose 6 to 9 months? Do you think that if Trump persists with this the outlook will turn positive in that time span?

Wasn't that the administration that right wingers accused of trying to destroy the oil and gas industries?

After the 2008 financial crash it took over 5 years for the S&P 500 to top its old high. https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data It took over 4 years for Nasdaq to do that https://www.macrotrends.net/1320/nasdaq-historical-chart The stock market isn't entirely independent from the economy. Now if you believe that in 6 to 9 months Trump's actions will look economically promising then you have a point. Otherwise, not really.

I just checked to see if Fox News has reported this yet. The answer is no. At least, it's not on their landing page. On the other hands, Newsmax gave it top billing.

That's the Trump team's explanation now.

. The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to seek the return of a migrant who officials mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison, rebuffing government claims that it need do nothing to remedy its error. There were no dissents noted in the order, which directed the government to take steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, back to the U.S. from the maximum security facility it sent him to on March 15... The administration maintained that its only error was sending him to El Salvador rather than to a third country, and that federal courts had no power to command officials to retrieve him once he was in custody by a foreign government overseas. https://archive.ph/pTOZb

US President Donald Trump may have announced a delay in some of his tariff plans, but the first signs of an economically-damaging slowdown in global trade are already emerging as companies around the world hit their own pause button on orders and he continues to escalate his trade war with China. Trump announced Wednesday that he would increase import duties on Chinese goods to 125% while also announcing a 90-day pause in plans to impose higher tariffs on dozens of other economies, hitting them with a flat 10% tariff instead. China earlier in the day had raised its own new tariffs on imports from the US to 84% https://archive.ph/VXxQl One update: Trump raised the tariff to 145%

I'd like to know who he means by "us". I've been told the same same kind of thing by right wingers on this website. What's my agenda? And he wants BLMfem to leave Thailand? Really? I hope you're wrong because that wouldn't speak well of Pouatchees intellect if he believed that BLMfem's return to their homeland would would somehow mean that that they couldn't participate on the forums.

The record came despite a 53% year-over-year decline in exports to China, due to a decline in transportation fuel demand there as well as higher imports from Malaysia and Russia that replaced barrels from the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration. Trump's trade war with China, which has reduced benchmark U.S. oil prices more than 15% this month, threatens to further reduce exports to China. U.S. oil producers made up for declining sales there by shipping more to India last year as well as a 6% uptick in shipments to Europe. https://archive.ph/CHkA0#selection-853.0-853.45

Is it very soon yet? Or is this going to be one of those Jesus-is-coming-any-day-now things?

How many years have they controlled both houses of congress and the presidency? Obama's first 2 years and Biden's first 2 years. And they got a lot done. Even though in Biden's case he had the narrowest of possible majorities in the Senate and a few Dinos to contend with.

Silly comment. The US is the second largest exporter of goods in the world. US manufacturers aren't forcing people to buy their stuff. Well, at least not yet. Give Trump some more time and who knows...

What significance do you attach to those 2 very small declines?

A legal way to apply that meets the economic needs of the country. And if they were legal, then it would be a lot easier to make sure that they were paid according to the law. Which would reduce the incentive for hiring them in the first place Of course, if the minimum wage was raised to a live-able level that would be even better. But Trump and his followers seem to have a horror of the minimum wage even though that's the most effiective way to make sure that the poor and working class get a living wage.

I don't think so. But since you managed not to provide links or even labels I can't be 100% sure. But for the sake of argument, I'll concede it's correct. This was 2 very small declines. What do you think that proves. And it was extensively reported on at the time. What's your point?

Prove it. Provide the links.

And Republicans have been making it their issue for decades. But because they're Republicans they are not going to go after the owner class in a serious way.

I'm pretty sure you're posting a graph of GDP growth (And I've noticed that it's overwhlemingly right wingers who don't seem to understand the importance of posting links.) So naturally those early post covid figures look strong. They're being compared to a low baseline. Here's a graph of actual GDP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 The decline for those 2 quarters was miniscule. Just how miniscule you can see for yourselfif you go to the website. And what you don't mention, what Trumpists never mention, is how strong the US recovery was compared to most other fully developed economies including all the major ones.