Wingate

The Supreme Court's tariff decision seems a good time to look at Trump's first year back in office and assess what he has done. Earlier in the month, in her whackadoodle House Hearing, his unhinged AG called Trump "The Greatest President Ever". Of course such a superlative is merely a matter of opinion, and she is undoubtedly as captured as a resident of Georgetown, Guyana in 1978, but it does encourage people to take a look and see what Trump actually accomplished. I mean, he must have done something to gain such an accolade. To be generous, Trump might look at his Supreme Court tariff loss as a convoluted kind of win, since the loss wasn't as bad as his loss in Minnesota. At least the Supreme Court is composed largely of adults. In Minnesota, it was mostly teenage school kids who defeated him and got him to "taco". And since every cloud has a silver lining, as the SC decision came on a Friday, the weekend talk shows will likely speak more of his illegal tariff actions than Jeffrey Epstein. The Iranians might get a reprieve, too, as at least for the weekend, he doesn't need another diversion and distraction from Epstein. Greenland served its purpose and is now in the past. Blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean served it's purpose, and has stopped. Pretending he would run Venezuela served its purpose, too. The tariff loss can hide Epstein's ghost for a few days. Simple gifts. As for his other "accomplishments", let's see.... Total non-farm job growth in 2025 was 181,000. In Biden's last year of 2024, it was 2,230,000. I don't think Trump's performance there falls into any kind of superlative like "Greatest". Even mediocre would be generous. His tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US, but construction of new plant and factories fell in 2025. Maybe business people either knew the tariff thing was illegal, or else they crunched the numbers and saw it simply made no economic sense to build in the US what can be bought cheaper, albeit of equal or superior quality, from abroad. The economic data also released Friday, which might get lost in the tariff decision, did not exactly scream "Greatest". Inflation---using the Fed's preferred measure of PCE---came in at 3% in December, vs 2.7% in Dec 2024 of Biden. GDP Growth in the 4th Quarter came in at 1.4%, vs 2.8% in the last Quarter of 2024 under Biden. No superlative there, either. While the equity market set a new high, that's hardly a big deal, as the last time a President failed to preside over a new high was, I think, 1976-1980 under Carter. Trump got to ride Biden's coattails, as the market was on an upward slope in 2024. Maybe Trump made some friends in China during his first year, as his Rube Goldberg-esque deal with the UAE ($500,000,000 into his family business, which some might call a bribe) got restrictions on the export sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs removed, and the UAE then forwarded these chips to China. Overall, Trump's family net worth grew by an estimated $4 billion in 2025, too, as grifting and self-dealing became the norm. No President comes close to that kind of corruption, so maybe Greatest Grifter is a superlative well-earned. To his credit, Trump did get all manner of Participation Trophies, such as his FIFA Peace Prize and that Champion of Coal prize. He also got a second hand Nobel Peace Prize, though the Nobel Committee reminded him that it's Fake Nobel. On Thursday, Trump spoke in Georgia and declared he was going to test the law that would allow him to award himself the Congressional Medal of Honor, usually reserved for military personnel displaying extraordinary valor in battle. Trump said he deserves one because he visited Iraq for 3 1/2 hours in 2018. If that deserves the Medal of Honor, then at least 1.5 million US troops and another few hundred thousand contractors and US Diplomats---who spent months to years in Iraq from 2003 to 2021---deserve the same medal. That would seem to cheapen the honor. Trump also set a record for frivolous spending, as his golf outings in his first year back cost the US Taxpayer $71,000,000 per the OMB. Trump holds the previous term record, having run up $151,500,000 in Trump 1.0, and he is on pace to shatter that record, provided his cankles and declining health allow it. I guess some fake credit also goes to him for his Board of Peace, which as yet has no function, no plans, no purpose, and no decent nation as a member, as it is filled largely by monarchies and authoritarian regimes. The odds of that useless entity lasting beyond Trump's death are worse than the odds of winning the Powerball Lottery, but he can bask (or sleep) in the glory until death do they part. Elsewhere, he claims to have stopped wars that either did not exist or else haven't actually ended. Even the most groveling sycophantic MAGA likely cannot name the 8 wars Trump claimed to have stopped. I think the people of Armenia and Cambodia will be forever grateful for his efforts for ending their horrific war...LOL. And let's not forget how Trump claimed to have stopped the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, all while filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for his casinos. THAT, my friends, is multi-tasking at another level. Trump also taught us that that the old saw, "Go big or go home" is alive and well. He blew up small boats incapable of carrying much more than a dime bag of drugs, but pardoned a guy who ran 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US. He went after Letitia James for some supposed $700 worth of mortgage fraud (dismissed), but pardoned a billionaire who laundered money for the terrorist group Hamas, as well as a donor who scammed "investors" out of tens of millions of dollars. Finally, he did do something along the border, and that likely freed up thousands of strawberry and lettuce picking jobs for his MAGA disciples, befitting their talent and skill level. He might claim he prevented some crimes, too, by sending home bad folks, but that has to be weighed against the horrific crimes committed by the 6 January 2021 terrorists he pardoned. A good many of their crimes were sexual abuse and exploitation of children, but as we have seen with the slow-rolled release of the Epstein files, that is something Trump views as less severe than reminding military personnel of their legal duty to refuse to obey unlawful orders. Perhaps a final tribute to his first year is that, while he failed abysmally to unite the nation, he does seem to have united the civilized world....albeit against him. Many people are saying that couldn't be done. Some people are saying nobody could have destroyed the civilized world's view of the US any more or any faster.

The USG just paid $128,550,500 for a 235-acre property in a place called Social Circle, Georgia, to be used as an ICE detention facility. The seller was a company called PNK SI, LLC, whose ownership is opaque, but some reports say it is owned by Russian oligarchs. PNK I, LLC purchased the property in 2023 for $29,392,500. In 2024, the Walton County (Georgia) Tax Assessor’s Office valued the property at $3,294,000. In, 2025, PNK SI, LLC then constructed a warehouse on the property, and the property value was reassessed at $29,786,800. “Somehow” the Administration of the self-proclaimed World’s Greatest Dealmaker decided it was wise to pay $100,000,000 over the assessed value of a warehouse in a rural town of about 5000 people. The existing structure is about 1 million square feet and has loading docks for trucks, as it was originally intended to be a distribution facility. Obviously, lots more money will be required to turn the warehouse into a detention facility in addition to a massive increase in the town’s infrastructure. Maybe the crazy over value price was because a competitive bidder wanted to open a Blockbuster Video shop there? LOL. Graft or stupidity. Those are the only two choice to pay a 300% premium. ICE has plans to buy 24 similar facilities in the US, and has budgeted $38,300,000,000 to purchase and upgrade these detention facilities. Would DOGE Have approved this gift to the previous owners, all at the US Taxpayer’s expense? Many different media sources carried this story. Here's one: Feds Paid Over $128.5 Million for New ICE Facility in Social Circle - Social Circle Today And here's what the Taxpayer got for $128 million:

So the justification---that would make a candidate who ran on a platform of "We will no longer be the world's policeman" toss it out---is what? Killing non-combatants? How many non-combatants were killed in Gaza ? Is it okay is done more slowly? How about the regular and systematic abuse of females in Saudi Arabia, as well as a punishment of public beheading for the practice of Christianity? No problem, if Trump can gain approval for an RE project. Long ago there was The War of Jenkin's Ear. This will be the War of the Epstein Files. Distraction. Hey, look over here ! We're blowing up boats in the Caribbean and "running" Venezuela. Well, not any more. That was yesterday's distraction. Like Greenland. So now the distraction will be Iran. Oh, and there was a perfectly good nuclear deal when Trump took over in 2017. 100% took Iran out of the nuke game. But the guy who lives rent free in Trump's head had arranged that deal. Does anyone think the Trump Administration has a plan for after a strike? What if infrastructure in knocked out and innocent people suffer? Does anybody think Trump really cares? Anybody think Trump really cares about Moslem Iranians? Trump cares less about them as he does sexually abused girls. Trump certainly doesn't give a thought for dead Gazans, so only fools think he cares about dead Iranian Moslems. I wonder if anyone has told Trump that Iran is in the Top Five of nations with cyberhacking ability? During Trump 1.0, the Iranians hacked a US drone, landed it, and sent it to China for reverse engineering.

He's channeling Trump. ဂုဏ်ယူပါတယ်

To me, she's about as appealing as roadkill. An empty pantsuit. I find it surprising supposed heterosexual men find her attractive. She looks cold and totally lacking in character. Got some ladyboy vibe working, too. She looks kind of manly to me, and since my Y chromosome drives me solely toward XXs, she does nothing for me. I'd join a Benedictine monastery, if she was the epitome of female-ness. At the same time, I understand why Hillary beat her to the bottom, although Hillary is clearly infinitely more intelligent. Having had the pleasure/displeasure of meeting both Clintons, I found Hillary instantly unlikeable and Bill the kind of buddy you'd go out together for a few cold ones. He's also astonishingly intelligent, unlike our current willfully ignorant dunce.

It's also a social issue, and one that even spooks "lefties" like me. The vast and increasing gap between the average person and the elite is what drives today's youth into thinking Socialism is some solution to their difficult plight. Contrary to the epithets tossed haphazardly in this Forum---especially by one member who continuously uses terms he really doesn't understand, like "commie" and "marxist"---most of us "lefties" are dyed-in-the-wool Capitalists. We made our wealth in that system, though most of us believe that comes with a responsibility to find places and ways to give back. We know the system others built gave us our opportunity, so we didn't do it all ourselves. Gratitude means paying forward. That ethic seems to be missing in some of the more visible members of the elite. Rather than give back to what enabled them to build what they have built, they simply flaunt their wealth and live ostentatiously. They build a 400' megayacht, maybe two. One mansion is never enough. One jet is never enough. For some, even 12-figure $ net worth is not enough. Also, the media doesn't necessarily court them; they court the media, sometimes even buying it so that they get the broadcasting rights to their own fame. That kind of self-aggrandizement and conspicuous consumption doesn't sit well with the new generation who cannot even afford to buy a home. Plus, the elite "diversify" by scooping up all manner of assets, which drives things like a house even farther away from the incoming generation. When the young also see they are paying a higher tax rate schlepping Grande Lattes at Starbucks than most billionaires (who, as part of the Donor Class can get politicians, whose primary goal is re-election, to pass new deductions or huge tax cuts), resentment is inevitable. It's human nature. Here's some numbers that are an indication of the increasing gap between the elite and the masses.....the average income in 1982 was a little over $14,000. Today it's $51,000, a rise of 264%. To make the Forbes 400 in 1982, one needed $75 million. Today it's $3.8 billion, a rise of almost 5000%. The national budget is also falling deeper into disrepair because of the tax cuts the elite demand from self-serving politicians. Since spending in never going to drop (DOGE saved virtually nothing, not even a rounding error, as the deficit continues to soar), repayment falls into the hands of the incoming generation. In fact it eventually will just all blow up. Debt service now exceeds even the bloated defense budget, and with war on the horizon (deflect from Epstein, as Iran is hardly an imminent threat), that will only get worse. $2 trillion per year is now the norm in terms of deficit---and that with still-historically low interest rates. Each upward shift in the Yield Curve of another nominal 1% will add $360 billion in new debt, eventually becoming exponential. If the US is not going to begin electing socialists on a national basis, a few things have to happen. One is a fairer tax scheme. The extra couple of hundred million a multi-billionaire makes doesn't really affect lifestyle or psychic reward, save for ego. Spending at the national level also has to decline, especially the wildly bloated defense budget. The US currently spends more on defense than the next 10 nations combined. It spends 3x as much as China, but is the US military really 3 times better? A third thing that would help, but is unlikely, is that the uber elite ought to try to become a little less visible and stop being show offs. Yes, envy is wrong, but it is inevitable and can have bad outcomes, like a trend toward Socialism among the have nots. Term limits in Congress will also help, because politicians will not have to kowtow to the elite for campaign funding. Oh, and get rid of Citizens United. a decision that only exacerbated the power of the uber elite to the detriment of the masses.

The equal time rule was for news, not entertainment. I suppose that is how Fox avoids getting dinged, as they are quite clearly comedy entertainment, rather than news. Anyway, did not Reagan abolish that equal time standard? Perhaps I'm mistaken. What I do know is that it absolutely does not apply to Late Night Talk Shows. Only the snowflakes of MAGA think that should be the case...unless it worked in their favor.

Labor participation is a key indicator. It gets glossed over far too often. The workforce data in the US, in general, looks peculiar....unless the US is aging even faster than Japan. The data suggests the real UE is over 8%. Interesting data from the usdebtclock.org website:

You are just a never ending source of slapstick humor, Sparky! "Worship" is a strong word. Perhaps if I only had an IQ of 137 (online), I might get your point. I do sometimes get a laugh out of Colbert's monologues, but that hardly qualifies as worship. I mean, even if he schlepped golden sneakers and threads from his suit and Chinese watches and silly NFTs, I would not be a customer. Who, or what, is a "villian". I guess it's a MAGAnista, right? Actually, it sounds like a word that "polyglot" Melania would use, rolling off her forked tongue and thin cruel lips. One, two, three, four...how's that for counting? I can do it backwards, too, and in 8 languages. Yea, that's just a parlor trick, but impressive, no? Do I get a 30 baht street food plate of Pad Thai? As for Covid, I understand from MAGA that it ONLY affected Trump and his glorious 'best economy ever*' (sic), but inflation was purely Biden's fault. Now perhaps Stanford Biz School taught me poorly, but they led me to believe that printing $8,400,000,000,000 in new debt (a 41% increase over the previous 44 Presidents combined), as happened under Trump 1.0, would likely lead to a bout of inflation, as it is the equivalent of $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. They also taught me that inflation is not a light switch, something that is instantaneous, but rather builds over time until it is undeniable. *data shows economic performance under Trump---BEFORE Covid---was in the bottom 33% of all quarters since the end of WWII. Even in Trumpistan that hardly deserves the superlative "best". As for 14, I wish. Love to do this all again, though it's a bit more challenging today.

Though not for me to say, yours would seem to fit the definition of "low value added post". That "moron" has had an 11 year run on his show, after his stint on Comedy Central, and as far as I know he isn't the kind of guy searching for 500 baht per night flop houses and 30 baht street food. For a "moron", who may not even have an 'online IQ of 137' (LOL!), he's sure run rings around you professionally and financially. Of course that may be a very short run. Makes you think, no?

atpeace wrote: Inflation is tame using the measurements they have use for the last century. The issue is that asset inflation is at unworldly levels. Certainly that is a major part of it. Consider this re house affordability in the US: Median income in 2000: $31,656 Median House Price in 2000: $162.050 Median income in 2026: $51,697 Median House Price in 2026: $413.742 In a post I wrote a few days ago, I noted the total market cap of US equity markets vs GDP---now 220%---and how that has been on a major upward trend since the end of The Great Recession of 2008-9, where it bottomed at 60%. Before that, only once had market cap risen above US GDP, which was during the dot.com bubble, and back then it barely---and temporarily---breached 100%. Since 2009, however, it has been the proverbial rocketship to the moon. One not-so-hidden danger of this asset bubble is that "newcomers", which is to say young people, are not only be going to be priced out of all asset markets, but they will have almost no chance of ever being able to play. THAT may well turn them toward thinking Socialism is a good idea, which we all know is not a good idea (Yes, even us "lefties" know that). I can admit the opportunities I had to become wealthy (hedge fund manager) do not really exist anymore, at least at the entry level. 90% of my MBA class are now millionaires (recent reunion data), and a few are billionaires. Save for the few grads today who might---might---get into AI, that is history that will not repeat. Also exacerbating this is the coverage of the massive wealth of those at the very top. Even back in the early 1980s when the first Forbes 400 was released, it took maybe $75 million in wealth to make the list. Forty-five years later it takes $3.8 billion in net worth to make the list. US GDP has grown by ~10 times since 1982, but to make the Forbes 400 has jumped 50 times. People who'll never even be able to afford a house see people like Elon Musk gaming for a $trillion net worth. Such people are lucky if they can find a job that pays $30K on entry, with maybe an upside of $60K. AI is going to make even that modest jump much harder, as human labor will soon be in great surplus.

Tax policy has two purposes: one is obviously to fund the government, while the second is to try to direct capital into areas useful to society as a whole. Usually the latter is abused by special interests and lobbyists, such as tax breaks for race horse breeding. Mostly, however, encouraging capital to move into corporate investment, as well as favorable tax treatment of capital gains, leads to job creation and product/service innovation. Taxing unrealized gains on stocks and bonds is counterproductive to the second goal of tax policy. Bad idea, for a host of reasons. Taxing unrealized gains on crypto might seem unfair, but it does no harm whatsoever to society as a whole. The primary use of crypto---despite claims to the contrary---is crime. Money laundering, ransom, terrorist financing, even pedo criminality all use crypto. Precious little actual commerce is driven by crypto, and certainly nothing not done easily via cash. Criminals benefited from the speculative frenzy in crypto, but wider society has gotten no benefit at all, and since criminals have benefited, crypto is a net negative to society.

Since the star of this post is Stephen Colbert, I'm going to add a bit of his humor. As has been reported in the press, DHS Chief Christi Noem and DHS employee Corey Lewandowski travel together on a decked out Boeing 737 Max "on official DHS business". The aircraft has a bedroom in the back, where it has been reported the two often go together. (Both are married with children separately). Noem is famous for shooting her pet while serving as Governor of North Dakota, for those unaware. She wrote in her book that the 14 month old pet was "untrainable". In his monologue, Colbert said, "If that romantic part is true...Corey...a word of warning: Avoid doggy style." I will add: Lewandowski demanded he not only be given an official firearm, but that he be allowed to carry it when working. I think I now know why. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say....or maybe forearmed is foreplay?

Most men never see themselves as bad. They often blame women. Lots of that on this Forum. Misogyny oozes from so many here. Guys, just take a moment and try to be honest. Was every romantic failure the woman's fault, or maybe, just maybe, YOU are the problem? There's a reason so many now are Incels. Over 30% of American men reach the age of 30 as virgins. A growing percentage of men, MAGAs in particular, have had no sex in the last year. Most all blame women for the men's failure. Two things I know: 1) There are at least as many effed up men as women, and maybe more men than women 2) There's never been a better time to be a Chad.

Late Night host Stephen Colbert was to include an interview with Texas House Rep James Talarico, who is now a candidate for the US Senate, but he was told not only to not air the interview, but not to mention that it was pulled. He ignored both demands from right-leaning Trumpist CBS and its new director of news, Bari Weiss. Colbert noted on his show that the interview had been pulled, and also had it posted on YouTube, where it has already gotten 5 million views. That is 50% more than Fox News weekday Prime Time ratings number. Note this is not the first time Trump or his White House minions have tried to cancel James Talarico, as an interview on the daytime show The View was also quashed. In the YouTube video, Talarico says it is increasingly likely Dems will flip Texas, a State Trump won by 14 points in 2024. He also noted that his grass roots campaign has broken funding records, without taking a single cent from corporate PACS. Talarico is a centrist Democrat. Talarico also echoed author and comedian John Fugelsang by saying Christian Nationalists are not Christians. Talarico is a man of faith, and noted the Gospel of Matthew, which is in stark contrast to what Christian Nationalists spout. As Fugelsang says, Jesus is their hero, but they hate his actual teachings of humility, caring for the poor, welcoming the stranger, etc. Christian Nationalists focus on issues that Jesus never once noted: abortion and gay marriage. Jesus is merely a front for their hate and bigotry. One funny part of the interview was about a Bill in the Texas House where Republicans wanted to ban “Furies”. Furies are supposedly children who think they are cats, and Republicans invented a lie that Biden signed some Bill or Executive Order requiring all States to put litter boxes in all public schools. Of course, furies do not exist, and Biden signed no such Bill. It’s just a Republican lie. Like many fake social issues, this was yet another diversion to capture the weak minded MAGA world, all so Trump et al could continue their wanton corruption and destruction of the US Constitution. Until the Talarico interview was quashed, he was a Texas issue only. He was almost unknown nationally. In typical Trumpian style, the Trumpers scored an own goal, as now Talarico has bucket loads of attention focused not only on him, but on the fascist way in which MAGA tried to quash him. MAGA IS “Cancel Culture”, or at least tries to be. The Colbert-Talerico interview can be seen here:

Typical tourist behavior. Pardon me. Well, if he's MAGA he'll get a pardon.....like the 6 January terrorists, the guy who ran 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US, the guy who laundered money for Hamas. What we've learned under Trump is that the RIGHT kind of crime pays.

In December 1989, unemployment in Japan was about 1% and inflation was non-existent. JGBs yielded little. The Nikkei topped at 38,915.87 on 28 Dec. It eventually fell to 7000. It didn't set a new high until 2025....36 years....and that is after replacing the companies that went belly up. There's much more to markets than 3% inflation and 4.3% UE...even if we can believe those numbers. Debt is critical. Exposure is critical. When everyone who wants to buy has bought, and many of those bought on margin, things are vulnerable.

I posted this because I found all of these things curious. I've always been a data wonk, so seeing these charts grabbed my attention. I have no idea why the NY Fed suddenly opened the spigots wide. I do know that in a poorly covered change of policy, on 10 Dec 2025 they removed the limit on use of the Repo window. That suggests they knew liquidity was tight, I guess. The other two charts spook me: highest value to GDP and highest margin debt ever. All of the boundless optimism smells a bit like Japan 1989 and US 1929, but I cannot figure how the AI boom affects everything. Maybe it's all coming up roses? I do know that AI is a daisy chain where there has to be an eventual end user, and since that is usually the consumer, I don't know how AI shakes out when 25%+ of the workforce---which is the consumer---is obviated by AI. It's nice chipmakers will sell, hyperscalers will build, energy will be used in volume, companies will become more efficient....but then what? If nobody has any money, productive efficiency will be meaningless. I just see society more and more bifurcated, with those closest to the beginning of the daisy chain becoming trillionaires, and the masses falling from even their current modest position. If there ever was a time when the phrase "this time is different" is true, it might be now.

He was a truck driver before he came to Thailand to marry a "cashier".

It's called community. People looking after each other. People who care more about their friends and neighbors than some power-hungry, deranged and demented dictator wannabe. The people of Minnesota are perfect examples. They saw a threat to freedom and liberty and to the safety and well being of those in their community, so they stood up. They found ways to unite and address the fascist threat. They found a way to make Trump taco. Many learned from them. Real Americans know what true American ideals are, and they are standing up to defend them. It is community. It is altruism. It is that noble ideal of "planting a tree under which one will never know its shade." More hurt for the fascists is coming. Good people learn from those who have succeeded, and they will do the same. Use social media to organize. Make sure everyone knows their Constitutional Rights. Use mobile phones to show the truth, so that when the fascists try to lie, there is proof of what reality is. Alex Pretti, contrary to the MAGA liars, was no terrorist. He was an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, and who was murdered in cold blood, while doing what he did best: care for people. MAGA has lost control of the narrative. MAGA lies are called out for what they are. Trump is called out for his corruption and self-dealing and childish vindictiveness and dictatorial demands. The next phase will be going after the enablers, such as tech titans who have cow towed to Trump. People will cancel subscriptions. All those who toss out their ChatGPT save $240 per year (they got by just fine without it a year ago), and when the market gives that a 40 times multiple, that hits capitalization at ~$10,000 per subscriber. They'll take other actions, like buying Samsung rather than Apple, or SAP instead of Oracle. The tech cowards, oddly and irrationally, are building bunkers. Cute. How stupid is that? When their pilot employee lands them at their retreat in New Zealand, he'll just shoot the boss and move into the bunker. If not the pilot, then the body guard will shoot Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos or whomever.

Party Balloons. Close a major airport for 10 days because of party balloons. I wonder if Pete is putting some balloon logos on his car, like fighter pilots put downed enemy aircraft? Of course you can fool MAGAs all of the time. No doubt when those balloons popped, all the armchair warriors began chanting "USA USA USA". The intel this Administration is "producing" is pretty bad. That's why they are now being sued by families of dead Trinidad fisherman whose boat was blown up by the psychopath Hegseth. Sorry Pete. Sometimes fishing boats are....fishing boats. And that makes Pete a murderer.

MAGAs are so dumb. How dumb are they? They don't think Puerto Rico is part of America, but the Confederate Flag is.

Perhaps you missed it, but the NFL tends to go with folks popular in any given year, like major Grammy winners. The NFL also has a target market they want to attract, which is both young and international, which is to say not you. For solace, here's another whining white guy who sang on Superbowl Sunday, albeit on the poorly watched TPUSA disaster: "But it ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays. I just wanna catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer I just wanna cut my grass, feed my dogs, wear my boots"

During Trump's first term, US GDP grew around 7.2%. During Obama's second term, US GDP grew by 7.5%. Obama wins. But wait...there's more! Trump ran up $8,400,000,000,000 in new National Debt, dwarfing his nominal GDP growth of $2.6 trillion. The growth was not driven by the private sector, but by public sector debt.

He took an online test, which means a marketing gimmick to draw in people with Dunning-Kreuger and woeful insecurity. Whatever one gets online, best to subtract at least 50 points. For a genuine IQ test, work for an employer who administers one under controlled conditions, or take the MENSA test under controlled conditions.