I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain.
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I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil?smid=nytcore-ios-share
OPEC price shocks, 2008 crisis, COVID… in all those cases you can certainly make a compelling case that the POTUS should have seen it coming / had some agency. But this one is entirely voluntary and entirely self-inflicted.
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OPEC price shocks, 2008 crisis, COVID… in all those cases you can certainly make a compelling case that the POTUS should have seen it coming / had some agency. But this one is entirely voluntary and entirely self-inflicted.
Trump is like a kid who blows off his finger playing with fireworks. He either knew the risks going in and didn’t care, or was such a blathering idiot that the excitement of watching things go boom was as far as his brain could process. But in either case, he alone lit the fuse.
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