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Politico @politico.com

The normally bullish Trump over the weekend declined to rule out the possibility of a full-blown recession as his tariff policies threaten to spark a massive global trade war.

mar 10, 2025, 5:55 pm • 162 35

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charliebee731893.bsky.social @charliebee731893.bsky.social

Still believing he's doing it on purpose so he can declare a state of emergency...

mar 10, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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NattieC @ebonyeyes3524.bsky.social

He bankrupted every company he has owned. And where his name is, it is a marketing gimmick that he made money on. The big lie outside of his 2020 loss and insurrection is he knows business. He sucks as a business man.

mar 10, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
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Gregg Havens @dundeeyank.bsky.social

Doing a great job..NOT.

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mar 10, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Colleen McVeigh @cmmc64.bsky.social

Politico, what do you mean his business acumen. Reality does not support that statement. Try: His fabled business acumen, his purported business acumen, or feel free to amend yourselves.

mar 10, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pat V @patv23o.bsky.social

So much for criticizing the economy under Biden, in less than 2 month Trumusk has destroyed the country

mar 11, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Born Cynical 🇨🇦 @borncynical.bsky.social

“Business acumen”? Are you high?

mar 10, 2025, 5:56 pm • 26 1 • view
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🖇️curleeloc @curleeloc.bsky.social

Puff puff pass..

mar 10, 2025, 6:07 pm • 6 0 • view
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hotelalhamra.bsky.social @hotelalhamra.bsky.social

The media's false portrayal of Trump as a successful businessman has been his armor, you stupid turds.

mar 10, 2025, 9:13 pm • 4 1 • view
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Stoley @stoley.bsky.social

His goal is to destroy America whatever it takes

mar 10, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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batlbot.bsky.social @batlbot.bsky.social

Even using the phrase "normally bullish" associates him with thinking in financial terms like "bullish", which he no doubt thinks has something to do with fucking bulls or some other such childish nonsense.

mar 10, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sasha @sashakj.bsky.social

This is your response? Really? You have no business acumen. It will always be "what do I receive in return." And it always has to be considerably more. The government cannot be run in this manner. You have never been, nor will never be, the leader this country deserves.

mar 10, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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abellemare09.bsky.social @abellemare09.bsky.social

Canadians apologize for the inconvenience caused by our awful fentanyl export that triggered all this. Sorry again

mar 10, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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kelly-d-d.bsky.social @kelly-d-d.bsky.social

Trump is a lying conman carnival barker. Economic collapse his first term because of his incompetence of covid, should have been the lesson against his lying bravado saying otherwise. Everything he touches dies, shown by his many bankruptcies to the graves of millions.

mar 10, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 1 • view
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naddasaint.bsky.social @naddasaint.bsky.social

Don't forget eliminating the pandemic response team, what could go wrong.

mar 10, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Save Democracy @talkfree.bsky.social

There is a hidden agenda. I believe it is to enrich his friends and to avoid government oversight for a nefarious purpose.

mar 10, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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dianaar.bsky.social @dianaar.bsky.social

What business acumen?????👀👀👀👀

mar 10, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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JoVan666 @jayvee999.bsky.social

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mar 10, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Frank73A @frank73a.bsky.social

And so far it stinks!

mar 11, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Frank Lutze @wohllust.bsky.social

Trump hits the Americans where it hurts: money. That’s good, because how else would resistance form? He should do more to beat his voters in front of the head!

mar 11, 2025, 5:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Trump’sChildSexTraffickingScandalCat @unhipcat.bsky.social

‘it’ll be like china’s economic plan. The rest of your life will suck, but in 100 years, you’ll be thanking me.’

mar 10, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thirstyscholar @thirstyscholar.bsky.social

Business acumen? Six (6) bankruptcies.

mar 10, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hambone @hambone717.bsky.social

His “business acumen”? It’s a myth fostered by the Apprentice and the media.

mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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Marylou @maryloub.bsky.social

Recession will mean his billionaire donors can scoop up property for cheap prices and become trillionaires. A recession is exactly what they want.

mar 11, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view
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chillyone1969.bsky.social @chillyone1969.bsky.social

He is the greatest national security threat at this time and should be dealt with accordingly.

mar 11, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
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morrisgirl.bsky.social @morrisgirl.bsky.social

Business acumen? Are y’all sure you know what the term means? He thinks acumen is a car. Ask him.

mar 10, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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franzeseink.bsky.social @franzeseink.bsky.social

"Business acumen has been his armor"? Are you kidding me? 6+ bankruptcy, cheating children's and veterans charities? He has no "business acumen, he is a con man straight up.

mar 10, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jay Monahan @mojowkn.bsky.social

Why does the press keep perpetuating the idea of Trump having "business acumen," in light of the litany of business failures, bankruptcies and convictions for fraud. The emperor has no clothes.

mar 10, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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pamelaspring.bsky.social @pamelaspring.bsky.social

Oh come on! He’s a bully not a business man! Has everyone forgotten his failures in the 80s? He’s just ripped people off by not paying them and bullied banks into bailing out his failures! I should tell everyone I’m Americas next top model. If I say it enough these fools who love him will believe it

mar 11, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
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sifunick.bsky.social @sifunick.bsky.social

This is in the hands of the Republican Congress. They can stop the madness. Keep the pressure on them, at every level of government.

mar 10, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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truenorthgirl.bsky.social @truenorthgirl.bsky.social

Business acumen? You can't be serious. His affinity is for bankruptcy.

mar 11, 2025, 12:25 am • 2 0 • view
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porphyryLives @porphyrylives.bsky.social

"Business acumen" is revisionist history. Trump is a well documented con-man. An adjudicated felon on charges related to fiducial responsibility. It is not his "business acumen" that is his armor, is the press continually acting like he has any. Stop giving gravitas to incompetence!

mar 10, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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tisnart.bsky.social @tisnart.bsky.social

He has no “business acumen” !

mar 10, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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garyatcal.bsky.social @garyatcal.bsky.social

Deranged, out of control old man. Wake up merica.

mar 10, 2025, 5:58 pm • 6 1 • view
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Ginger Rebel @safety-pin-project.bsky.social

I made this!

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mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 8 1 • view
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garyatcal.bsky.social @garyatcal.bsky.social

That's awesome.

mar 10, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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jaharris.bsky.social @jaharris.bsky.social

“Business acumen?” The fraudster and serial bankruptcy artist has no business acumen.

mar 10, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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mjsand304.bsky.social @mjsand304.bsky.social

We need to start pointing out that a recession is GOOD for Trump and musk! They can buy up even more things at rock bottom prices and gleefully watch people suffer. They're not ignorant to what they're doing to the economy. They want to crash it!!!

mar 11, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Flanders @coffeeohyes.bsky.social

6 bankruptcy’s is not business accum

mar 10, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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maudlin-sky.bsky.social @maudlin-sky.bsky.social

And… the stock market crashed on Monday.

mar 11, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
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EricM @dblcup.bsky.social

Armor only in a fake reality. He has no Business Acumen. Never has.

mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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alitica.bsky.social @alitica.bsky.social

Is your fault Orange nasty thing.

mar 11, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
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fh567.bsky.social @fh567.bsky.social

Trump's business acumen? The Hindenburg's safe landing?

mar 10, 2025, 6:01 pm • 5 2 • view
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travelingcanuck.bsky.social @travelingcanuck.bsky.social

The business acumen of at least six bankruptcies and how many lawsuits?

mar 10, 2025, 6:00 pm • 12 1 • view
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"Patti" PFC @pattifmclark.bsky.social

With all the current lawsuits it's too many to count!

mar 10, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social

the dude bankrupted a fucking casino.

mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 9 2 • view
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🖇️curleeloc @curleeloc.bsky.social

Casinos. More than 1.

mar 10, 2025, 6:08 pm • 4 1 • view
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social

if you fail once, fail, fail, fail again.

mar 10, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ivshyn🇺🇦 @ivshyn.bsky.social

New reality

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mar 10, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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ullerypl.bsky.social @ullerypl.bsky.social

He wants a recession and to destroy the middle class....back to the days of wealthy feudal lords and desperate peasants serving them

mar 10, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Progressive Poet @caligreg.bsky.social

Trump Slump Has Arrived He’s now sparked a recession. Next up: A massive depression. His billionaires love the squalor. Buy all for pennies on the dollar!

mar 10, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Elon Putz @boycott-tesla.bsky.social

Hassett and Lutnick told Americans to get ready for cheap gas once the recession hits, they also said there will be big international demand for expensive American exports once all manufacturing moves to the US, and yes, they both seemed very happy.

mar 10, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 1 • view
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Aleister Tweed @scoobieboobie.bsky.social

Yep

mar 10, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ginger Rebel @safety-pin-project.bsky.social

He's not a business genius at all. He's an idiot born into money and then squandered it multiple times and repeatedly screwed people and businesses over. He's always been a fraud decent at pretending he's good at business.

mar 10, 2025, 6:00 pm • 15 0 • view
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Kitten250 @kitten250.bsky.social

He wouldn't have a thing if he wasn't born into money. He'd be a cheap ass con man rolling in and out of jail with a ton of enemies and not one friend.

mar 10, 2025, 6:12 pm • 9 0 • view
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Ginger Rebel @safety-pin-project.bsky.social

Yep, 100%.

mar 10, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chris Gallen @villain57.bsky.social

He apparently “doesn’t like making predictions” having campaigned making false predictions.

mar 10, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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Hannah Kim (she/her) @ohheyhan.bsky.social

What business acumen? You mean the propaganda that Republican voters believed? I truly have no sympathy left for those who got duped into voting for him again. I’m just pissed the rest of us will also have to suffer as a result.

mar 10, 2025, 6:00 pm • 19 1 • view
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charlottepringlet.bsky.social @charlottepringlet.bsky.social

Yeah! Just a few hours after his commerce secretary promised a recession isn’t going to happen. I think he gets his rocks off disagreeing with his own people.

mar 11, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian @alaskanboy.bsky.social

What business acumen, he's a grifter, that's all he's got.

mar 11, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
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allen1416.bsky.social @allen1416.bsky.social

His 6 bankruptcies don’t give you pause about his business acumen? The orange fat boy is a disaster

mar 11, 2025, 9:53 am • 0 0 • view
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joeynickles.bsky.social @joeynickles.bsky.social

Business acumen. Essentially the stylishly lit boardroom set in the “apprentice” on NBC.

mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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XgenMattie @matchew65.bsky.social

How can that be his armor? Didn't he file for bankruptcy 6 times? And a casino at that 🤔

mar 10, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ducking Wilder @duckingwilder.bsky.social

Stop sucking Fat Hitler’s dick or face the consequences.

mar 10, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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jacksonmcbride.bsky.social @jacksonmcbride.bsky.social

Oh please if I inherited millions of dollars and got bailed out of potential bankruptcy or actual bankruptcies, would Politico call me a stable genius? Trump was just allowed to fail up repeatedly throughout his life.

mar 10, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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hbeeinc @hbeeinc.bsky.social

You can't say someone with as many bankruptcies as the orange shittgibbon possesses "business acumen."

mar 11, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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REJECT CRUELTY (Now 83% Good Human) @allthe2d.bsky.social

Hey Politico -- Edit your headline with a better term than "business acumen." That's 100% inaccurate if you know anything at all about his history in business, which I'm sure you do. We ALL know he has only survived as long as he has with bankruptcies and lies. That's not acumen; it's the opposite.

mar 10, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Christian Kurt @kurtchristian.bsky.social

TARIFFS ON FOX NEWS WATCHERS BY CANADA. Canadians need a war on Fox News! Murdoch and Ailes started this mess 20+ years ago by intentionally lying and dividing. Impose a 50% tariff on energy bills unless you can provide proof you do not watch Fox News. Want to hurt Trump? hurt Fox!

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afram1949.bsky.social @afram1949.bsky.social

and it will be called the "Trump Recession."

mar 10, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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korody.bsky.social @korody.bsky.social

What f.ing biz acumen? The idiot bankrupted a casino ffs

mar 10, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mm.jee 🇨🇦 @mmjee.bsky.social

MAGAs wanted economy, law and order... Now they have chaos, hate and recession. At which point will they admit that they were wrong?

mar 10, 2025, 7:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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assessor1.bsky.social @assessor1.bsky.social

Business acumen?! Where, how, why? Art of the deal? More like Art of the Dull. Duh.

mar 10, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social

The title of this article is insane.

mar 10, 2025, 5:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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kingkilburn.bsky.social @kingkilburn.bsky.social

You mean the logical results of the decisions he's made have already come to fruition? Shocking.

mar 10, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Tactless Gnome @hoppy75.bsky.social

His 'business acumen' is a full-blown lie. It never existed. Trump has bankrupted 3 casinos and 3 hotels, and also failed numerous business ventures: "Trump" Airlines, Beverages, Game, Magazines (2), Mortgage, Steaks, Trumpnet (telecom), Tower Tampa, University, Vodka, Fragrances, and Mattresses.

mar 10, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Emma @emmarose40150.bsky.social

😂 😂 Business acumen..Are you serious, Politico?

mar 10, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Half Hung Archie MacPhunn @halfhungarchie.bsky.social

I see, Trump's not hitching a ride on Epstein's Pedo Express.

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Simone @simonedebougievoir.bsky.social

Ok, but does he have public administration acumen? Because that's what running a government is.

mar 10, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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wouterke.bsky.social @wouterke.bsky.social

Ah, so the whole delusional point of his tariff-war (now you see it, next day you dont) was to decrease inflation. Now even he understands that it is not how it works, he admits he is wrong, and still does it anyway. There are not even words for this anymore...

mar 10, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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roddy chops @rod-learmonth.bsky.social

His "business acumen has long been his armor"?? Bankrupt six times, bailed out by Russian oligarchs, and he's going to do it to the country now.

mar 10, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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R.I.P GDPR @rip-gdpr.bsky.social

Is this another bankruptcy to add to his achievements?

mar 10, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pyrite Hunter @pyrite-hunter.bsky.social

Why is that surprising? He’s bankrupted every business he’s ran, why should our country be any different?

mar 11, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
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TrixxyIL @trixxyil.bsky.social

A weak economy here is good for Putin and Xi.

mar 10, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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kathsbe.bsky.social @kathsbe.bsky.social

He is a crook and a nit wit. His only thought process is to bully.

mar 11, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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makingbetterworld.bsky.social @makingbetterworld.bsky.social

It’s not business acumen. His main skill is mob bossing.

mar 10, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

MAGA Politico: Normally Bullish Trump??? Trump's Business Acumen??? 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/edhi...

mar 10, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

THE MAGAts AT POLITICO ARE WATCHING THEIR 'DEAR LEADER' CRASH THE ECNOMY bsky.app/profile/edhi...

mar 10, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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TeddyBear @auntifafa.bsky.social

TRUMP DEPRESSION. single-handedly he’s bringing the world‘s greatest economy down to the world‘s worst

mar 10, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view