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(14,964 posts) Sat Jun 20, 2026, 02:02 PM 4 hrs ago

U S Debt Under Trump [View all]

The National Debt is $39.3 trillion. It's increased $3.1 trillion since Trump took office in January 2025 and it increased $7.8 trillion during his first term. He's responsible for $10.9 trillion or 27% of our current outstanding debt.

The cost of the Iran War and its reparations, his ballroom, ICE warehouses, and the Reflection Pond, Trump continues to spend our money like a drunken sailor all while personally profiting off his office. Republicans can no longer claim to be the fiscal conservative party.

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U S Debt Under Trump [View all] surfered 4 hrs ago OP

This information should be repeated in the news everyday and every time the say they need more money, Deuxcents 4 hrs ago #1

;-{) PALACE WITH BALLROOM Goonch 3 hrs ago #2

Don't give him any ideas. But in his case it would still just be all plaster and gold appliques. n/t Beartracks 2 hrs ago #7

notice how it is only an issue when Dems are in power Skittles 3 hrs ago #3

Yup Dave Id 1 hr ago #10

what really bothers me Skittles 1 hr ago #14

They never were the fiscally conservative party, just as they were never the party of "small government", just as they Fil1957 2 hrs ago #4

Propaganda is a powerful weapon mountain grammy 2 hrs ago #8

Muskrat could not be a trillionaire without the debt increase. Blue Full Moon 2 hrs ago #5

I honestly don't know how the profligate Republicans claimed a mantle of fiscal responsibility... Beartracks 2 hrs ago #6

Drunken sailors are starting to look pretty responsible in comparison. eppur_se_muova 2 hrs ago #9

More like discredit. calimary 1 hr ago #11

If we had a messaging apparatus ... Scrivener7 1 hr ago #12

Doesn't congress also bear equal responsibility for the debt? MichMan 1 hr ago #13

The solution is obvious. Pinback 1 hr ago #15

No all of our elected representatives are responsible for the US debt. N/T Jacson6 1 hr ago #16