Trump Hopes US Economy Crashes Before Possible 2nd Term: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Hoover’

Published on January 9, 2024

Former President Donald Trump said he aims to avoid a first year akin to President Herbert Hoover’s—during which the stock markets crashed, marking the onset of the 1929 Great Depression—should he win a second term in November. “We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did … It’s just running off the fumes,” President Trump said in a Jan. 8 interview with Lou Dobbs. “And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don’t want to be [is] Herbert Hoover.”...

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