The highest federal Income tax rate was reduced from 39.6% to 37% at the start of 2018.Trump cut corporate tax rates from 35% in 2017 to 21% in 2018.Of the $1 trillion federal budget in 2020, $893 billion is a deficit and half of that will be owed to China.Outside of the COVID-19 Relief Bills passed, Trump increased spending on agriculture more than any other area, jumping 194% between 20, from $14.2b to $41.7b.During his presidency, national debt increased 37.1% under Trump.In comparison, only Barack Obama had increased national debt more, totaling $8.3 trillion throughout his 8 years as President. In less than one term, the debt under Trump’s presidency increased more than $7.5 trillion. Treasury Direct: Debt to the Penny That's $5.138 billion a day. That’s Donald Trump.Data & Guides Money National Debt Under Trump It short circuits a person’s need to get along with others and makes them arrogant and unresponsive, like a child. When he’s given hundreds of millions of dollars at a young age that’s going to change a person. Part of the problem may be genetic (maybe he got it from that uncle who was an MIT professor!) but a lot of it, I think, probably originated from being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I would put his emotional age at about 10 years old, but not just an average 10 years old but a self-absorbed 10 year old, perhaps suffering from a form of autism. In fact, Donald Trump has a child-like unawareness of how the things he says comes off as offensive. Children start to grow up when they learn not to say every thought that crosses their minds, and to express things in a way that doesn’t offend others. The lack of filter on his thoughts, such as when he called people in Iowa “stupid”, or when he “jokes” about shooting people on fifth avenue, is another example of childlike behavior. What, exactly, does Great mean? I suspect even Donald does not know. “Make America Great!” is as childish as it is unspecific. But Trump is not writing a fifth grade essay, he is running for President. This is what fifth graders are chided for when they write essays without getting into specifics. The solution will be “great”, but unspecified. The same goes for veteran’s care and a whole host of issues. When asked about Obamacare, he says he will replace it with something “great”. But Trump is acting like a small child saying, “It’s not fair! It’s not fair!”Įven his policy prescriptions are childlike. A rational adult is not afraid of tough questioning, even from biased questioners. Nor is going on twitter to “poll” his supporters to get their opinion. That is not the behavior of a rational adult. Because Trump feels offended by Megyn Kelly, he is avoiding the next debate. Ted Cruz is way smarter than Donald Trump, but somehow Cruz doesn’t start every speech by saying, “I know I’m smart I went to Harvard.” There is something very insecure, very childlike, about a candidate who needs to repeat how smart he is over and over, like a teenager who is unsure of himself.Ĭhildren also get easily offended. The same goes for Trump repeating how smart he is, because he transferred into Wharton college and has an uncle who taught at MIT (as if that has anything to do with anything). But Trump can’t talk about it enough he does it to such excess, that he is like a child at a swimming pool calling for his parents’ attention, saying “Look at me, look at me!”. When Mitt Romney and John McCain were ahead in primary polls, they didn’t spend 20 minutes of each rally reading off each and every poll. It’s no different from a child calling another child a dootie-head.Īnother childish characteristic is excessive egotism. Ted Cruz may say he disagrees with Donald Trump’s longstanding support for partial birth abortion, but Donald Trump will just respond that Ted Cruz is “dumb” or “unlikeable”. Instead of responding to each other’s arguments, children just give blanket assertions that the others around them are bad. This is the language children use in criticizing one another. Everyone he disagrees with is called a “loser” or “stupid” or “failing”. What would you say Donald Trump’s emotional age is? The reason I ask is because of his very questionable, even childish behavior.
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