Trump: maybe I made the greatest economy in history

Published: Apr 25, 2019 20:34

SMM4, 25 / 25-US President Donald Trump is now like an anti-counterfeiting fighter, and despite his time as president, he often takes the time to attack "fake news" on Twitter.

In another tweet, Trump complained that fake news did not thank him at all for his contribution, saying he may have created the greatest economy in history.

You can say that Trump may be overconfident or too narcissistic, but this is not the first time Trump has boasted about himself. Trump boasted at a gathering in Ohio as early as July 2017, saying Lincoln was number one and he could be second among the greatest presidents in the United States.

Three questionnaires conducted by C-SPAN in 2000, 2009 and 2017 by a team of American historians showed that Lincoln ranked first among the greatest presidents of the United States. Washington and Roosevelt ranked second and third. Among modern presidents of the United States, his old rival Barack Obama is at the top of the list, ranking 12th in the 2017 questionnaire. If Trump is to be in second place, he will have to squeeze out Washington, the founding president who led the American people to independence, and Roosevelt, the great leader who served four terms in World War II. But it is not impossible that history is made by man.

It is worth noting that Trump directly named New York Times columnist Krugman, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics and a famous economic prophet, on Twitter. He made a name for himself by accurately predicting the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis in his book popular internationalism. Academically, he is the main representative of the emerging Keynesian school of economics. In terms of policy, he strongly opposes Trump's launching a trade war and believes that this is going to kill himself, so he runs counter to Trump's political thinking. It's no surprise that two people don't like each other.

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