The White House used Trump’s comments as an opportunity to tout Bidenomics victories.
The White House took aim at former President Donald Trump after the Republican presidential candidate frontrunner said he hoped the economy would crash this year rather than during his theoretical second term.
“A commander in chief’s duty is to always put the American people first; never to hope that hard-working families suffer economic pain for their own political benefit,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
In an interview that aired Monday on the right-wing video platform Lindell TV, Trump said, “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.”
Within the first year of Hoover’s presidency in 1929, the U.S. stock market experienced a devastating crash that evolved into the Great Depression, the longest and most scarring economic decline in American history. The depression spanned all of Hoover’s presidency, staining his legacy with the wounds of the recession. For example, homeless encampments that sprawled during the Great Depression came to be known as Hoovervilles.
