Despite having been the president for eight months now, Donald Trump is still trying to point the finger and place blame for his administration’s shortcomings and declining GDP on Joe Biden.
Speaking from the White House, Trump excused the plunging GDP numbers, “you probably saw some numbers today,” the president told reporters, “And I have to start off by saying, that’s Biden, that’s not Trump.” He goes on to claim that the country is still feeling the effects of the previous administration, you know, the one that ended eight months ago. Shamefully, this isn’t the first time he’s done this, and it likely won’t be the last.
“We came in on January, those are quarterly numbers, and we came in and uh, I was very uh, against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy. Destroying our country.”
He tries to claim that the numbers that have been released are still from the Biden administration as they are “quarterly.” Allow me to explain for those, like Trump, that are bad at maths, quarterly means quarter of a year, a year is 12 months, Trump has been the president for eight months meaning the numbers of the most recent quarter were without a doubt his doing.
Trump on declining GDP: You probably saw some numbers today. I have to start off by saying that's Biden, not Trump. Because we came in on January — these are quarterly numbers. @Acynpic.twitter.com/dvXcXLVOHi
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 16, 2025
While such an excuse may have worked at the start of Trump’s reign, it’s worn thin now, even thinner than Trump’s wispy hair. People simply aren’t buying it anymore.
Donald Trump is bad at lying and at math
On X people called out the blatantly bogus claims. “Respectfully quarter of a year is the last 3 months. You have been president for 9 months already.” Wrote one angry individual, (they were off by one month but their point still stands), another asked, “Who’s going to tell him how many months are in a quarter?” Meanwhile a third joked, “Quarters last quite a lot longer than I thought they did.”
While Trump is quick to pin the blame for his shortcomings on a man who isn’t relevant in the current political landscape, you can bet he’d be quick to take the credit for any booms in the economy. “You can’t cherry-pick the economy.” Wrote another person on X, “If the boom is yours, so is the bust. When the numbers drop, leadership means owning the data, not rewriting it.”
It seems people aren’t quite as easy to fool as Trump was probably hoping. He’s been spouting nonsense statistics and numbers for quite some time now. Over the weekend he claimed that almost 90% of the American population had died from drugs. Then, just a couple of days later, he claimed that immigrants were taking more than 100% of new jobs in the country.
Despite being called out every single time the president continues to lie through his teeth and the sad part is that some people are buying into it. Thankfully many seem to be waking up to his deceptive words and misleading “facts.”
