Opinion Yes, Donald Trump is to blame for this depression to dump on President Biden's lap to deal with as a result of his lawlessly hacked insurgency of a un-American and grotesque nature from 2017 to 2020, and until eventually the tRump atrocity on humanity got the real majority American boot!, and you want to know why? Well consider the following reasons why:
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo that was comically sycophantic even by Fox News standards (“Where does this resilience come from, that you keep getting things done in the face of all of this?” she asked at one point), President Trump made clear Thursday that though we might be in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, anyone looking to place responsibility should look elsewhere:
Trump is at least partially correct. There has been a somewhat understandable reluctance to blame him for the horrific economic situation, given that because of the coronavirus we were forced to put the economy in a kind of suspended animation. It’s reinforced by the fact that Trump only reluctantly supported the stay-at-home orders imposed by states, and almost immediately began complaining that they had gone too far and we should resume normal economic activity.
Especially when so many are using the misleading formulation that we can either save lives or reopen the economy, and Trump is an advocate of the latter (and seems to have moved on from trying at all to control the pandemic), it can make it seem like he’s not responsible for our economic hardship.
But he is. In fact, this depression is absolutely Trump’s fault. He made a series of disastrous decisions that led us to this point, and other countries that have had far different experiences illustrate what might have happened if we had a president who wasn’t so utterly incompetent."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/14/yes-donald-trump-is-blame-this-depression/