Economy Trump on the declining dollar: I think it's great!!

[Voodoo_Child906]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/the-dollar-is-sinking-trump-thinks-its-great-00750307

“I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa when asked about the currency’s decline. “Look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.”

It certainly makes exports cheaper (and imports more expensive), but the decline could be a sign of structural weakness that could cascade. Investors are moving to Gold and Silver instead of US TBills and if Japan's debt crisis worsens, they may be forced to dump a good portion of their 1 Trillion in US treasuries to prop up the yen. I never ever thought in my life I'd see a run on the US Dollar but we may be seeing the perfect storm approaching.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

straightforward from here:
- crash dollar
- sell gold at 10 quadrillion/ounce
-pay national debt with 2 nuggets of gold
-great success, economy bounces
- dollar inflates again
- buy back 12 quadrillion tons of gold for 1 (one) TRUMPSTRONG DOLLAR
-tremendous

 

[LEWIS540]

Politician tries to spin bad news for first time ever, I believe.

 

[lowlife]

straightforward from here:
- crash dollar
- sell gold at 10 quadrillion/ounce
-pay national debt with 2 nuggets of gold
-great success, economy bounces
- dollar inflates again
- buy back 12 quadrillion tons of gold for 1 (one) TRUMPSTRONG DOLLAR
-tremendous

someone get this man to Washington stat! lol

 

[Rational Poster]

The trade deficit has also increased the most in year in over 3 decades... I guess the trade deficit was never really a concern either.

 

[SurferH2O]

With the $37 trillion in debt the U.S. has racked up, this day will come. The question is, can we control the crash, or will it be chaos?

A crash can be used to our advantage to deal with the debt.... but will still be painful.

 

[wlu.29]

With the $37 trillion in debt the U.S. has racked up, this day will come. The question is, can we control the crash, or will it be chaos?

A crash can be used to our advantage to deal with the debt.... but will still be painful.

Explain how a weak dollar is advantageous to dealing with us debt?

 

[kingofthecans]

Don't worry. The new currency is RAM. It's all good folks.

 

[Romulas]

Explain how a weak dollar is advantageous to dealing with us debt?

TVM or the Time Value of Money. It's a financial principle that banks, businesses and smart people utilize when making financial decisions.

A simple example:

If you owe $100,000 and you make your money selling hamburgers for $10 each and you sell 1000 burgers a day so you make $1,000 per day. It will take 100 days to pay back what you owe.

When the dollar weakens, inflation occurs, and hamburgers now sell for $15 a burger. So now you're making $1,500 a day instead $1,000 and it will only take you 66 days to pay the money back.

There are of course other factors but this is the gist of it. I can get as granular as you'd like. I have an MBA in banking and corporate finance and worked at the 2nd largest IB in the world. I actively study economics and finance and own multiple businesses where I import raw materials, manufacture, wholesale and retail products. I plan on becoming a college professor in my 50s.

A dollar today is always going to be worth less tomorrow. So repaying debt with dollars devalued dollars works to the advantage of the borrower.

When the borrower also can control the money supply it puts them at a tremendous advantage. The US, China and EU have all been in a race to devalue their currencies since thr early 2000s.

 

[SurferH2O]

Explain how a weak dollar is advantageous to dealing with us debt?

It makes paying back the debt cheaper and promotes foreign investment in our products and services. This is Economics 101.

 

[Darkballs]

When the dollar weakens, inflation occurs, and hamburgers now sell for $15 a burger. So now you're making $1,500 a day instead $1,000 and it will only take you 66 days to pay the money back.

In this, make it the fuck up as we go along, economics lesson: How would a hamburger be worth 50% more due to inflation, but the costs of making the burger remained the same?

Somehow the cost of everything went up, so this guy can sell his burgers at a major markup, yet it didn't cost him any extra to make the burgers? So is the burger salesman just an asshole jacking up the price when there is no need for him to do so? Additionally, if inflation is so bad so as the cost of burgers is so much more expensive, how does everyone still have the same amount of money to spend on burgers? Wouldn't their spending power be down, given that your scenario calls for massive inflation and a weakened dollar?

For fucks sake, your entire argument boils down to: "Well, if the entire economy crashes except for this one burger salesman, and despite such economic shock, everyone just keeps on purchasing burgers just like they used to, then this guy does great!"

 

[Romulas]

In this, make it the fuck up as we go along, economics lesson: How would a hamburger be worth 50% more due to inflation, but the costs of making the burger remained the same?

Somehow the cost of everything went up, so this guy can sell his burgers at a major markup, yet it didn't cost him any extra to make the burgers? So is the burger salesman just an asshole jacking up the price when there is no need for him to do so? Additionally, if inflation is so bad so as the cost of burgers is so much more expensive, how does everyone still have the same amount of money to spend on burgers? Wouldn't their spending power be down, given that your scenario calls for massive inflation and a weakened dollar?

For fucks sake, your entire argument boils down to: "Well, if the entire economy crashes except for this one burger salesman, and despite such economic shock, everyone just keeps on purchasing burgers just like they used to, then this guy does great!"

You are #1 retardo.

It was a simple example for simple people but it wasn't simple enough I see. Google "time value of money" and read a little bit about it. Then google devalued currency and foreign debt.

These are basic economic and business principles.

 

[LMP]

You are #1 retardo.

It was a simple example for simple people but it wasn't simple enough I see. Google "time value of money" and read a little bit about it. Then google devalued currency and foreign debt.

These are basic economic and business principles.

Sure, but this ignores that the US has to burrow more money since Trump always runs huge deficits. So the US has to go further in debt at a faster rate to get the same value out. So it was a bad example. See the us isn't paying off its debt its continuing to add to it.

 

[Jar of Flies]

In this, make it the fuck up as we go along, economics lesson: How would a hamburger be worth 50% more due to inflation, but the costs of making the burger remained the same?

Somehow the cost of everything went up, so this guy can sell his burgers at a major markup, yet it didn't cost him any extra to make the burgers? So is the burger salesman just an asshole jacking up the price when there is no need for him to do so? Additionally, if inflation is so bad so as the cost of burgers is so much more expensive, how does everyone still have the same amount of money to spend on burgers? Wouldn't their spending power be down, given that your scenario calls for massive inflation and a weakened dollar?

For fucks sake, your entire argument boils down to: "Well, if the entire economy crashes except for this one burger salesman, and despite such economic shock, everyone just keeps on purchasing burgers just like they used to, then this guy does great!"

But he wrote more than a sentence. Most intelligent Trumper on here.

 

[wlu.29]

It makes paying back the debt cheaper and promotes foreign investment in our products and services. This is Economics 101.

It doesn't make your debt cheaper, you issue debt and repay it back in the same currency

 

[lowlife]

Explain how a weak dollar is advantageous to dealing with us debt?

Devaluing the dollar makes debt "easier" to pay because it lowers the value of what’s owed. It might sound cool but in reality the middle class and below get fng crushed. Inflation (which will happen through increasing the money supply/issuing more debt) is a regressive tax; wages lag, savings get wiped out, basic costs climb faster than people can adjust. Meanwhile there’s no real effort to stop overspending, so we keep growing the debt and all this really does is buy time. Confidence in the dollar continues to erode, foreign holders accelerate their exit from US debt ie treasuries which is already happening, and the problem compounds. Rich people will be fine, the "elite" will be fine, everyone else gets crushed. The real solution is to cut spending, close tax loopholes for the wealthy and corporations, keep interest rates relatively high. In other words economic pain/recession. Neither side seems willing to do the hard shit anymore though so we'll just take the "easy" way out and kick the can further down the road and fuck you if you can't take it. Look at what trump just said about wanting to keep driving the price of real estate up ffs. You will own nothing and be happy. We're on a runaway train that doesn't plan on stopping until it crashes.

 

[Croaker]

Sure, but this ignores that the US has to burrow more money since Trump always runs huge deficits. So the US has to go further in debt at a faster rate to get the same value out. So it was a bad example. See the us isn't paying off its debt its continuing to add to it.

Nobody was paying it off before either. You have to go back to 1835.

If Trump isn't doing it someone else will.

That's why its imperative we elect someone who actually will. When we do pay off the debt btw, it potentially crashes the entire world economy. We can't tax more have people spend even less. It's a super fucked situation.

 

[lowlife]

Nobody was paying it off before either. You have to go back to 1835.

If Trump isn't doing it someone else will.

That's why its imperative we elect someone who actually will. When we do pay off the debt btw, it potentially crashes the entire world economy. We can't tax more have people spend even less. It's a super fucked situation.

Clinton ran a surplus from '98 to 2001.

 

[Croaker]

Clinton ran a surplus from '98 to 2001.

He did not pay it off.

Glad you could read.

 

[HereticBD]

Explain how a weak dollar is advantageous to dealing with us debt?

You're not in business are you?