Biden Blasts Trump After He Wishes For A Stock Market Collapse

Topline President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign hit back at former President Donald Trump for saying he hopes the economy crashes within the next 12 months, taking advantage of an opportunity to criticize Trump on the economy as Biden’s own economic record suffers with voters. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Emanuel AME Church on January 8, 2024 in ...

[+] Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Key Facts “Trump should just say he doesn’t give a damn about people,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told CNN in response to Trump’s comments, accusing Trump of a “relentless pursuit of power and retribution.” Trump on Monday predicted the economy would crash and that he hopes it will happen within the next year, he said in an interview with Lindell TV, adding “I just don’t want to be Herbert Hoover.” The 1929 stock market crash during Hoover’s first year as president was a precursor to the Great Depression.

The Biden campaign’s sharp rebuke of Trump comes as the president has made his own economic achievements a hallmark of his reelection campaign under the branding “Bidenomics,” but the messaging strategy appears to have failed to net traction with voters, who say they have dismal views about the economy and trust Trump over Biden to manage it, according to some polls.

Surprising Fact Biden called Trump “Donald ‘Herbert Hoover’ Trump” during a campaign fundraiser in December, while referencing job losses during his term. Key Background Biden and Trump are headed for a likely rematch in the November general election, and polls show it could be a close contest, with Trump leading Biden as of Tuesday by 1.2 points, according to RealClearPolitics polling average .

Biden has ramped up his attacks against Trump in recent days, starting with his first major campaign speech of the 2024 election season in Pennsylvania on Friday, on the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He also delivered a speech in South Carolina on Monday as he seeks to rebuild his standing with Black voters, a key demographic group that has strayed from the president during his first term, polling has suggested.

In both speeches, Biden condemned Trump’s failed efforts to contest the 2020 presidential election, referring to him as a “loser.” He has also cast Trump as a threat to democracy and rebuked him for his commentary about immigrants that echoed language used by Adolf Hitler ..