When is Enough ,Enough?

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by mooby

He's just tossing it out there casually just to gauge feedback. Probably trying to figure out if it's a legit option at this point, which according to reddit it's not.

Id bet my house its to distract on the bad economic news today. This appears to be his MO when bad news is coming down the pipeline. When Ivanka was reported to have sent hundreds of emails from her personal email .. trump was worried how that would look so he made bombastic defenses of the Saudi Prince who just ordered the dismemberment of the reporter khashoggi.

And it worked.

------------------

The coronavirus pandemic triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern American history, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — shrank at an annual rate of 32.9% in the second quarter as restaurants and retailers closed their doors in a desperate effort to slow the spread of the virus, which has killed more than 150,000 people in the U.S.

The economic shock in April, May and June was more than three times as sharp as the previous record — 10% in 1958 — and nearly four times the worst quarter during the Great Recession.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...t-quarter-ever

The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits rose for the second consecutive week last week as coronavirus cases surged around the country.

Roughly 1.43 million people filed for unemployment last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday. The figure is a 12,000 increase from the previous week. Unemployment claims had been falling for four months from a peak in March.

The number of people collecting jobless benefits also increased to 17 million, up from 16.2 million the week prior.
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/...nsecutive-week