Trump PANICS, and CANCELS all economic reports

If the economy were booming the way Donald Trump insists it is, why would he hide the evidence?

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Trump’s New Lack of Economic Reporting Is the Biggest Red Flag Yet

There are many ways to tell when a president is panicking. Sometimes it is the tone of the speeches. Sometimes it is an unhinged social media rant.

And sometimes it is when a president tries to turn off reality itself.

Right now, Donald Trump is doing the last one.

We are witnessing something extraordinary and dangerous. Trump is not tweaking statistics. He is not spinning the numbers. He is canceling them. The October jobs report is gone. The October inflation report has vanished. The first estimate of third quarter GDP, which tells us whether the economy is expanding or shrinking, has been erased. Federal statistical agencies are blaming a government shutdown. Trump is hoping you do not ask any follow-up questions.

Let me give you the follow-up question anyway.

If the economy were booming the way Donald Trump insists it is, why would he hide the evidence?

The Numbers Tell a Story. Trump Is Burning the Book.

A president who truly believes the data is good rushes it out. You get a press conference. You get a victory lap. You get Trump on stage yelling about the greatest economy in history.

Instead, Trump is smashing the thermometers and declaring the fever cured.

Every one of these cancellations points to the same conclusion. The Trump administration knows the reports will not match the fantasy. They know that if the October jobs report came out, it would contradict the claim that jobs are exploding. They know the inflation report would not support the talking point that prices are falling. They know the GDP preview would not let Trump brag about growth.

And that is why the reports do not exist.

Trump Wants Emergency Fed Rate Cuts. That Alone Gives Away the Game.

Here is the contradiction Trump does not want you to notice.

He says the economy is great. He also wants the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates by three or four percentage points. Massive rate cuts are what presidents beg for when the economy is on life support. You do not request defibrillators when the patient is feeling terrific.

If the economy were actually strong, Trump would not be demanding monetary CPR.

Welcome to the Data Blackout

We are now in a bizarre situation where:

• Policymakers do not know what is happening in the economy

• Businesses do not know whether to hire or freeze

• Workers do not know whether their industry is growing or collapsing

• Retirees and families do not know how to plan for inflation

• Investors do not know if GDP is rising or falling

Without these reports, everyone is guessing. That is not a bug. It is the point.

When the referee turns off the scoreboard, the team that is losing is always behind it.

The Authoritarian Playbook Is Not a Mystery

Look at history.

Governments that fear bad news do not debate it. They suppress it. They hide unemployment numbers. They delay inflation reports. They replace data with propaganda. The regime says everything is fine. Citizens have no numbers to contradict the claim.

Trump is now attempting this in the United States.

This is not paranoia. It is happening in plain view. Trump has already censored agencies when facts were inconvenient. Now he is isolating the entire economy.

Why This Is a Five-Alarm Fire

There are two possible explanations for what we are seeing:

1. The economic numbers are bad

2. The economic numbers are catastrophic

If they were good, they would be printed on gold foil and handed out at rallies.

The Trump administration is erasing the scoreboard because the scoreboard is ugly. Once you allow a president to turn off data when the truth becomes uncomfortable, democracy becomes optional. Facts become negotiable. The economy becomes whatever the president says it is.

This is how authoritarian systems begin.

And here is the simplest test of all:

If the economy were as strong as Trump claims, the data would not be disappearing.

It would be everywhere.

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