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Watch: Biden Gets Torched Live by Fox News Graphics, Shows the Truth About 'Bidenomics'

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It was a tale of two stories as Fox News covered President Joe Biden’s declaration that his economic policies were turning the nation around.

In a clip posted to Twitter, Biden was shown complaining about what he called “trickle-down economics” according to a White House transcript of his comments.

“The entire towns and communities, from where I lived all the way out there and through the Midwest, were shut down, hollowed out.  I mean literally hollowed out,” he said.

As Biden was talking, graphics posted by Fox News showed that consumer prices rose 15 percent between January 2021 and May 2023; that May’s inflation rate is at 4 percent and that consumer credit-card debt rose 28 percent under Biden.

“Bidenomics.  We’re turning this around,” Biden said as a graphic showed that average hourly earnings have declined 3.1 percent from January 2021 to May 2023.

“We’re supporting targeted investments.  We’re strengthening America’s economic security, our national security, our energy security, and our climate security,” he said, moments after Fox News posted graphics showing existing home sales were down 34 percent between January 2021 and May 2023 and that new home sales were down 15 percent in that period.

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Some called Biden “delusional” while another poster wrote, ‘I feel embarrassed for America.”

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“Republican lawmakers couldn’t have made the case against Bidenomics better if they had tried,” Noah Rothman wrote in National Review after the speech.

“Indeed, if they can’t leverage Biden’s indictment of his own economic policies for all the political value they’re worth, they’re in the wrong business,” he wrote.

In an editorial, the New York Post also said Bidenomics is a failure.

“Steep inflation, declining real incomes, a falling stock market and deepening inequality. Not usually cause for a presidential victory lap. Still, the president frames Bidenomics as chiefly pursuing policies that are ‘pro-worker’ and ‘pro-investment.’ Instead, his policies resuscitate long-rejected big government failures,” it wrote.

“All in all, Bidenomics relies on vast subsidies and regulations to shield favored industries from competition, at the expense of consumers and taxpayers. It’s a spoils system for big labor and politically connected industries,” it wrote.

“Given the soaring federal debt, steep inflation and falling incomes, its no wonder that the president would rather criticize ‘trickle-down’ straw men than defend his economic record,” the editorial said.

Although Biden said he had done great things, the Associated Press reported that only 34 percent of Americans were pleased with his economic leadership, citing a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll of 1,220 adults was conducted June 22-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

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Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.
Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com.
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