Vance pleads for 'patience' on the economy in sharp departure from Trump's rhetoric

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday acknowledged that the Trump administration faces growing skepticism over its economic record, issuing a plea for patience ahead of what he predicted would be an eventual “economic boom.”

“We get it and we hear you, and we know that there’s a lot of work to do,” Vance said during a Breitbart News event. “As much progress as we’ve made, it’s going to take a little time for Americans to feel that.”

The conciliatory tone represented a sharply different approach from the one taken in recent weeks by President Donald Trump, who has continued to insist that the economy is thriving while dismissing cost-of-living concerns as little more than a Democratic talking point.

It also underscored the White House’s ongoing efforts to calibrate its messaging on the economy ahead of next year’s midterm elections — and in the aftermath of GOP losses in New Jersey and Virginia earlier this month that voters indicated were driven in large part by deep disappointment with Trump’s domestic agenda.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vance-pleads-patience-economy-sharp-191641580.html

You mean it'll all trickle down on us sooner or later? 🙄

[Prairie Gates]

1. Trump is lashing out in full-on dementia; Vance at least grasps that people can't lie to themselves

about their grocery and utility bills.

[haele]

2. Vance is trying to step up?

Hmmm.
Whenever he pops up, especially if he tries to sound reasonable, I wonder.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Shut up, Shady

Go see if your eyeliner is on straight.

[NCDem47]

4. The "Big Beautiful Bill" getting though and passing tax cuts for billionaires (with a "B")

Is what they cared about out of the gate. Nothing else.

I hate to say it, but Trump has through Labor Day of 2026 to shower all kinds of treats voters way to win them back---and some will "return home." Wild card is a total market meldown that this admin will have NO hope of recovering from.

Lackeys will try to do the hard work (or will they really?), but Trump is only in it to:

1) stay out of jail;
2) enrich himself;
3) enjoy the trappings of the office; and,
4) sick the government on his enemies.

That's it folks!

Sorry Donald. You getting drug makers to reduce cost of weight loss medication does not make eveything else now magically affordable. You have a forest on fire---not some little bush in the backyard.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. ...and a clarifying memo to mr. hot-shit "businessman" "president":

People who can no longer afford groceries seldom have much need for weight-loss medication. Not that you'd know anything about missing a meal, thunderthighs...

[Johonny]

6. Odd, that wasn't their 2024 campaign rhetoric

From I alone can fix it on day one, to give me time. If people wanted to give it time, they would have kept Joe Biden. He told them it could be done magically in an instant!

[underpants]

7. So a month or so ago it was "next year" then it was THE GREATEST EVER

I think they know people are going to feel it during the holidays

[wiggs]

8. Small chance their plan works. I'll hold open the possibility that prices go down in a disastrous economy,

since they are doing what they can to remove safety nets, cut infrastructure programs, reduce funding for fed departments, fire fed employees, cut subsidies, reduce options for health care, slow the economy via tariffs, reducing number of consumers via deportations, cause significant drops in tourism, increase bankruptcies due to medical debt, cause huge drops in consumer optimism, and more. How can these not result in hollowing out of the bottom 90%'s finances and recession? And we are no longer reliable trading partners with many other countries. How can this end up well for most of us?

[Wounded Bear]

9. If the public was patient, they would have voted for Kamala and continuing the Biden recovery plan...nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. MaddowBlog-The White House's celebration of the weak job market makes no sense

Job growth in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is on pace to be the worst since the Great Recession. So why is his team bragging?

Team Trump Pitch #1: Americans will see great economic results in early 2025.

Team Trump Pitch #2: Americans might see great economic results in late 2025.

Team Trump Pitch #3: Americans will hopefully see great economic results in the late summer of 2026.

Can’t wait for Pitch #4.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-21T14:58:55.467Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-celebration-weak-job-market-makes-no-sense-rcna245134

The job numbers for September were significantly delayed by the recent government shutdown, but when the data finally reached the public, the White House appeared eager to celebrate. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a written statement issued to news organizations:

The September jobs report more than doubled market expectations — adding 119,000 new jobs to the American economy. In stark contrast to the disastrous Biden economy, almost all of these new jobs were in the private sector and went to American-born workers instead of illegal aliens. … This strong report is more proof that President Trump’s pro-growth, America First agenda is already making great progress, and it will continue to deliver positive results for American families and businesses.

......And while the details from the White House were wrong, the bigger picture is worse.

Job growth in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is on pace to be the worst since the Great Recession (excluding 2020, when the pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy). We’re also seeing increased corporate layoffs and weak retail hiring as the holiday season approaches.

What’s more, the unemployment rate has reached a four-year high, job openings are at a four-year low, and leading members of Trump’s own economic team have gone so far as to concede in recent weeks that parts of the U.S. economy are already in recession.

Confronted with these facts, the White House press secretary boasted that Trump’s “America First agenda is already making great progress.” If the goal was to make the nation’s job market worse, then yes, the administration’s “progress” is remarkable. But if the point was to improve economic conditions, Leavitt and her colleagues appear to have things backward......

The latest polling suggests the strategy is failing badly, but Leavitt’s reaction to the latest employment report makes clear that the White House intends to keep telling the public not to believe what is plainly true: Trump’s agenda isn’t working.

[UTUSN]

11. "Asks for patience" - translation: Houston, we have a problem