The National Debt Went Up 8 Trillion Under Trump In 4 Years

[kurtcagle]

5. Perspectives

The national debt went up $8 trillion under Obama in eight years, of which about half came from moving the costs of Bush's war onto the books (it had been unaccounted for in Bush's budget). That means that Trump would have been on track to see the budget deficit explode to between $18 and $20 trillion dollars if he'd gone another four years.


Also, the total GDP of the US is roughly $15 trillion a year.

I really wonder how much of that made its way to offshore accounts courtesy of der Cheeto.