'Wildly disconnected from reality': Trump slammed for playing golf as economy nosedives

07 April

U.S. President Donald Trump waves to supporters as he departs his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., March 29, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

On Sunday, April 6, President Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to post a video of himself golfing.

Trump's critics are slamming the video as tone-deaf, as it came during a time of considerable anxiety over the U.S. economy. The stock market is responding very negatively to Trump's steep new tariffs, with retirement accounts plummeting in value and fears of a recession growing.

The stock market was still in freefall on Monday morning, April 7. And MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle attacked Trump as painfully out of touch during an appearance on the cable news outlet's program "Morning Joe."

Ruhle told MSNBC pundit Katty Kay, "The thing that's really alarming about what our government is doing is: Think about this weekend. Over this weekend, I was talking to former colleagues of mine from Deutsche Bank saying: compare this weekend to where we were in 2008, right? That famous 2008 weekend where traders were flooding back to trading desks to figure out what was their counterparty exposure to, to all other banks out there, how bad was it going to be?"

Ruhle added, "Well, juxtapose that with all the traders flooding back to their trading desks last night."

Ruhle referenced the Wall Street meltdown of September 2008 and the Great Recession, which was the United States' worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Recession started under President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack Obama.

Ruhle told Kay, "You know what the big difference was between last night and 2008? In 2008, the government was spending the weekend frantically figuring out how to save us. And what happened this weekend? The president was playing golf and sending out tweets that were wildly disconnected from reality. That's the difference. You make an investment based on those changes."

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