One year since President Donald Trump’s historic win, none of the hysterical predictions about his presidency have materialized. Here’s a look back at some of the top ones:
1. Trump would start a nuclear war.
Trump starting a nuclear war was a top fear, despite the candidate running on an anti-war platform and declaring that he would be “the last” to use a nuclear weapons.
The fear stemmed from attacks on Trump’s “temperament” and that he has not forsworn using nuclear weapons in an initial strike — which his predecessor did not do either.
2. Trump would start World War III.
Sister to the “Trump will start nuclear war” fear was the Trump is going to start World War III fear, despite his anti-war leanings and no clarifications as to what that would look like, or why it would happen.
For example, in a now-deleted tweet, businessman Mark Cuban tweeted, “Trump’s ignorance of the world could get us into a world war.”
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3. The stock market would crash if Trump won.
Liberal economist Paul Krugman predicted Trump’s win would cause a “permanent global recession” that the world would never recover from, based on a “regime that will be ignorant of economic policy.”
“So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight,” he wrote in an op-ed on election night.
Not only has a recession not happened, but U.S. gross domestic product growth is up from last year, and so is the world’s.
Others similarly predicted that the U.S. economy would tank and millions of jobs would be lost, but unemployment is at its lowest in 17 years.
more at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/09/predictions-donald-trump-presidency/