Despite all of the suggestions that President Trump is a wild man who’s going to destroy the American economy, on Wednesday, the second quarter GDP numbers came in at 3%, well beyond expectations.

That’s a very solid number.

Democrats are freaking out over all of this.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns that the economy better stay strong because on the other side, you’ve got a bunch of rampant socialists ready to go, saying, “Why are we on the verge of Caracas-on-the-Hudson in New York? Why is this guy getting traction? Because young people are disillusioned with the system. So when you do this, you make everyone a shareholder. You make everyone a stakeholder. People who are part of the system do not want to bring down the system.”

This means it’s very important that the Trump economy stay on track. And here’s where you have a lot of crosswinds in the Trump economy; there are some very, very salutary signs for the Trump administration, and there are also some kind of strange things about this GDP report that could signal choppy waters in the future.

As The Wall Street Journal pointed out:

Most striking are the second quarter report’s wild internal details. Net exports (exports minus imports) added a remarkable 4.99% to GDP as imports fell 30.3%. Imports subtract from growth in the national accounts because GDP measures domestic production. Imports are produced overseas. But imports are still crucial to U.S. economic well-being because consumers buy them and businesses use them as inputs for what they produce—and often export. The crazy swing in imports shows how much Mr. Trump’s up-and-down trade policies have disrupted business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment, which fell 15.6% in the second quarter after a surge in the first. 

Nonresidential business investment contributed only 0.27% to GDP, as businesses rapidly drew down their inventories. Chalk this up as another result of the uncertainty caused by on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs. The doughty U.S. consumer was less affected, contributing 0.98% to GDP—decent if hardly bullish. But it’s notable that final sales to private domestic purchasers, a key measure of demand, rose only 1.2%. That’s the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2022.

Prices continue to remain steady, which is why you’re not seeing inflation right now. So what does all of this mean?

The answer is nobody knows. The Wall Street Journal is saying this openly. The second quarter was all but over before the passage of the one “big, beautiful bill.” It’s going to have new incentives for business investment. It could save the Trump economy. Trade, on the other hand, is pushing back against that. So you have a bunch of these cross-cutting effects.

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The bottom line is that the economy must remain strong in order to prevent the insane Democrats from winning races. And they have lost their ever-loving minds. If you thought that they were going to turn around after being defeated by President Trump and the Republicans and perhaps turn toward sanity, there is zero evidence that this is the case.

They continue to swing out to the more and more insane Left in the hopes that President Trump will collapse and basically hand them the presidency and the Congress.

This is the prime reason the economy has to be the top priority.