Trump: Economy in Second Term Will Blow First Term’s Away

President Donald Trump on Thursday night boasted about how the U.S. economy is roaring and that its performance in his second term will “blow away” how it fared in his first term, which he often has touted as the “greatest economy in history.”

“[Just] 165 days into the Trump administration, America is on a winning streak, like frankly, nobody’s ever seen before in the history of the presidency,” Trump said at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines in a speech that aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform.

Trump, who was in Iowa to kick off the one-year countdown to the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, spoke hours after Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, sending it to him to sign into law Friday, America’s 249th birthday.

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