U.S. national debt tops $40 trillion
Do you think a $40 trillion national debt matters to a president who has filed bankruptcy multiple times?
Arleta James11I am so angry for what this means for us - and for what we're leaving the next generations to deal with.
dabxdee.bsky.social5The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
Tara ❌️👑4No. We're going to be his 7th damn bankruptcy! He's looting everything for himself!
Ron - and I resist2Absolutely not. He is throwing away money that is not his. As he has shown, he doesn’t care. Except for his family, and his enrichment.
Ben1It's likely going to end in strategic default and the majority of us are going to get destroyed financially.
SafeWaterCleanAir 💦☮️🌏🌍🌎1The president who found bankruptcy 6×3 casinos was responsible for 25% of our total historic debt in his first administration primarily by his tax cuts. Now he’s made it worse. Every war in my life has been started by a republican and I’m getting old. We lost every single damn war. 
America’s national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time- an ominous milestone for an economy that sits on a shaky fiscal foundation after decades of borrowing to pay for rising costs of military, social safety net programs and Trump’s tax cuts. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...
Ben17I want every dime of his estate confiscated to pay for the illegal spending he has and is doing. It won't pay off a trillion, but it will make a statement.
Judy Weston15Trump has stolen BILLIONS to enrich himself, his family and the oligarchs he favors. He is a traitor of the worst ilk.
gladdiegoodevening.bsky.social11Gosh. If only there were some people who weren’t paying their taxes that we could make pay their taxes and pay for it.
Mary Grace9Borrowing for social safety net programs is good borrowing.
razzmataz742.bsky.social7…. What “social safety net programs”? Over 40% is solely from the orange cancer regime itself. Most of the rest is various wars in the ME other tax cuts, like Reagan and W. Don’t lie and pretend spending money on healthcare is in any way equivalent to the gop blowing everything
Don Comer4Trump is the least fiscally responsible president EVER. Where are all those Tea Party right-wingers? Swallow their tongues?:
Boom National debt reaches grim $40 trillion milestone. Here’s why that matters www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/e...
Jay33you forgot to mention that the current president of the United States is responsible for 28% of that debt. Over $11 trillion 
The Big Z26Wow, it must be serious if we're talking about the deficit when a Republican is in office.
J. Rowe11It apparently doesn't matter, according to Republicans. So they'd better keep their mouths shut when a Democrat becomes President. I don't want to hear any more "omg the national debt" talk from any Republican.
Dr Robin9The GOP is not fiscally responsible. We need a Dem in the White House to clean it up.
BoyGenius7Jake, why did it take Jon Ossoff to bring attention to Natalie Harp? What are you guys doing?
dabxdee.bsky.social6The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
Michael E. Mann117Wait, this doesn't make any sense. Republicans are deficit hawks!
AnthropoceneMPG 🌊5Chump’s vanity projects: ballroom . . . ICE, Iran . . .
Justin5ok it might be important but how does it relate to Joe Biden’s age
Kent Fellows4Because of the reserve currency status of the USD, the United States has the longest runway in the world on which to run debt before they face consequences. But, they're simultanously speeding up debt accumulation and dynamiting their reserve currency runway. It's a colossal set of unforced errors.
Richmond Eustis2I will never understand why so many people think Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility and restraint.
Christian Rincon2if Democrats want to take the debt seriously without penalizing the rest of us, they should tax billionaire wealth at like 20%-30%
BREAKING: US national debt officially hits $40 trillion for the first time ever, per FOX
quandia.bsky.social10“Fiscally responsible” Republicans are in charge of all the branches of the government, ladies and gentlemen.
Emily9This wasn't supposed to happen til 2027. The Trump admin is burning money even faster than they steal it. Meanwhile, the bond markets are selling off like a going out of business sale. The US 30 yr bond rate hit 5.3% With a $40T debt, even tiny gains in bond rate translate to billions in interest
dabxdee.bsky.social5The real welfare queens and terrorists are not coming from other countries, they're right on Capitol Hill, holding office, wearing robes and badges, and running multi billion dollar corporations. All on your dime. Your oppression is their profession. pathological psychopaths.
b9a1baa8.bsky.social4The failed casino owner added 29% of that $40T in debt.
bselena.bsky.social3So thrifty of you Trump… while cutting off our healthcare assistance, our SNAP benefits, our FEMA assistance, our educational assistance…. as far as I can tell Trump and the Trump administration and the Trump crime family are the only people benefiting from TRUMP being in office. We are toast.
Jack Diddly Squat - Distinguished Fellow2GOP - Biden did it
Breaking news: The US’s national debt has hit a record $40tn as borrowing rises at a historic pace, fuelling investor concerns about the state of America’s public finances despite Donald Trump’s vow to bring spending under control. ft.trib.al/fN5D7I6
Athena Kugblenu17I know this is a basic be-atch thing to say but a lot of people voted exactly for this. They wanted their white supremacist icon to enrich himself and oppress minorities. They didn't care about robbing the whole country because they were poor when they voted for him and they'll be poor when he goes
Miles King2how much of this is being funnelled into the Trump Crime Family?
FACTS: The #US national debt just surpassed $40 trillion. At least $12.3 trillion (30.75%) of this total was acquired during the 5 yrs and 7 months #Trump has been in office. #RemoveTheMotherF #Resist @mlipsitt.bsky.social @larrycolvin.bsky.social @kaplanikids.bsky.social @able1954.bsky.social
glenbernie.bsky.social3The United States can’t afford to keep him alive
Clem H. Fandango2He spending like a drunk sailor on holiday. No offense to any sailors its an old saying. Watch the movie The Last Detail
Rose Ann The Sharer1The debt isn't the problem. To whom the money went is the problem. Congress has allow the Federal Reserve to give trillions illegally to the mafiacracy since 2009. We can stop this with individuals of integrity and courage who support #TheCleanNewDeal.org.
