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It’s late. But this is a layup.

Oct. 25, 2019 at 3:28 p.m. EDT
The U.S. government’s budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion in 2019, the Treasury Department announced Friday, as the United States’ fiscal imbalance widened for a fourth consecutive year despite a sustained run of economic growth. The deficit grew $205 billion, or 26 percent, in the past year.
This was despite his nonsense about balancing the budget
Was on track to be lower than Obama's previous term, until COVID.

Trump's policies didn't cause increased deficits.

Nice try.
Sure if you go out of your way to cherry pick the stat that supports you alternative history. Or just look at the last 4 Obama years that Trump inherited and compare it to his 4 years without covid...

2013 4.1% Sequester
2014 2.8% Debt ceiling crisis
2015 2.4% TPP, Iran deal
2016 3.1% Presidential race
2017 3.4% Trump Tax Act
2018 3.8% Deficit spending
2019 4.6% Government shutdown
2020 4.8% Budget before COVID-19

...deficit as percentage of GDP.

Actually that's not even the right cherry picked stat. You wanna go with comparing the first Obama term with Trumps.