Trump contradicts himself: in 2024 he took credit for the stock market boom, now he blames Biden for the poor performance.

Donald Trump has sparked controversy over an apparent contradiction between two messages posted on his official social media accounts just over a year apart. In January 2024, the US president enthusiastically claimed that the stock market's rally was thanks to him. "This is the Trump Stock Market," he wrote, directly referring to the polls that at the time placed him ahead of Joe Biden. In that post, Trump argued that investors were already assuming his election victory, which he claimed was driving the rise in the markets. He even described the rest of the global economic outlook as "terrible" and asserted that record inflation had already taken its toll.

However, on April 30, 2025, more than 100 days into his second term as president, Trump radically changed his tune. “ This is Biden’s market, not Trump’s,” he posted, referring to economic indicators that had yet to show significant improvement. He argued that his administration was just beginning to implement measures like new tariffs, and that the economy was still “contaminated” by Biden’s so-called “overhang,” the lagging effects of his predecessor’s administration. He insisted that the economic boom would come later and called for patience.

The comparison between the two statements reveals a political strategy in which Trump takes credit for achievements when he's out of office but deflects responsibility once he's in office . In January 2024, intending to strengthen his campaign narrative, he appropriated market behavior as a direct reflection of his influence. But by April 2025, once he's settled in the White House, the same market ceased to be "his" and became a negative legacy of Biden's. This stance, which has begun to go viral on social media, calls into question the consistency of his economic rhetoric and fuels criticism of his way of dealing with data when it doesn't play in his favor.