Axios perhaps just inadvertently committed one of the most based forms of narrative-wrecking journalism ever to hit the leftist media ecosphere by admitting the Trump economy is a lot better than what the propaganda suggests.
Axios economics reporter Courtenay Brown and Chief Economics Correspondent Neil Irwin — the latter of which forecasted economic doom since President Donald Trump first took office — released a shocking Thanksgiving Eve story declaring that “the biggest-picture indicators point to this being one of the better economies of modern times.”
Talk about a seismic concession for an outlet that had been routinely denigrating Trump’s agenda from the get-go. As Brown and Irwin wrote, “There have been plenty of ominous warnings this year about the job market, trade war-fueled inflation, asset bubbles, and more. The mighty U.S. economy has chugged ahead in 2025 despite them all.” In fact, “through 11 months of 2025, the overall trajectory is pretty darn solid.” Well, dang!
But of course, the authors tried to throw President Joe Biden a line by tracing some of the markers as far back as his administration, which makes sense given that Irwin was a notorious Bidenomics simp. Brown and Irwin pointed to a bevy of economic indicators such as unemployment remaining under 4.5 percent for 47 consecutive months, glossing over the fact that during Biden’s term, millions were still missing from the labor force. But now, as EJ Antoni pointed out based on the recent September jobs numbers, “Net job growth in Sep was from full-time hiring and replacing part-time work w/ those full-time jobs; this is a welcomed improvement after the weakness earlier in the year.”
Another core factor Brown and Irwin highlighted was America spending more “than any other nation”on artificial intelligence, “betting on technology that could have transformative effects for the economy and worker productivity.” The stock market, in effect, is near an all-time high, the Axios reporters continued, having spiked 16 percent this year alone.
The media writ large have been chasing their tails trying to rationalize why the Trump economy, regardless of one’s perspective on his tariff agenda, continued to defy the apocalyptic prophecies they churned out like clockwork over the past year.
CNN was probably the main villain behind much of the doom and gloom propaganda circulating around the Trump economy. The network’s response to the September jobs report blowing past expectations with a nonfarm payroll increase of 119,000 against a 50,000 estimate encapsulates how the leftist media is currently scrambling to salvage their narrative that Trump was driving the economy over a cliff: “Wait, I thought the economy was terrible. What happened?”
“What happened” was that reality flushed the media economic scareporn down the toilet vortex. Thanks for coming to our Ted Talk.
