What is ‘The Trump Rule’?
President Donald Trump broke down his strategy on growing the economy amid good news for America in the latest estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
by Summer Lane | December 26, 2025
With Christmas in the rearview mirror, President Donald Trump is looking ahead to 2026 and touting the progress his administration has made in the economy in 2025.
“The Financial News today was great — GDP up 4.2% as opposed to the predicted 2.5% (and this, despite the downward pressure of the recent Democrat Shutdown!) — But in the Modern Market, when you have good news, the Market stays even, or goes down, because Wall Street’s ‘heads’ are wired differently than they used to be,” the president said in a statement earlier this week.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the GDP did rise an estimated 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025 – July, August, and September – and real GDP increased by 3.8 percent in the second quarter.
Despite a weeks-long government shutdown, the GDP rose more than some experts predicted and even found an increase in consumer spending.
In his statement celebrating the good news on the economy, President Trump warned that the markets might dip, and heavily pressured the next yet-to-be-unannounced incoming Federal Reserve Chairman to “lower Interest Rates if the Market is doing well, not destroy the Market for no reason whatsoever.”
The president continued:
“I want to have a Market the likes of which we haven’t had in many decades, a Market that goes up on good news, and down on bad news, the way it should be, and the way it was. Inflation will take care of itself and, if it doesn’t, we can always raise Rates at the appropriate time — But the appropriate time is not to kill Rallies, which could lift our Nation by 10, 15, and even 20 GDP points in a year — and maybe even more than that! A Nation can never be Economically GREAT if ‘eggheads’ are allowed to do everything within their power to destroy the upward slope.”
The president called his strategy on this matter “THE TRUMP RULE,” and dug in on his argument that an organic free market reaction to this GDP growth would result in further economic stimulation.
“The United States should be rewarded for SUCCESS, not brought down by it. Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!” he warned.
Although it is unknown who the president has in mind to lead the Federal Reserve, speculation abounds that the current Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, may be a frontrunner for the position.
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