During his first term, Trump cut federal taxes while ramping up federal spending—both actions that led to substantial increases in federal budget deficits and the national debt. The strong economy he inherited from the Obama administration continued, with a labor market nearing full employment and household income and wealth indicators reaching new highs. Additionally, Trump imposed protectionist tariffs, mainly on Chinese imports. Over his first three years in office, the number of Americans without health insurance rose by 4.6 million (a 16% increase). His tax cuts, which largely benefited the wealthiest, failed to deliver on their promises, deepened income inequality, and reduced the country’s revenue needed to fund critical programs like Social Security and healthcare.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/2c298bda-8aee-4923-84a3-95a54f7f6e6f/did-trump-create-or-inherit-the-strong-economy.pdf
That one not only does a good job of capturing the issue, the links at the end are good resources too.
https://www.investopedia.com/donald-trump-presidency-economic-impact-8666666
This one also has good supporting links and highlights how his pre-pandemic economic tax cuts, which favored the wealthy, increased the national debt by 33.1%. That's a huge amount of additional debt. He started a trade war with China which, if it had not been for the pandemic, would have cost households in America about $1,200 annually. Furthermore, because of his policies, the yearly federal deficit expanded by roughly 46%, marking the third-largest increase, relative to the economy’s size, among all U.S. administrations—even before the pandemic began.
The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliverAlthough Trump pledged during the 2016 campaign to eliminate the national debt within eight years, as president he signed off on major spending increases and enacted the 2017 tax cut. Consequently, the federal budget deficit surged by nearly 50%, reaching close to $1 trillion in 2019. Under his administration, the national debt rose by 39%, climbing to $27.75 trillion by the end of his term. Meanwhile, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reached its highest level since World War II.
Trump (in his first term) ran up national debt twice as much as Biden: new analysis
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/trump-biden-debt-deficits-election
Data show Trump didn't 'build' a great economy. He inherited it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/data-show-trump-didn-t-build-great-economy-he-inherited-n1237793
Trump's economic numbers pre-pandemic.(the pandemic began in March 2020, this was published in January 2020).https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/trumps-numbers-january-2020-update/
Written by Dr. Vince