BlockBeats News, February 20th: Trump posted a message this morning, 40 minutes before the U.S. GDP data was released, stating that “the U.S. GDP has dropped by at least 2 percentage points due to the Democratic government shutdown.”
40 minutes later, the U.S. released the GDP data for the fourth quarter of 2025, which was much lower than expected, dropping from 4.4% to 1.4%, a decrease of 300 basis points.
On January 10th, U.S. President Trump posted a chart on his Truth Social platform containing unreleased key U.S. non-farm payroll data, one day ahead of the official release, sparking market and public attention.
