Two consecutive quarters with declines in GDP were historically used to determine if a country is in a recession, but now that this has happened in the US, the administration has been trying to spin it that this is not an "official" definition or that other economic factors need to be considered.
I went to the Wikipedia article for "Recession" to see if this redefinition was in place and if I could find a recent edit where it happened, and sure enough… Here's
the edit from yesterday to the "Recession" article where the "two quarters" definition was excluded from applying to the United States.
The
previously-cited article which is apparently no longer trustworthy is explicitly tagged with "U.S. Recession."
Some truth-inclined people are peeing into the ocean on the talk page, but we all know how that will go.