Last week, Donald Trump apparently saw Charlamagne Tha God, a prominent radio host and author, appear on Fox News, and the the president was unimpressed. In fact, he published an item to his social media platform in which he called the media figure “a Low IQ individual” and “a dope.”
To bolster his case, Trump argued, among other things, that Charlamagne didn’t appear to know that his White House is responsible for “creating the greatest economy, where prices and Inflation have come way down.”
Putting aside the racist implications of Trump repeatedly referring to people of color as low-IQ, the president’s boasts were demonstrably wrong. The current U.S. economy clearly isn’t the “greatest,” and the idea that he and his administration have brought inflation “way down” is routinely contradicted by reality.
Consider the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The New York Times reported that the White House’s trade tariffs have “intensified price pressures across a wider range of consumer goods and services.” From the article:
We can only hope that Trump doesn’t start firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ acting leadership because it released data he didn’t like.
All joking aside, the gap between the president’s assurances and the real-world evidence is quickly growing into a chasm. Two weeks ago, for example, the Republican sat down with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine and made a rather specific claim — not only about the key economic issue, but about his...
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