Team Trump touts GDP growth with gaslighting and brazen lies

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Trump on Friday morning held a press event that amounted to a victory lap for the Gross Domestic Product growing by 4.1 percent in the second quarter of this year.

Trump gave himself all the credit for economic growth, while discrediting the record of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

“We have accomplished an economic turnaround of historic proportions,” Trump said. “Once again we are the economic envy of the entire world.”

Trump went on to tout jobs numbers in particular.

“We have added 3.7 million new jobs since the election,” Trump said. “A number that is unthinkable if you go back to the campaign. Nobody would have said it. Nobody would have even in an optimistic way projected it.”

Trump was fibbing. Though he claimed to have “added 3.7 million new jobs since the election,” 3.2 millions jobs have been created since his inauguration.

And it is simply not the case that Trump’s jobs record would have been “unthinkable” during the campaign. In fact, Obama’s jobs record during the final 17 months of his administration — a period of time encompassing Trump’s campaign — outperformed Trump’s during his first 17 months.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gdp-growth-second-quarter-2018-gaslighting-lies-fd1a100cac1d/

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1. I was shocked this morning

Our local (west coast) NBC affiliate declined to air Trump's hastily-called press availability live, and joined Chuck Todd in mid comment saying he thought Trump was going to pull a muscle from patting himself on the back. The comment was so startling I wondered what had happened to the real chucktodd, then decided I didn't care as this one was a big improvement. Then he threw it back to Savannah Guthrie at Studio 1A, who echoed the sentiment that Trump was blowing his own horn for something he didn't actually do.

It was a refreshing little burst of real journalism. Here's hoping it catches on.