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Upset the media not reporting meaningless statistic
By Ana Swanson
February 25 at 2:44 PM
... “The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in Obama first mo,” Trump tweeted ...
The level of debt fluctuates day to day and week to week, depending on seasonal changes in growth and when the government makes payments, collects tax revenue, issues new debt and other debt matures — making the data very susceptible to cherry-picking ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/25/trump-is-upset-the-media-is-not-reporting-a-meaningless-statistic-about-the-national-debt/?utm_term=.448b6f167caf
