Trump crows about the U.S. economy at Davos as Senate impeachment trial begins back home

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Trump trumpeted what he called “America’s extraordinary prosperity” on his watch, taking credit for a soaring stock market, a low unemployment rate, and a “blue-collar boom” in jobs and income, in a presidential turn on the world stage that was also meant to make impeachment proceedings against him in Washington look small.

Trump ran through economic statistics with a salesman’s delivery, crowing about growth during his three years in office that he said bested his predecessors and defied his skeptics.

“America is thriving, America is flourishing, and, yes, America is winning again like never before,” he told an audience of billionaires, world leaders, and figures from academia, media and the kind of international organizations and think tanks for which his “America First” nationalism is anathema. Continue reading.