Trump is ‘desperately cherry-picking the data’ on the economy, according to the Washington Post.
Trump has racked up thousands of lies in his short tenure in the White House — but his most recent statement about the economy essentially managed to squeeze 64 lies into a single tweet.
Trump falsely claimed that U.S. GDP growth (which was 4.2 percent last quarter) is higher than the country’s unemployment rate (currently 3.9 percent) for the first time in more than 100 years.
Like much of what Trump says, this is flatly untrue. But even for Trump, it’s a whopper of epic proportions.
View the complete article by Dan Desai Martin on the ShareBlue.com website September 10, 2018.