Top White House economic adviser, Kevin Hassert, admits Trump tweeted false claim about the economy

Trump's claim that GDP tops the jobless rate for the first time in 'over 100 years' is not even close to correct

To believe the president's claim, you would have to overlook the dozens of times this has happened since 1948, when the government began collecting the official data series tracking the gross domestic product and the unemployment rate.

In fact, the annual rate of real GDP growth, measured on a quarterly basis, has topped the jobless rate more than 60 times.

Not, as Trump claimed, "only once in the last century".

Stated another way, during the 70 years since the government has tracked growth and unemployment, the real GDP growth rate has been higher than the jobless rate more than 20 percent of the time.

At a briefing with reporters Monday, Kevin Hassett, chairman of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, conceded that Trump's claim was not true.

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That 'advisor' needs to get canned.

For quoting publicly available facts?

Hey wait...maybe it was Kevin Hasset who wrote the op-ed?

Trump's a busy man with the half the world chewing at his ass. He read what he was told. Sabateurs are about. Considering that his every word get's scrutinized, he wouldn't pop off something like that unless he thought it was for real. Personally, I don't give a crap about the discepancy.

I think you forgot the 4-D chess master excuse.

Obama thought there were 57 states.

You're very tiresome.

He's not the only one sitting at the chess table, Fee Fee.

Why would you say Trump's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors is tiresome? He was just setting the record straight by laying out the facts, as opposed to alternative facts.

this. the advisor guy was absolutely elated at the numbers. no reason to hate that guy for doing his job.

trump was just given bad info or exaggerating, which we all know he does. it's not a bad thing. it's about positivity but too many cynical America hating fuckers around for that to work.

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Alternative facts are good.

Note!

"The chief White House economic adviser said he wasn't sure how the error occurred but speculated that an adviser "added a zero."

LOL

And 267 genders.

nobody gives a flying fuck

Beat me to it. Happens everyday, everywhere.

Obama killed thousands of children through war and attempted to destroy whole segments of America's economy and the only thing You hear from the left is crickets.

Oh and lets not forget how He signed the middle classes freedom away and made them permanent slaves to the medical insurance establishment.

Yup & he visited them all.

yes and there is a huge difference between being a Liar (as Trump is accused DAILY) and being (intentionally?) MIS INFORMED by his "advisors"


Barry, on the other hand ... makes up lies and you all simply ignore them ... why is he even on TV ever ... he is a nobody - has been

This is coming from the same people who cryed when President Trump got two scoops of ice cream!!! Hahahahaha, these fuckers are something else. Trump Derangement Syndrome on display here. This man lives in your heads!! Too funny!!!

You probably think Obama is responsible for our economic recovery. .....Tard.

Big fucking deal, no one ever misspoke and said 1 million when it should have been 100k

though not correct, he said 100 years rather than 10 years. is improvement not a good thing now?

he was more correct than you and cnn reporting how he was "dead wrong on the economy" as if it's worse.... but i understand the game you are playing here.

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SO?

MISTAKES HAPPEN, NOT TRUMPS FAULT.

what is you're point?

It's still higher then 10 years

Pretty damn good

Idiot

Just like a liberal, can't understand shit

He said OP is tiresome, constantly posting shit about Trump to try and make h again look bad

Listen. Trump reads what bnb is handed to him, did the person who handed it to him do it on.purpose to make try and make Trump look bad? Maybe, wouldn't doubt it

Do stupid liberals jump on every little thing like its trumps fault? Yes

You must have watch CNN, Don the Lemon

He was trying to be so serious looking right at the camera, saying Tru was p bbn lied, Trump said this bla,bla bla

And then he said that some news paper is keeping tracks of how many times Tru ml p lies or speaks missing Info,lol

I wonder if they did this to Muslim obama?

If they did they probably lost count, as Obama lied everytime he spoke

Probably millions In his 8 years

That's it? This is ALL you've got?

Pathetic, OP. Maybe you'll talk about which hand he wipes with next. People seriously don't care and those who do are burned out with this insane, unnecessary rhetoric.

The funny thing is it proves that Obama was a complete fucking failure and the idiots are to stupid to realize it.

The OP probably goes through a box of baby wipes in a week as He jerks off to CNN on a daily basis.