During a speech to the nation earlier this week, Donald Trump spoke about the state of the US economy and tried to claim that consumer prices have fallen under his administration. Join the committee members Washington Week with the Atlantic To discuss the President’s speech, and more.
Although “Donald Trump is actually great at embodying his own reality,” Atlantic The president realizes “you can’t want economic reality to exist,” writer Ashley Parker said last night.
Parker added that no matter what the president might propose about the economy, “everyone is getting a paycheck, or worse, not getting a paycheck.” No matter how much Trump shouts it or how much he says it, this is one of the few areas where reality and this often effective rhetoric collide.
Join the editor-in-chief AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Zolan Kanu-Young, White House correspondent at New York Times; Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent ABC news; Franklin Foer, staff writer Atlantic; Parker, staff writer Atlantic.
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