CNN host Jake Tapper hit President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising economy brag with a brutal reality check.
On Tuesday, Trump, 79, told Politico’s Dasha Burns that he would give himself a modest “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” in how he has dealt with the economy.
When pressed, he leaned on an old excuse. “I inherited a mess,” he said. “Prices were at an all-time high when I came in. Prices are coming down substantially,” he claimed, despite the facts showing a different picture.
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