Wallace to Trump Economic Advisor: Why Should We Believe Jobs Numbers Trump Used to Dismiss?

[DonViejo]

by Josh Feldman | 9:49 am, March 12th, 2017

On Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace asked White House Chief Economic Advisor Gary Cohn about President Trump‘s past dismissals of jobs numbers.

The White House touted the numbers out this past Friday, but as Wallace pointed out, during the campaign Trump called similar reports “phony.” Sean Spicer quoted Trump as explaining, “They may have been phony in the past, but they are very real now.”

Wallace played video of Trump dismissing the “phony” numbers and asked Cohn, “If that’s true, why should we believe these numbers? And the fact is, did you inherit an economy that has been for the last 18 months somewhere between 4.6 and 5 percent unemployment?”

Cohn touted how the economy is continuing to grow and said that there are CEOs telling Trump, “We are creating these jobs because [of] you, Mr. President, and your policies.”

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wallace-to-trump-economic-advisor-why-should-we-believe-jobs-numbers-trump-used-to-dismiss/

video of interview at link, above.

[uponit7771]

1. But of course Bush's fucked up economy was Obama's the second Obama took the oath. This is the

... courage the M$M will need to have; to continue to call Benedict Donald on his economic bullshit and made up facts

[dalton99a]

2. It's real only if Trump likes it.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Give it time

These are Obana's numbers now, when the numbers go South Trumo will go back to saying they are fake.

[Cosmocat]

5. YEP

nm

[Cicada]

4. Because the surge in employment will eliminate deficit, if true

Trump said true unemployment was at least 25% under Obamacare, but now is 4.5%. That 27% increase in the number employed means payroll tax receipts will rise roughly $200 billion per year and federal income tax paid to the Treasury will go up even more. The federal deficit for fiscal year ending Sept 30 2017 is projected at about $440 billion. With the increased tax revenue from the 27% hike in "true" employment the deficit will be basically eliminated. So when that happens we will know the Trumpsters are truth tellers.

[chelsea0011]

6. I doubt any CEO has contacted trump to say they created all those jobs

in January because of him. Another bold-faced, BS, pulled from their arse LIE.

[gratuitous]

7. I doubt it, as well

Why can't these millionaire on-air personalities - just once - ask "Who?" when this nonsense pours forth? Who are these purported CEOs? When did they contact President Trump, who seems to be a hard man for the media to get a hold of?