(Delaying ceremony for Purple Heart recipients) President Trump promoted his own version of reality in the Oval Office
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Still Fuming Over a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Finds Some Numbers He Likes
Reporters were already gathered nearby for an event honoring Purple Heart recipients that was supposed to start any minute. But that event would have to wait. The president wanted the media to see these charts first.
Enter Mr. Moore.
He picked up his favorite of the charts, the one that showed income on the rise.
He held it up in front of his chest and turned to the photographers, so they could take his picture with the latest, more flattering figures.
“This chart is pretty amazing, right here,” he said. “All new numbers.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-new-economic-numbers.html
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3 days ago - Stephen Moore
Former Trump advisor criticizes Trump’s timing on ousting America’s data czar: ‘Like firing the referee’
https://fortune.com/2025/08/05/former-trump-advisor-stephen-moore-criticizes-erika-mcentarfer-ousting-timing-bureau-labor-statistics/
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He thinks that he can fire the person who produced the report and then convince us that the person is incompetent. Then he makes up numbers he likes better, like the drug costs that he "cut" of 1,000%, and he orders up convincing charts to back himself on TV, like it's believable. He's like a toddler with magical thinking. I think he has imaginary friends, too.
And he thinks that we're all amateurs. All this has to be only for MAGA Nation, because the rest of us believe the experienced professional that he just shit canned. Orange Pedo doesn't want us to know that his bizarro, self indulgent, self invented economic theories are destroying our country. He's creating a Depression, and he's going to try to point the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate at anyone else he can find to blame.
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