The White House admitted today that a tweet by President Trump about an economic benchmark being the best in a century was wildly off the mark.
That’s just not true. It’s not even close.
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Kevin Hassett owned up to the the presidential error at a White House press briefing.
“The history of thought of how errors happen is not something that, you know, I can engage in, because like from the initial fact to what the president said, that I don’t know the whole chain of command,” Hassett said. “But what is true is that it’s the highest in ten years.”
So Trump’s tweet was only 90 years off.
Hassett said he did not know the “chain of command” of how the false information got into Trump’s hands.
“At some point, somebody probably conveyed it to him, adding a zero to that and they shouldn’t have done that,” Hassett said.
Then he brought up another recent glaring error, when Press Secretary Sarah Sanders inaccurately claimed Trump had achieved more gains in African American employment than President Obama had in eight years.
The Council of Economic Advisors apologized online and took the blame.
Hassett added today: “You might have noticed they gave Sarah a bad number a few weeks ago, it was 100 percent my fault and I apologized immediately. We created it.”