During an address to the nation earlier this week, Donald Trump spoke about the state of the American economy, and attempted to claim that consumer prices have fallen under his administration. Panelists joined Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the president’s speech, and more.
Although “Donald Trump is actually great at willing his own reality,” Atlantic staff writer Ashley Parker argued last night, the president is realizing “that you cannot will an economic reality into existence.”
Regardless of what the president may suggest about the economy, “everybody gets a paycheck or, worse, doesn’t get a pay check,” Parker added. It doesn’t matter how Trump “screams it or how much he says it, this is one of the few areas where reality collides with that often quite effective rhetoric.”
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent at The New York Times; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic; and Parker, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Watch the full episode here.
