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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<\/em> to discuss the president\u2019s speech, and more.<\/p>\n Although \u201cDonald Trump is actually great at willing his own reality,\u201d Atlantic<\/em> staff writer Ashley Parker argued last night, the president is realizing \u201cthat you cannot will an economic reality into existence.\u201d<\/p>\n Regardless of what the president may suggest about the economy, \u201ceverybody gets a paycheck or, worse, doesn\u2019t get a pay check,\u201d Parker added. It doesn\u2019t matter how Trump \u201cscreams it or how much he says it, this is one of the few areas where reality collides with that often quite effective rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic<\/em>, 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<\/em> News<\/em>; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic; and Parker, a staff writer at The Atlantic. <\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s speech, and more. Although \u201cDonald Trump is actually great at willing his own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1671,2921,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-38484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-atlantic","9":"tag-reality","10":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}