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    After a Good Jobs Report, Trump Now Believes Economic Data

    “It’s very real.”
    by Bourree Lam Mar 10, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    If it looks like President Donald Trump’s portrayal of the American economy is getting less dismal—even as the major economic indicators remain fairly constant—that’s because it is.

    During his presidential campaign, Trump attacked the Labor Department’s official estimates of the number of jobs added each month as He said that Americans were living in a and repeatedly said that he. (It is .) Even after Trump won the election, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, at his confirmation hearing in January, saying, “The unemployment rate is not real.”

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