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Now That He's President, Trump Is Sounding More Positive About The Economy

As a candidate, Donald Trump described the economy as something of an unmitigated disaster. Now, he says, "prosperity is coming back to our shores." Is that really true?
Speaking to a crowd in Huntington, W.Va., on Thursday, President Trump said the U.S. economy is on the way back. / Justin Merriman / Getty Images

When Donald Trump was running for president last year, he never failed to portray the U.S. economy in the direst terms, with sky-high jobless rates, an anemic manufacturing sector and huge trade deficits as far as the eye could see.

"Look, our country is stagnant. We've lost our jobs. We've lost our businesses. We're not making things anymore, relatively speaking," he said during one of the presidential

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