President Trump launched into a rambling series of victory claims Friday ranging from the economy to the coronavirus pandemic to the George Floyd protests to the border wall
“It’s a great day for everybody.” Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Without question, the surprisingly positive May jobs report was a tonic for the troops in Donald Trump’s administration, which has had a really, really bad week. But in a presidency notable for a habit of self-congratulation, today marks a new high that it will be hard for even Trump to exceed.
[T]he president took his promotion of the jobs numbers a step further, describing them as a “tremendous tribute to equality” and, in an extraordinary moment, suggested the data marked a “great day” for George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man whose killing by a Minneapolis police officer has ignited protests across all 50 states.“We all saw what happened last week. We can’t let that happen.
The gloat-fest over the economy, which will almost certainly undermine efforts in Congress for additional stimulus , bled over into dangerously optimistic comments about the coronavirus pandemic. He said the country was “largely through” the pandemic and called for a complete end to state and local “lockdowns” that were inhibiting the economy from being even more sensational.
You have to assume Trump thinks his “transitioning to greatness” reelection message is back on track, as he described his greatest-economy-in-the-history-of-the-planet, interrupted by the “Chinese plague,” quickly roaring back, with the only clouds remaining in the blue skies ahead being Sleepy Joe Biden and his horde of job-killing, lockdown-obsessed, radical-left Democrats.
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