{"id":4173,"date":"2026-07-30T23:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:08:03","slug":"anchor-flattens-top-trump-economists-claims-about-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Anchor flattens top Trump economist\u2019s claims about Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CNN Anchor Pamela Brown was on a roll Thursday, taking a rare opportunity to correct President Donald Trump\u2019s director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett to his face on several falsities \u2014 eventually grinding Hassett down to an empty denial of facts.<\/p>\n

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Hassett began his defense of the Trump economy claiming that Americans have experienced \u201creal income growth of about $3,000 per family since Trump took office,\u201d as well asan \u201cincredible investment boom because of artificial intelligence and other things.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, if you dig down deep into the numbers, one of the things you can see is that final domestic demand, which is sort of the amount of stuff that actually was purchased in the U.S., was up a really healthy 3.9 percent or about 4 percent,\u201d Hassett said.<\/p>\n

Brown accused him of \u201cthrowing around \u2026 so many numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when you talk to the everyday American, they will tell you that prices at the grocery store are up, mortgage rates are higher,\u201d Brown pointed out. \u201cYou have the high gas prices at the gas pump. And so yes, it is true that, um, there is income growth, but then at the same time, Americans out there are saying that they’re hurting. Is the White House in touch with what the everyday American is feeling right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, absolutely,\u201d insisted Hassett, while making an attempt to shift the argument to former President Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cReal incomes have grown about $3,000 in President Trump’s first couple of years. They declined that much over four years under President Biden. And so people are seeing their wages go up more than prices. \u2026 <\/u>like we saw in Q2, is a sign that consumers are optimistic about what’s going on, on average.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brown didn\u2019t accept that: \u201cYou said just a moment ago, Kevin, that consumers are optimistic. But we have this poll where 77 percent of Americans say economic conditions are overall poor. That is the lowest of Trump’s second term so far. Is this the, \u2018amazing economy\u2019 the administration thought you’d all be boasting about when the \u2018Big, Beautiful Bill\u2019 was passed more than a year ago?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, again, right now the economy does look amazing to me,\u201d Hassett insisted, citing inflation \u201cgoing down and the unemployment rate is low.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou say the economy looks amazing [but] job growth cooled last month and 66 percent of people \u2014 these everyday Americans \u2014 they say President Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in this country,\u201d Brown corrected. \u201cThat’s 10 percent more than in the final months of the Biden administration. So, I mean, you say the economy looks amazing, but what do you say to that person who’s part of that group, that 66 percent who say Trump has actually made the economic conditions are worse?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I just don’t believe a poll like that,\u201d Hassett said, surrendering the facts. \u201c[Especially] given how strong the numbers are and how strong income growth is, how optimistic people are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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