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TAPPER: 2 years ago, Trump said he thought he could get mortgage rates down to 3%. Last week mortgage rates had the biggest weekly jump in 4 years. It's more than 7%. Why has Trump failed to deliver on that promise? HASSETT: President Trump hasn't failed to deliver at all. The economy is booming.

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There are seven people on the Fed board and three are Trump appointees. You could say four if you include Powell being elevated to Fed chair during his first term. In any case, they had recently voted unanimously to raise rates. It’s a massive failure of what was promised.

MAGA needs to double down on “the economy is booming, groceries aren’t more expensive, patriots should be happy to pay more money for gas, and we have won the war in Iran”. Great narrative.

A better question for Jake Tapper might be why Trump isn't doing anything to curb hedge funds from buying up every home that they possibly can. Basically this is the whole problem with housing is the rich buying up all the housing and everybody else has to pay rent

I don’t have the stats to fact check but was the rest of his response *also* lies? I find it very hard to believe all of the metrics aren’t fairly bad. Could have sworn the only “good” housing news was that prices were falling but I thought that was because of ARR hike? Did Tapper just let him lie?

In fact housing starts, permits and completions are all DOWN significantly. That took me 30 seconds to find on Census.Gov. There’s also been lots of news re consumer confidence being lowest in decades. So why didn’t Tapper push back on THOSE lies?

Much as I despise this grinning imbecile, I really don’t have a problem with him going on network TV and continually declaring that “everything is awesome” Lego movie style, when everyone who is watching knows that it absolutely isn’t and that there is a chance to stop the lies by voting next month.

Why does Tapper continue to give these bozos air time? Hes incapable of cross-examination with any skill, and should just start bringing on regular people to describe their lived experiences to losers like Hassett.

Muricans, they're all laughing at you while you suffer. They don't care about 7% mortgages... This Hassett grinning POS held $5M in crypto during Trump's crypto push, got paid 192K by Kushner's investment firm and the same for his WH job. Lutnick, Epstein's buddy, made $250M last year alone!

Asshat: "I'm saying things that are obvious untruths, with a stupid grin on my face, because our supporters are so stupid they keep voting us no matter how much we hurt them. We are making billions out of their idiocy."

The question is why does CNN continue to interview these guys. They know all they’re gonna do is say what Trump wants him to say. How is this interview different than any other interview they’ve ever done with this guy. It’s just a waste of my time but basically that’s what CNN has become.

"On that promise" was the fucking question. Never mind the answer is bullshit, but it would then still be his job to explain how mortgage rates don't matter after all. Jeeebus these people are intellectually insufferable.

I swear everyone in this administration is either a bald faced liar, insane or high. Could be any combination of the previously listed as well.

Why do they bother to invite this puppet? He lies every time. Utterly worthless to ask him questions. Just don't have him or refuse to have him. How hard is this to understand?

Important context here is he's a millionaire. To anyone in that category and above, the economy is on fire in a good way. Lots of opportunities to expand their portfolio and increase earnings. We've been here before multiple times in history and the outcome is always the same.

Doesn’t matter because the “facts” he’s quoting to support that view are all false. Wages aren’t up more than costs. Consumer confidence is lower than it’s been in decades and the new housing numbers are flat or down, not up. Tapper should have called him out on each of those lies but didn’t.

Exactly. They all sound like dear ol' Baghdad Bob. According to the BBC Bob is still alive and lives in Denmark, 85 or 86 years old. We have a vacancy for press secretary and he's certainly a qualified liar. Maybe he should apply.

I know they have to ask and the interviewee is required to lie, but instead of just stating the obvious why doesn’t the interviewer go all in. “You’re a lying liar who lies”

It’s booming for Trump and his oligarchy. That’s why they keep saying it. They are doing a killing here at the expensive of everyone else

Kick that asshole off the air. Every time Tapper asks a question it just gives him an opportunity to spout off lies (which happen to be MAGA talking points), and then Jake moves on instead of being confrontational, pointing out that *talking point* isn’t true, and telling him to answer or leave.

They're just going to lie their way through. This strategy of gaslighting people and telling them that what they're seeing and feeling is unreal is great. They will lose bigly.

Okay, now I understand what's going on. The guy on the left (I think his name is Tapper) is having one conversation & the guy on the right (an idiot from the Trump admin) he's having a separate conversation of his own & they're trying to mash them together to make it a news report, right?😂

Why is anyone in the news media still acting like Hassett has any credibility at all? STOP giving that man a platform to lie his ass off to the American people.