Historically, Presidents of the United States have been at least loosely tethered to reality. Sure, many of them have suppressed important information, massaged statistics, or just plain lied outright, but despite this, they’ve broadly lived in the same world as the rest of us.
Donald Trump is smashing that record, apparently hellbent on forging his own exciting new financial reality that bears zero resemblance to what’s actually happening in the world. For example, yesterday, he bloviated about the amount of investment his government has taken in the country just halfway through the first year of his term.
