Trump boasts that the U.S. has ‘the greatest economy actually ever.’ Human nature suggests that’s exactly the wrong message to send to voters
“I inherited a mess,” President Trump told an audience of supporters in Georgia last Thursday, referring to the U.S. economy. The Democrats “caused the affordability problem, and we’ve solved it!” he bragged. Two days earlier on Fox Business he had proclaimed an even grander achievement: “I think we have the greatest economy actually ever in history.”
When a president talks like that 37 weeks before the mid-term elections, it means one thing: The economy is the No. 1 issue, and it’s a...