Donald Trump’s vision of America’s economic “nightmare” was ruined by a timely ticker on Fox News on Thursday.
But while he warned that the country was facing a major economic crisis like that of 1929, a graphic from Fox News quickly undermined his argument.
As conservative news channels broadcast the former president’s rambling speech, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared in the lower right corner of the screen, showing the market up 554.67 points, or 1.4%, that day.
President Trump’s questionable stock market warning at a press conference was the only outrageous moment.
He made the mathematically impossible claim that “virtually more than 100 percent” of last year’s net job gains “went to immigrants.”
He also raged against windmills, one of his most over-the-top enemies, and said Harris had “very strong communist leanings.”
Props flanking his podium included grocery staples and a little blue dollhouse, but during his 80-minute-plus speech, the candidate veered beyond his claims of food inflation to more controversial topics like immigration, the 2020 election and personal attacks on Harris.
