Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Tuesday morning after Trump dozed his way through a crap-show photo op and his biggest fan dropped the dreaded “I”-word. Grab some coffee or tea and let’s go!
Steeling a Nap: Trump held a photo op on Monday to celebrate the construction of a $15 billion dollar steel plant that he credited to the tariff policies that have cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Make it make sense!
But true to form, Trump had trouble staying awake at his own party.
Trump even had the nerve to invoke the nickname “Sleepy Joe Biden” between naps.
Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: But as usual, things were even worse when Trump was awake. Here he is cutting a perfect midterm ad for Democrats by declaring his economy the quote “best we’ve ever had.”
The project is expected to create up to 6,000 new construction jobs, nearly 2,000 manufacturing or mining jobs, and add another $95 billion to the U.S. economy, which is the number one economy in the world by far. We have the best economy we’ve ever had.
Here Comes The Bribe: And Trump repeated his desperate lie about bribing Americans to vote for Republicans with a $5,000 dollar check that will never come.
Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult, and we can do it and the Democrats can’t because the Democrats don’t have any income and they’re going to drive us into a depression. They won’t have any money. But we have the exact opposite.
Fact-check: Americans paid those tariffs, and the refunds are already going to corporations, not the people you ripped off with this scheme.
D’oh Canada: Trump assailed our former ally Canada, and spun a fantasy about our Northern neighbors apologizing and giving him quote “everything.”
REPORTER: So, Mr. President, how does this end?
DONALD TRUMP: I think what’s going to happen is over the next three or four weeks, they’re going to come to us and they’re going to say, “We’re going to get rid of all the tariffs.” We’re going to win everything. We even have Lake Ontario. It’s now Lake America. And that’s been done, by the way. Actually just got done. They told me it was just completed. But they’re going to come in, and they’re going to say, “Sir, we are sorry.”
Sure, Jan!
Xi-Shine Boy: And in true Trump fashion, he gushed about his dictator pal President Xi, calling their meeting a quote “twelve.”
By the way, we had a great meeting with President Xi. I would rate it on the scale of zero to 10, I would rate it a 12. Very respectful. Very good. Great meeting.
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