Talking Points Memo reports:
It has been 19 days since the last time Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took reporters’ questions for the “daily” White House press briefing, as an ABC reporter noted. According to an ABC report, Sanders spent a combined three hours and 58 minutes behind the podium during 13 appearances for the entirety of June, July and August.
The Daily Beast reports:
In what now seems like a daily occurrence, President Trump woke up Monday morning and fired off 16 bizarre tweets, including: seven retweets of supporters; four posts about Bob Woodward’s new book on White House chaos; and several misleading or false claims about the economy—one of which was so patently false even Fox News was forced to publicly correct the president.
Since 1948, there have been 63 quarters with a GDP growth rate higher than avg quarterly unemployment rate
Recent Quarters with GDP Growth higher than Unemployment Rate:
•Q2 2018
•Q1 2006
•Q3 2003
•Q2 2000
•Q4 1999
•Q3 1999
•Q4 1998
•Q3 1998
•Q3 1997
•Q2 1997
•Q2 1996 https://t.co/xc873PMf6K— Fox News Research (@FoxNewsResearch) September 10, 2018