Economics

• asked his top economic adviser to “print money” to lower US debt?
• claimed that the economic damage from shutting down the country would be more deadly than COVID-19?
• invoked George Floyd’s name over jobs numbers?
• removed 1 million children from a food stamps program with free school lunches?
• said he could pay off the United States’ $19 trillion in debt in 8 years?
• said that America’s GDP “was below zero”?
• said that the US will never default on its debt because “you print the money”?
• said the economy does better under Democrat leadership?
• said the United States should replace the dollar with gold as the global currency?
• said, “it’s not like we have a massive recession or worse” during a pandemic and record unemployment?
• tweeted that the US had added 303,000 new jobs when the reported figure was 128,000?
• wanted the Republican tax bill to be called the “Cut Cut Cut Act”?
• was described by his top economic adviser as “an idiot surrounded by clowns” that is “less a person than a collection of terrible traits”?
• wrongly claimed that unemployment was as high as 42% instead of the official 5.1%?