Trump's World Pulses With Promising News
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The media world that revolves around President Trump is a world of promising news, which is to say news that is mostly about promises.
The stories that dominate front pages and lead newscasts are typically about things that might happen, or could happen. And sometimes, these things actually do happen.
Many of these promises are the president's own. On Friday, indubitably good news about 4.1 percent economic growth in the second quarter led the president to promise even better days ahead:
"We're on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years. And I will say this right now, and I'll say it strongly: As the trade deals come in one by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers."
Most economists may be skeptical
