Media slams GDP boom: ‘Don’t buy it,’ ‘blip,’ ‘too big’

Published July 27, 2018 12:55pm ET



The media Friday went into overdrive to downplay the 4.1 percent surge in economic growth, calling it a blip not even worth writing about.

Even before President Trump could officially herald the big bump in the economy, as shown in the second quarter growth domestic product growth, the biggest liberal media outlets were urging Americans to consider it fake news.

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