GDP Down Huge, Lets Tweet about Delaying the Election...

This morning the US 2nd quarter GDP data which was expected to be bad was released.  It was in fact bad, 9.5% decline for the quarter or about a 33% decline on an annualized basis.  Within minutes the Potus tweeted about "delaying the election".  This is yet another example of Trump's classic strategy to own the news cycle.  In this case to distract from the economic hole engendered by the Covid abetted by his horrible policy responses.  Do not fall for it.

Professor George Lakoff has outlined for years how Trump attempts (and frequently succeeds) in manipulating public attention.  I have said to friends over the past four years, Trump is many things mostly bad but one thing he is for sure is a PR guru, a carnival barker on the level of PT Barnum.  One prescription Lakoff offers is to avoid repeating Trump's messages (i.e. tweets) as doing so plays into his hands for blasting out his message.  So one will never find me grabbing his tweets regardless of how sulfuric they might be.