Trump Insists the Economy Is Strong

President Trump said the U.S. economy is strong and insisted polls showing Americans are feeling economic pain are “fake” during an interview, ABC News reports.

Trump said bad news about the economy amounted to a “con job by the Democrats,” adding Democrats “feed” major news network anchors with the message the economy is bad and then “every anchor” does “exactly what they say.”

He added: “I’ll never forget, they used a word like ‘manufactured.’ You remember the word ‘manufacture’? It’s a ‘manufactured’ economy. Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in ‘manufactured.’ They do exactly what they say. It’s such a rigged system.”