Well, not exactly. As Fox News (!!) pointed out, this was the 63rd time in the past 70 years.
A bunch of you thought I was kidding when I asked this question before, but I am genuinely curious. Where does he get all the wildly inaccurate information he spews? The President of the U.S. doesn’t have time to research trivia. Does he just make everything up on the spot? Does he have some people feeding him bad info? Do people give him correct info only to have him alter it to suit his wishes? His thought process is fascinating.
The chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett, addressed the error, but you can tell he was just as bewildered as I am:
“You’d have to talk to the president about where the number came from, but the correct number is 10. The history of thought of how errors happen is not something that I can engage in. From the initial fact to what the president said, I don’t know the whole chain of command. What I do know is that’s the highest in (over) 10 years. And, at some point, somebody probably conveyed it to him, adding a zero to that.”
“Somebody” added a zero? Hmmmmm. I wonder who might have done that.