After a six-month respite, the Associated Press has started aggressively going after Donald Trump and his administration over conditions in the U.S. economy.
In an opening salvo at 1:25 p.m. on Tuesday, the AP criticized as “not completely accurate” the following completely accurate Trump tweet: “Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising.”
The AP would have been far better off merely noting that Trump should have said that wages are “rising” instead of “raising.” Otherwise, the wire service has no genuine complaint.
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