President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “they’re” finding money “they” never knew existed ― and it’s all on “the tariff shelf.” (Watch the video below.)
The president’s resurrection of his dubious claim brought out the Grinch in his critics, who found no holiday magic in his mysterious place for amassing the nation’s wealth.
At the White House on Wednesday, Trump digressed into what HuffPost has previously described as his “heroic myth.”
“The money coming in, they’re finding money in our country now that they never knew existed,” the president declared.
“The other day, $30 billion,” he continued, perhaps forgetting that he used a similar amount in other time periods with the same story. “Where did it come from? I said, ’Why don’t you check the tariff shelf?’ They said, ’Sir, that tariff hasn’t started yet. It doesn’t start until January.’ I said, ’No, it started two months ago.’ They call back, ’Sir, you’re right. It was from tariffs.’ Now, we have a whole different country.”
One official has previously characterized Trump’s tariff tale as a “metaphor.”
Critics are seeing it as nonsense. Check out the comments below: