While the leftist media scramble to retain whatever illusory credibility they think they have over their eroding predictions of a Trumpian economic disaster, CNN tour de force Scott Jennings took to ABC’s This Week to list off some of the president’s W’s.
Jennings told ABC co-anchor and anti-Trump fanatic Jonathan Karl December 28, “Look at GDP growth. Look at the stock market. Inflation is coming down. Growth is going up.” He also pointed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s estimation that “we're going to have a boom in 2026 because of the long-term reengineering of the U.S. economy they have employed on the back of tariffs.”
Karl attempted to get Jennings to make Trump out to be a whiny child if the Supreme Court ultimately decides that his reciprocal tariffs were unconstitutional. But Jennings came with receipts: “The President would tell you it's not just an economic tool. It's a diplomatic tool. He thinks a lot of the conflicts that he's solved this year -- which he's very proud of -- some of it, maybe more than half of them, were because he had the power to threaten these people with tariffs.”
.@ScottJenningsKY to ABC's @JonKarl on tariffs: "Well, as you'll read in my book 'A Revolution of Common Sense'...he will be apoplectic because he believes that the tariff strategy is working. Look at GDP growth. Look at the stock market. Inflation is coming down. Growth is going… pic.twitter.com/0QLZChemzo
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 28, 2025
Jennings and the Trump administration are not the only ones optimistic about the near-future U.S. economy because of the president’s agenda. Anti-trump publication Forbes magazine wrote in a December 28 story headlined, “Strong GDP And Rising Profits Set Up A Resilient US Economy For 2026,” that “Despite low consumer confidence, a softening labor market, and tariffs, the US economy has been shockingly resilient in 2025 and should enter 2026 with reasonable momentum.”
But that’s not all. Banking giant Goldman Sachs now projects that the U.S. economy will grow “at a faster rate in 2026 with the firm forecasting 2.6% real GDP growth, above the Bloomberg consensus of 2%,” according to Fox Business. “The tax cuts and reforms included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are” one of the primary factors “expected to drive faster economic growth in 2026.” Go figure.
All of these changes in perspectives came on the heels of U.S. GDP growth blowing away expectations in the 3rd quarter with a 4.3 percent growth rate, further solidifying that much of the media recession scare-mongering over Trump supposedly steering the U.S. over the financial cliff was a load of malarkey. The stock market has also been hovering around record highs the past few days as well.
What does all of this mean? Well, it’s very simple actually. No one should ever take the media’s economic coverage on Trump’s policies seriously ever again.
