and a half. but what donald trump has done to himself is perhaps the most interesting aspect of this, joe. in the sense that for the last year and a half, all this ehas he has talked about is the past, about things he felt was stolen from him. his election, his re-election was rigged. it was stolen from him. the stolen election. stop the steal. january 6th, everything around january 6th, all of it revolves around donald j. trump. the reality is you have a man in mar-a-lago who has constructed his own world. there is a part of him, certainly, that is realistic enough to know when he listens to a self-appointed candidate, herschel walker, herschel walker is beyond belief dumb. beyond belief. he is a public figure, and he is running for the united states senate from a critical state as a result of donald j. trump.
we re paying with, as you say, more inflation, or as much inflation, a lot from energy. not a great jobs picture. you know, the euro just hit parody with the dollar. the euro is so weak, it s come down to $1 for what s that mean? our economy is much stronger than theirs, basically. foreign currency levels are a bit of a scorecard for how an economy is doing. having your currency back to the same level as the dollar when it was as high as $1.30 or so is not great news for them. look, i was talking about this yesterday to a leading politician, i don t think, in this case, the president, rightly or wrongly, has been able to break through on that message. he s said almost everything you had said. he s said multiple times about our position relative to the rest of the world and how much better we are doing in almost every measure, but it is not getting through. again, i d deter to the more political experts around this table, joe and mika, has to why
democrats should already have nailed down or republicans should already have nailed down that they continue to struggle with. that s absolutely right, joe. as we said, this is going to continue. i mean, this seems to keep getting worse for the republicans at a time when it ought to be getting better. just to jeffrey, i wondered if you or any of your very talented correspondents has an idea of what s going on in trump s head as he watches all this. he is you know, he is not stupid. he sees how herschel walker is doing in georgia and the danger he is in. he sees these candidates that he supported not necessarily doing well in their races. what do you imagine or know he might be thinking? i want to clarify, gene. you re asking me to tell you
media and said, come to washington, et cetera, it is going to be wild. it was an invitation to the rabble to come and do what the rabble then did. it s fairly clear to, well, me at least, that he knew what he was doing and that the people around him knew what they were doing. they needed the energy and chaos that that kind of person would bring, and they got it. so, you know, maybe this is working in the sense that people who are closed off to the idea that january 6th was a coup attempt, maybe they re open to it now. we ve been talking this morning, jeffrey. first of all, thank you is so much for joining morning joe joe s atlantic festival. you have great writers. the editorial in the wall
first of all, let s start out with the good, which is the job news. first, joe, even people who sat in the front row in their economics class, did the homework, listened to the professor instead of checking the sports scores are finding this the most incredibly confusing economy. it is a strangest i ve ever seen. we have good news and bad news. we ll show you strong jobs numbers, some concerns. it is a confusing time. so to start with the jobs side, some little gremlin put the wrong headline on my chart today, but we ll put that aside for the moment. what you can see on the left is that we ve had really strong job growth. in fact, last month, we passed the highest number of private sector jobs that the economy has ever had. fully recovered the private sector and continue to show grows at an extraordinary pace. 3 million new jobs in this year alone. on the right side, you can see