he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
give preference those indicators over fake numbers like gdp, unemployment, inflation, no, certainly that s a very good point, tucker. i butnf we also have literally mountains of data for months now that have beenn pointing toh a recession and the white house and frankly, many of the commentators on tv have just blatantly ignored the data day after day tda after day.ag and again, the middle class,ai i is very evident that they have been getting absolutely crushed. if you look at average incomes ,for example, average earnings since biden took office areff down the annual equivalent of thirty four hundred dollars per person because of inflation. thatth is just devastating. that s more than some people spend on food in a year. that s just that s unbelievable. wouldn t it be and i m i know you re an economist. ask you a question, but very quickly, wouldn t it be smarter for the white house to say, look, we know how bad it is andd we re doing everything we can to help you? why do they persis