MSNBC’s Velshi and Ruhle Blast Trump for Touting Rise in GDP

EXCERPT:

VELSHI: "We’re going to talk to Peter Alexander about that in a second, but that stuff that President Trump just came back to say, we need to put this to rest. He’s been saying this all the time. If anybody who has anything to do with President Trump watches this, please send him this message, this 2.6 economic growth is for one quarter. You can spike growth for a quarter all sorts of times. In fact, you know how many times during President Obama's eight years growth was 2.6 percent or higher? 14 quarters. 14 quarters."
RUHLE: "One more time, say it again."
VELSHI: "14 times during president Obama’s Administration growth was 2.6 percent or higher. Eight times it was 3 percent or higher. So Donald Trump just has to get off of this GDP kick. It is just nonsensical and it is disingenuous. I don’t know how many different ways I can say this."