Varrney: Media’s Not Covering Economic Growth Because They Don’t Want to See a Success Story for Trump

‘The mainstream media not really covering it’

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DOOCY: "It was one of the president's biggest campaign promises about a year ago."
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TRUMP: "We’re going to make our country rich again." (...)
"We’ll make America rich again." (...) 
"Make America rich again." (...) 
"We’re going to make America rich again."
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HUNTSMAN: "Well, since the election he has helped do just that."
KILMEADE: "Stuart Varney is here, host of Varney & Company get set to take the reins from 9 until noon."
VARNEY: "Yeah."
KILMEADE: "Stuart, no one talked about the trade deficit going down. No one talked about how the market reacted to the budget on truck to get passed let alone a tax plan that was finally framed out." 
VARNEY: "I’m going to give you a number, a huge number; $5,121,780,000,000, that’s how much America’s wealth has gone up since the election of Donald Trump November 8th, 2016. That is a phenomenal stock market rally --"
DOOCY: "Sure."
VARNEY: "-- and extraordinary growth rate for our nation’s wealth."
HUNTSMAN: "Why is that, Stu?" 
VARNEY: "Well, the election of Donald Trump opened up the promise of growth in the economy. He's going to have a tax cut plan, that should boost the economy. We should get to maybe 3, 4 percent growth. We’re already at 3 percent. If we get better than that, that’s what the market's hoping for. Profits go up, jobs go up, wages go up. The stock market goes to the moon."
DOOCY: "What a great story for the president. But you know, the mainstream media not really covering it, and I think the president is frustrated. Because yesterday about this time he tweeted this out: 'Stock market hits an ALL-TIME high! Unemployment lowest in 16 years! Business and manufacturing enthusiasm at highest level in decades!'" 
VARNEY: "The media is not covering this. They don’t want to see a success story for Mr. Trump."
DOOCY: "Well they didn’t think he was going to win." 
VARNEY: "No. And this is a success story. Before the election the pundits were saying if he wins the markets goes down. The very day he won it started to go up. And now have you've got an extra $5 trillion worth of wealth in our economy. Nobody saw this coming. And now that it is here, the media does not want to report it."

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