MSNBC Panel: ‘Wages Adjusted for Inflation Are Actually Worse Under’ Trump Than Under Obama

‘So you had faster growth in wages after adjusting for inflation under Obama than you had under Trump’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Okay. So that’s a lie as well. Wages adjusted for inflation are actually worse under Donald Trump than they were under Barack Obama. Again, not a surprise. Just a surprise that the media keeps letting Donald Trump get away with this lie, as they have for the past several years. It’s just lazy. They listen to what Donald Trump says, 'Oh, yeah, wages are going...' — no. No. And, you know, look at GDP, if you will, because that’s — I mean, you look at our economic growth, that tells us not just how the richest of the rich are doing on Wall Street; that tells us how everybody is doing. So give us the story on GDP."

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