"Laura Ingraham's interview with Donald Trump, which aired on Monday night, was a little unusual for her. When the Fox News host interviewed the president last spring, she fawned over his gaudy Oval Office renovations and simply nodded as he claimed you can't make a gold paint. This time, she actually pushed back on a few points, such as his claim that "costs are way down" and Americans' concerns about the economy are some kind of Democratic conspiracy."
""You know they put out something, 'say today, costs are up.' They feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS, NBC, and a lot of other, you know, CNN, etc. And it's like a standard. I'll never forget, they used a word like 'manufactured.' Remember the word 'manufactured'? 'It's a manufactured economy!' Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in, 'manufactured.' They do exactly what they say. It's such a rigged system.""
"On Trump's end, the interview was full of all his usual nonsense, like calling Chuck Schumer a Palestinian and claiming he's going to replace Obamacare with some hazy alternative he can't really describe. But quite a few moments stood out for their terrifying absurdity. Sure, a decade into this thing, we all know Trump says some bizarre stuff. But it's still chilling to hear the man with the nuclear codes confidently declare that "nobody knows what a magnet is" on national television."
The interview featured pushback from the host on claims that costs are falling and that economic concerns are a Democratic media conspiracy. The president repeated misleading and bizarre statements, including misidentifying political figures and promising to replace Obamacare with an undefined alternative. He advanced a narrative that Democrats coordinate negative talking points across major networks, citing the supposed use of the word 'manufactured' as evidence. The president also made factually absurd claims and displayed a cavalier confidence about scientific ignorance by asserting that "nobody knows what a magnet is." The exchange mixed rare challenge with striking misinformation.
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