Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, made an incredible reach in an attempt to justify a debunked claim about the Trump administration reducing the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner.
Hassett, director of the National Economic Council and the man reportedly tapped to be Trump’s next chair of the Federal Reserve, appeared on Fox News on Tuesday in an attempt to paint a rosy economic picture ahead of the holiday season.
After hailing the “golden age” created by Trump, a claim that even Vice President JD Vance appears reluctant to get behind, Hassett took issue with an unnamed Sunday politics show anchor who “criticized the fact that Walmart said Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by, I think it was about $10, for a typical Thanksgiving dinner.”
“And then he said, ‘Oh, yes, but they substituted generic stuff,’ as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks. It shows how out of touch these people are,” Hassett continued. (Watch a video clip at the bottom of the story.)
Hassett, a scholar of fiscal policy before joining the Trump White House, seems to be willfully missing the point and ignoring the fact that the “cheaper” dinner suggestion is not based on a like-for-like comparison.
