When Data met Donald – and died: How US Prez trumped India with fake tariff numbers

The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump has long treated numbers the way a toddler treats Lego blocks: useful, colorful, and fungible – depending on the story he wants to weave. The latest example comes from "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, which portrays a White House where official statistics sometimes have the life expectancy of a snowflake in a microwave, particularly if they happened to contradict the President's imagination.

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