The White House tried to make MAGAnomics a thing. It went as well as you’d expect.
We can't actually see or hear what's happening at the White House press briefings these days in real time, but at least we now know why the sessions are held off camera.
Thursday's briefing included a section on "MAGAnomics." With graphics. For real. Not a joke.
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Based on tweets from the press briefing, and the above op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, it looks like budget director Mick Mulvaney showed his bulletproof economic plan for achieving 3 percent economic growth, a projection for which the most popular description is "fantasy."
He's calling it MAGAnomics. Because people like acronyms. And Reagan. And things that are great. Or something.
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Naturally, what was meant to be a serious presentation quickly turned into a Photoshop joke.
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We can only imagine what could've been if the cameras had been on and rolling.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
