"I don't know the whole chain of command," Hassett offered, "but what is true is that it's the highest in 10 years. And at some point, somebody probably conveyed it to him, adding a zero to that, and they shouldn't have done that." About those numbersThe first two numbers are correct, although they measure completely different things, and in different ways. "It's definitely better when it's true than when it's not," said Justin Wolfers, professor of economics at University of Michigan. But Trump got it wrong — way wrong — when he said it hasn't happened in a century.

Source: CNN September 10, 2018 18:00 UTC