President Trump celebrates his birthday with historically good economy. We talk over President

Trump's comments about Kim Jong-un plus. The Department of Justice, Inspector General report on

James Comey is breaking, and we'll talk about it. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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Trump's birthday. Today's President Trump's birthday. And President Trump is 72 years old today, which is pretty amazing. I mean, the guy is

the oldest president ever elected. And he is fit as a fiddle and ready for love. I mean, President

Trump is obviously an energetic dude. And he's celebrating a good birthday. I mean, let's be real

about this. The President of the United States is having himself an upswing in the polls, and there are a lot of elements where the president

looks really good. So this is a great story for him today. The Federal Reserve just raised its

outlook on U.S. economic growth on Wednesday. The median real GDP forecast rose to 2.8%,

up from 2.7% for this year. There are no changes for 2019 and 2020.

Economic activity has been rising at a solid rate according to the Fed's statement, marking an

upgrade from moderate in the previous statement. Also, there is a report out today, put out by

Jim Pethakukas, all about how there are banks that were now revising the growth estimates for

the last quarter

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