Jake Tapper | Trump Freaks Out About the Possibility of A Recession: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump freaking out about the possibility of a recession.
Then, Seth talks to CNN's Jake Tapper, who also takes a few more questions backstage exclusively for this podcast.
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| 0:21.7 | Despite major Wall Street losses yesterday and global fears of a recession, President |
| 0:26.4 | Trump tweeted today, quote, consumers are in the best shape ever, plenty of cash, business |
| 0:31.2 | optimism, as in an all-time high. And then the mayor from JAWS tweeted, beaches open, |
| 0:36.3 | no sharks inside. |
| 0:37.3 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:46.3 | with Seth Meyers. Today, Seth talks to CNN's Jake Tapper. Tapper also sticks around for |
| 0:50.7 | a few more questions exclusively for this podcast. But first, a closer look. |
| 1:01.3 | President Trump has been freaking out about the possibility of a recession. For more on this, |
| 1:05.8 | it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:11.6 | If there's one thing Trump loves to brag about, it's the stock market. He talks about it constantly |
| 1:15.8 | and by talks about it, I, of course, mean he lies about it because he lies about everything. |
| 1:20.4 | I would say lying for him is his natural is breathing, but he's not great at breathing either. |
| 1:27.4 | In fact, this week, the Washington Post published an exhaustive study that found that as of |
| 1:34.2 | August 5th, Trump is made over 12,000 false or misleading claims as President, which means |
| 1:38.8 | that Trump said something false about once every three hours on average. Once every three |
| 1:43.6 | hours, that means he has to wake up in the middle of the night just so he can get his |
| 1:47.1 | lies in. |
| 1:48.5 | Russia's a witch hunt. |
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