WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump tells it, never-before-seen things are happening with stunning regularity

The United States is going to build a new missile defense system “the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before.”

His aggressive use of the military in Washington has reduced crime to “numbers that we haven’t seen here ever.”

And when it comes to economic growth under his leadership, “we’ve never seen anything like it.”

It’s the president’s favorite form of hyperbole, whether he’s talking about something he likes or dislikes. Nothing is ever getting little bit better or a little bit worse — it’s always so good or so bad that it’s never before been recorded in the annals of human history.

The phrase, which Trump is using with increasing frequency, is not just a rhetorica

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