California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit back at Donald Trump’s latest price-drop brag with a meme claiming he had “made it up.”
The 79-year-old president had just told an audience that “energy prices are down, gasoline prices are down, grocery prices are down [and] mortgage rates are down.”
“In nine months, we’ve lifted over 600,000 Americans off food stamps,” he added.
During the speech, made in South Korea as part of the president’s tour of Asia, Trump also said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be gone “in another couple of months.”
After the clip of Trump’s unlikely economic boast was posted on social media, Newsom’s press office reposted it from its official account, with a popular meme featuring Dr. Manhattan.
In it, the fictional DC Comics character is asked “Source?” to

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