Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“When I was growing up in Chicago, a local AM radio station had a disc jockey named Larry Lujack. The introduction to his show called him ‘a legend in his own mind.’ This keeps coming to mind with Trump’s boasting about things, big and small. The difference is that Lujack was being sarcastic. If we can get past Trump’s boasting about ending wars that didn’t exist, or he had no involvement with, we have the story of the Trump boom. As Trump tells it, the US economy is the envy of the world. He heard it from no less of an authority than the king of Saudi Arabia himself. As Trump tells it, we have $17 trillion coming into the country. No one other than Trump seems to have any idea what he is talking about. That would be four full years’ worth of non-residential investment for reality fans.” (10/20/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/the-trump-boom-a-legend-in-his-own-mind/