The column is about what you'd expect given the source, including comparing Trump to NCAA basketball coaching legend John Wooden in the lead. To prove that Trump is on-par with Wooden, Cortes deploys a series of statistics and arguments that Trump himself would be proud of. “The unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent, falling under 4 percent for the first time since 2000. The unemployment rate has actually continued its trend from Obama's second term, if improving slightly from Obama's final year in office. Instead he's arguing that Obama's numbers were effectively cooked — that Obama's unemployment rate dropped because people were dropping out of the workforce and were considered not looking for work rather than unemployed.

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2018 22:07 UTC