Jimmy Carter might be gone. But thanks to the efforts of MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, “malaise”—the word most associated with Carter’s failed presidency—lives on. But now, of course, slapped on President Trump.
Wallace did her best to recycle the m-word on Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, which she hosts.
Wallace brought on Michele Norris, a former co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered (until her husband joined Obama’s campaign), to doomsday prophesy that President Trump’s economic moves would lead to “manufacturing slowdowns,” and then “we start to get something called malaise in the economy.”
Not only that, even if tariffs are reversed, Norris predicted “the malaise that has settled in around the chaos and the uncertainty in the economy is going to linger like a hangover, like a bad hangover for a very long time.”
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