Sean Hannity says he discounted Trump’s stock market performance. He did — when it fell – By Matt Gertz (Media Matters) / Jan 26, 2024
Hannity touted the stock market under Trump and discounts it under Biden. His excuse for that doesn’t add up either.
Fox News host Sean Hannity doesn’t think the stock market is a good “barometer” for the U.S. economy — at least, when its performance makes President Joe Biden look good or Donald Trump look bad.
Hannity said last week that Biden “can’t point to any success that is remarkable that would warrant another four years in office,” dismissing the S&P 500’s January 19 record high as inconsequential for most Americans. But as Media Matters reported Monday, the Fox host regularly celebrated stock market highs during Trump’s presidency as one of his greatest “accomplishments.” Hannity, apparently irked by our pointing out his hypocrisy, responded yesterday on his radio show by arguing that he was always careful to include caveats in his commentary about such records during the Trump administration.
“They can throw numbers at people all day long,” Hannity said. “You know, somebody actually — James sent me a thing. ‘Hannity, you did tout the Trump stock market when it broke a record.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I did.’ But, I also had the same caveat I have now. It’s not my biggest barometer about how people in this country are doing. It never has been.”
This is a flagrant lie.
