Maggie Haberman Roasts Trump Social Media Platform After Stock Market Rant: ‘Don’t Know How Much Is Getting Through to People’

Truth Social caught a stray when New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that former President Donald Trump’s rant taking credit for President Joe Biden’s stock market might not find much of an audience.

Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to blurt out an all-caps claim that the record stock market performance is his doing:

THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MAR KET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP — EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, Blitzer asked about the claim, and Haberman called out Trump’s lack of consistency on the issue. She also hit Truth Social’s flagging traffic with a stray elbow along the way, telling Blitzer “I don’t know how much is getting through to people, through that website, through Truth Social”:

BLITZER: Maggie, I want to get your reaction to something Trump posted earlier today. Let me put it up on the screen. This is the Trump stock market because my polls against Biden are so good that investors are projecting that I will win, and that will drive the market up. But earlier this month, as you know, Trump said he hoped and predicted the economy would crash. So, what’s going on here?

HABERMAN: Well, what’s going on is a couple of things, but one is that consistency is not exactly ever been one of his calling cards. The other is that the stock market literally was something he treated as if it was a pull of his own performance when he was in office.

If the economy is doing better, if metrics that people use to judge their lives and how things are going are better, that is widely seen as benefiting President Biden. And so it’s not surprising that Trump is going to try to claim credit for it.

I don’t know how much is getting through to people, through that website, through Truth Social, but I do expect you’ll hear him say things like this on the campaign trail.

BLITZER: Yes, the economic numbers in recent days and weeks have really been excellent. Maggie Haberman, thank you very much for joining us.

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.