The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 38,000 mark for the first time ever on Monday, the index now up nearly 10,000 points since November 2020. In celebration of this milestone Media Matters published a transcript from Friday’s edition of Sean Hannity’s radio show where he said “the stock market impacts 8 percent of Americans. It does not impact the other 92 percent. It’s one of the main reasons I’ve never used it as any kind of real barometer in terms of the health of our economy. And, you know, this thing can come tumbling down just as quickly as it went up. Yeah, stocks went up, this past year. What? It just barely made up for what the losses were last year.”
Media Matter then followed it with no less than 12 video clips of Hannity saying shit like “President Trump has amassed a historical level of accomplishment… Look at the economy on fire, record after record,” and that Trump “has been building a track record of economic and diplomatic achievement,” specifically referring to the stock market at the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500 et cetera.