Overview

• Trump’s Truth Social post this weekend attacked Paul Krugman as a “Trump Deranged BUM,” touted record market highs and misidentified him as a New York Times columnist.
• Nobel laureate Paul Krugman hit back in a Substack commentary, calling Trump’s claims about the economy and rising Washington, D.C. crime “malicious nonsense.”
• Krugman insisted that news outlets stop describing Trump’s assertions as disputed and plainly label his market and crime statements as lies.
• The spat follows a weak jobs report and ongoing tariff and China negotiation debates that have complicated the administration’s economic messaging.
• Federal data show that violent crime in Washington, D.C. has dropped to a 30-year low, contradicting Trump’s depiction of the city as lawless.