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But also, one is for the second quarter of the year while the other is from August — two periods that don't overlap. Had Trump used unemployment rates from the second quarter, the point still would have been valid: The rates in April through June were below 4.2 percent. That may not hold, though. The GDP rate will still be revised one more time before it is finalized. If it is revised down to 4 percent, it will not be higher than the June unemployment rate.

For whatever that's worth! But also: Trump is completely wrong about how rare this is.

Here is the change in GDP, compared with the unemployment rate in each month since the end of World War II. It's not going back a century, but, as you'll see, it doesn't matter.

We're looking for places where the light blue bars extend above the dark blue line. If Trump is correct, that happens only in the most recent quarter. Do you see anywhere else that it happens?

Here, let's highlight those places where it happens.

Not infrequently!

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In fact, not only has it been less than a century since the rate of change in the GDP has been higher than the unemployment rate, it has been only 12 years. It happened in 2006, under President George W. Bush. Out of the 282 full quarters since 1948, the rate of change in the GDP has topped the unemployment rate 64 times, or more than a quarter of the time. So 64 times in the past 70 years. Not quite the same as once in a century. Granted, it hasn't happened much recently — but there was that giant recession shortly after the last time it happened.

Trump also offered another GDP-related observation Monday morning.

Again: GDP, the gross domestic product of the United States, measured in dollars, is not what Trump is talking about here. But also he's desperately cherry-picking the data. The rate of change in GDP was less than 1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, but was just less than 2 percent at the end of 2016. It was the same in Trump's first quarter as president. As we reported Friday, the effect of the tax cuts on the economy has been hard to measure on many metrics. But given that the trends Trump celebrates most — a declining unemployment rate, increasing stock valuations — all began under his predecessor, it's hard to see why they would suddenly have reversed under another Democrat.

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But Trump had a retweet covering that, too.

Trump's ensuing tweets addressed TV coverage of Bob Woodward's new book about his presidency.

Update: Later in the morning, Trump expanded on his thoughts about GDP growth.

The only reference we can find to Obama having wondered if Trump had a magic wand was during a 2016 PBS NewsHour town-hall event.

Talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the country, Obama said, “He just says, ‘I’m gonna negotiate a better deal.’ Well, how? How exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer."