On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America eagerly touted the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showing a “dramatic drop in the President’s approval rating” that “seems to be fueled by real concerns about the economy.” Following weeks of the media rooting for a recession to hurt Trump’s reelection chances, the ABC morning show appeared thrilled that tactic was working with some of its viewers.

“And our brand-new poll with The Washington Post released just moments ago showing a dramatic drop in the President’s approval rating, now 38%....this latest drop seems to be fueled by real concerns about the economy,” announced co-host George Stephanopoulos. Chief White House correspondent Jon Karl noted: “The poll shows that a solid majority of Americans, George, still feel positively about the economy, but really worry about the future.”

In fact, the poll found that 56% said the economy was “excellent” or “good.” However, that number was never specifically highlighted on GMA.

Instead, Karl hyped: “Take a look at this number: 60% of Americans fear a recession in the coming year. That’s bad news for President Trump.” Not only has ABC repeatedly stoked panic over a possible future recession, but the poll question itself led respondents in the direction of worrying about an economic downturn:

As you may know, periods of economic growth are followed by periods of recession. Do you think a recession over the next year is very likely, somewhat likely, somewhat unlikely or very unlikely?

Karl continued to use the poll to sound the alarm: “But even worse is this next set of numbers: 43% believe that the President’s policies will increase the chance of that recession, 34% believe they’ll make no difference, and only 16% of Americans in our poll say that the President’s policies would help head off a recession.”

Of course a more accurate way to describe those findings would be that 50% of Americans did not think that the President’s policies were increasing the likelihood of a recession, 57% if one includes the 7% who had “no opinion” on the matter.

Karl concluded: “The bottom line, you have a big majority fearing a recession and far more thinking that the President’s policies will make things worse than make them better.”

Repeating the story in the 8:00 a.m. ET hour, Karl proclaimed: “So some real warning signs there for the President on what really is his strongest re-election talking point, the economy.” Stephanopoulos touted how “the economy will be a big issue in Thursday night’s Democratic debate” that he will be co-moderating on ABC.

A Media Research Center Business study found that the media engaged in recession fearmongering every single day throughout June and July. In fact, it got so bad that financial journalists began warning about the negative economic implications of such reckless reporting. Appearing on NBC’s Today show on August 15, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer told his colleagues in the press to “dial back the hysteria.” On September 8, Cramer took to CNBC’s Squawk Box point out: “The only people talking about a recession are us.” On August 26, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo told MediaBuzz’s Howard Kurtz that “Yes, you can actually have the media talking us into a recession.”

The media are well aware of their potential impact on how people perceive the economy and seem intent on talking the country into a recession in order to damage Trump and help 2020 Democrats.

Here is a transcript of the September 10 coverage on GMA: