{"id":616253,"date":"2026-05-01T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:20:10","slug":"fox-figures-repeatedly-claimed-the-economy-would-grow-at-a-5-pace-thanks-to-trump-it-actually-grew-just-2-in-the-first-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616253\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox figures repeatedly claimed the economy would grow at a 5% pace thanks to Trump. It actually grew just 2% in the first quarter of 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Fox personalities spent the first quarter of 2026 repeatedly telling viewers that the economy was growing robustly or predicting growth at up to a 5% annualized rate thanks to President Donald Trump\u2019s purported improvements to the American economy during his second term. According to the April 30\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/news\/2026\/gdp-advance-estimate-1st-quarter-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advance estimate<\/a> from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real gross domestic product growth for the first quarter of 2026 came in at just 2% \u2014 yet Fox\u2019s initial reaction was to portray this as \u201cfairly strong\u201d economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Fox figures set\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/watch-how-fox-covered-todays-weak-gdp-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similar expectations<\/a> for the fourth quarter of 2025, predicting anywhere from 3% to 5% growth; instead, the advance estimate for that quarter was just 1.4% and has since been revised downward to a mere 0.5%. But even before the final economic growth figures for 2025 were reported, Fox\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/tariffs-trade\/after-economy-fell-flat-2025-fox-promised-next-year-looks-its-going-be-amazing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a> that 2026 was \u201cgoing to be amazing\u201d after the economy fell flat in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox personalities spent the first quarter of 2026 repeatedly telling viewers that the economy was growing robustly or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-616253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}