Mimicing the infamous “Is God Dead?” cover from 1966, TIME Magazine takes aim at President Trump’s truthiness by asking “Is Truth Dead?”

President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career.

As Politico reports, President Trump defended his prior controversial statements on wiretapping, voter fraud and an array of other issues, claiming that he has ultimately been proven right time and time again. Some fun excerpts include:

• “I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right,” Trump told Time’s Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer in an interview conducted Wednesday and published Thursday morning. “I tend to be right. I’m an instinctual person, I happen to be a person that knows how life works.”
• “When I said ‘wire tapping,’ it was in quotes.”
• On his unsubstantiated claim that 3 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally, Trump said he would be proved right eventually, though he hinted that he no longer stood by all parts of that claim: “When I say that, mostly they register wrong. In other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly, and/ or illegally. I’m forming a committee on it.”
• On Sweden: “I was right about that.”

Finally Trump concluded that he had only been “quoting highly respected people from highly respected television networks.”

Then, added as the interview ended..

“Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know.”

While not directly addressing monetary policy, this morning Janet Yellen delivers a speech titled “Strong Foundations: The Economic Futures of Kids and Communities” at the 10th Biennial Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference in Washington, D.C. And while she won’t talk about the pace of future rate hikes, or the future of the balance sheet, Yellen has decided to continue her trolling of the US population and following up on her September 2014 speech in which she explained to the poor, that it is
“important to get rich”,  in today’s speech Yellen tells her audience that “considerable evidence shows that growing up poor makes it harder to succeed as an adult.”

So maybe to assure an equal start, it’s time to give every baby a million dollars then, just to put them on the right course? Also, think of the hyperinflationary fringe benefits.

Yellen also said “research presented over the next two days makes a compelling case that there is a need to also think longer term about how to prepare people for success in the labor market” which probably boils down to two word: “hard work.”

Yellen also notes that “as a central banker, I recognize the benefits to the broader economy when more people are better prepared for work and for managing their finances.” Perhaps because if one isn’t a central banker, the benefits to one’s finances and the broader economy from labor are not obvious?

Full speech here, and the live webcast is below.