Trump's affordability speech was a declaration that the economy is great and anything that's wrong is still, somehow, Joe Biden's fault. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters New York —

President Donald Trump has a few tried-and-true rhetorical strategies. He invokes what “many people are saying” when he needs to make an unsubstantiated claim. He riffs on nicknames for his political enemies. And he repeats a talking point relentlessly, hoping it’ll stick in people’s minds.

But no matter how many times he says he’s created the best economy in history, there is one often-overlooked economic indicator, known as the “quits” rate, that simply cannot be browbeaten into reality.

At the first stop on Trump’s “affordability” messaging tour on Tuesday, it was clear the president was at odds with both his

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