We can't actually see or hear what's happening at the White House press briefings these days in real time, but at least we now know why the sessions are held off camera.

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Thursday's briefing included a section on "MAGAnomics." With graphics. For real. Not a joke.

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Based on tweets from the press briefing, and the above op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, it looks like budget director Mick Mulvaney showed his bulletproof economic plan for achieving 3 percent economic growth, a projection for which the most popular description is "fantasy."

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He's calling it MAGAnomics. Because people like acronyms. And Reagan. And things that are great. Or something.

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Naturally, what was meant to be a serious presentation quickly turned into a Photoshop joke.

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We can only imagine what could've been if the cameras had been on and rolling.

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