The Morning Joe segment opened with Mika Brzezinski referencing the Thursday Times report on GDP figures, following a clip of Trump boasting about expected economic growth.

"I think we can go to four, five, maybe even six percent ultimately," Trump proclaimed. "Each percentage point is two and a half-trillion dollars. We are back. We're really going to start to rock. We need this as our final push, and you're going to see some numbers that are great."

But Thursday's report from the U.S. Commerce Department showed that GDP grew at only a 2.1 percent rate in the fourth quarter of 2019.