from day one. People at the Failing New York Times are very angry at him for having "missed" by soooo much. Paul, match over!"

Trump struck a similar chord in a tweet last April:

"Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me. He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is. He said Market would crash, Only Record Highs!"

Trump is winning the spat so far

Krugman has largely dismissed Trump's economic record, pointing to warning signs and patches of weakness in the US economy, and underlining the severe impact of the trade war on business confidence and consumers' wallets.

However, continued US economic growth, stocks at recordheavy rains.

Both storms were massive in scope. Harvey dumped a record 51 inches of rainfall as it sat over Texas and Louisiana, saturating the region with 27 trillion gallons of water in six days . Irma was the strongest Atlantic-basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, spending three days as a Category 5 hurricane, the longest Category 5 on record. Irma maintained winds of 185 mph or above for a total of 37 hours, the most ever for a storm.

"If this isn't climate change," Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado said as Irma bore down on Florida, "I don't know what is."

Neighborhoods near Interstate 10 in Houston sit in floodwaters in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

'This brings it home'

Last week, Scott Pruitt, head of