With the economy souring over the course of President Donald Trump’s second term, Kevin Hassett, his director of the National Economic Council has been frantic to lay the blame anywhere but the White House. Then earlier this week, he said something so absurd that Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called it outright “stupid.”According to Krugman, “On Fox News, Hassett was, as usual, boasting about how great the economy is, when he was as…