Trump Goes On 5-Tweet Friday Night Twitter Freakout Like A Soon-To-Be Prison Inmate

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Sixteen months into the Trump presidency, nearly every headline about him could begin with “Trump Lies” and be, most often, an accurate representation of the story being reported. After Trump finished lying to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy at least six times within two minutes on Friday, he took to Twitter to tell even more.

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The first tweet of this rant featured a common refrain about the dangerous streets of Chicago, which falls right in line with Trump’s recent rhetoric about undocumented immigrants and MS-13. The point boils down to an insistence that brown people crossing the southern border should be considered dangerous animals and police in Chicago are in moral danger in predominantly black communities.

The truth, none of which phases Trump when he spews his racist rhetoric, is that Chicago is in no way the most dangerous city in the United States. The list of top ten cities with the highest murder rates are almost all in red states, such as St. Louis (Missouri), New Orleans (Louisiana), and Birmingham (Alabama), while Chicago ranks 25th. Coincidentally, none of those top 10 most dangerous cities are home to President Obama.

Obama also made gains in trade revenue growth throughout his presidency. Factcheck.org says that:

‘During the full eight years of Obama’s presidency, annual exports of goods and services rose by just under 20 percent (and actually declined in 2015 and 2016).

‘Meanwhile imports grew even more slowly, by just 6.4 percent, and so the U.S. trade deficit shrunk by nearly 29 percent.’

While Obama’s trade growth may have been slower than he intended, at this point, it’s not really clear that Trump has made any successful trade deals with any country.

It’s also not just Democrats who feel that Trump should not have pulled out of the Iran Deal, unless the leaders of nearly every allied country are Democrats, and they’re not.

As for the summit with North Korea, it’s impossible to tell what might actually come of Trump’s most desired accomplishment. Having made it too well-known that he needed the win to save face after a disastrous first year, he now needs to put on a display of toughness, a show of saying that North Korea will do things his way or he won’t negotiate at all. Since Kim Jong-un has not backed down from his position that the country has no plans to denuclearize, Trump will end up with the same results as every other modern president since the Korean War: with nothing accomplished.

Twitter caught many of Trump’s lies and contradictory statements, as well. See some of their comments below.

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