Donald Trump cannot take criticism, but he also doesn’t seem to be able to take praise. It isn’t enough that the American economy continues to do well ten months into the Trump economic plan (during the first 12 months, Obama’s economic policies were still in place), Trump needs everyone to ignore provable facts and say that the economy has only done well during his presidency.
That is simply not true.
Trump has access to all of the economic data he needs to understand that he’s lying. He doesn’t even have to read anything, there are graphs and pictures that make understanding this quite easy.
For instance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows job growth since the economic collapse in 2007 when a Republican president brought us to the brink of the biggest economic depression since the 1930s.
The unemployment rate has continued to drop, just as it has since Obama’s second year in office, which was the first in which his economic policies were put into place. Trump once said these numbers did not reflect the truth of how many Americans had simply dropped out of the job market. Now, his slightly smaller numbers are, according to him, completely real and indicative that he is “the greatest jobs president ever.”
Trump also continues to push the false statement that he wants Americans to believe came from Obama that it was impossible for anyone to get the quarterly GDP above three percent. He never said that and, in fact, saw quarters of well over four percent and one over five percent.
Trump cannot truly believe he faced an economic recession when he took office, but he’s sure hoping his supporters will.
Twitter reminded Trump of all these facts and more. See some of their comments below:
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