Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was a complete trainwreck in so many different ways last night. He was far too petty to even acknowledge, much less return House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s customary offer of a friendly handshake, he made a huge spectacle out of awarding the Presidential Medal of Honor to right-wing nutjob Rush Limbaugh, and his hour-plus long speech was just as riddled with falsehoods, misinformation, and outright lies as all the rest of them are.
It’s truly no wonder Pelosi was so damn frustrated with the ordeal that she literally tore up her copy of his speech as soon as he finally shut up.
Of course, it didn’t take long at all for Donald to revert to harping on his favorite scapegoat and sworn enemy, his predecessor, Barack Obama. It was so expected, in fact, that audible groans from the audience could be heard last night as Trump began to bash his forerunner’s economic policies and tout his as the better alternative — a narrative Trump has been attempting to push since his campaigning days back in 2016.
Trump likes to believe, and in turn try to make us believe, that his economy is the best economy to have ever been an economy in the history of ever — according to him, there are just so many “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” all thanks to him.
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However, as unsurprising as it was for Donald to bring Obama up during his SOTU speech, it’s equally unsurprising that his claims are complete and utter bullshit.
Donald was quickly fact-checked on his economic declarations, as is usual these days with a president who spouts an average of 13.5 lies per 24 hour period, and the Trump lie-o-meter proved that once again, Donnie is full of bologna.
A tweet posted by the former head of Obama’s Auto Task Force, Steven Rattner, featuring a graph of job growth under the Trump and Obama administrations, shows that Donald had a startling 1.3 million fewer new jobs in his first 35 months as president as Obama did in his last 35 months.
1.3 million. That’s how many fewer new Trump has created in his first 35 months in office vs. Obama’s last 35 months. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/jDiw5BrGIv
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) February 5, 2020
Donald’s economy isn’t better, he’s not creating more jobs, he’s not whipping Obama’s ass in a make-believe competition like he wants everyone to believe. He’s just a liar. Plain and simple.
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