Donald Trump is so desperate to celebrate something that he is touting 11 percent unemployment after the June jobs report showed that millions of Americans have managed to get their jobs back after being previously laid off because of the pandemic.
Keep in mind that the unemployment rate stood at 3.5 percent in December 2019. But then Trump’s incompetent and reckless response to the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the economy having to be shut down in an effort to prevent the spread. In a matter of weeks, jobless claims shot up to 40 million. But Trump thinks he’s scored a victory because 4.8 million of those Americans got their jobs back.
It’s pretty damn pathetic, which is why Twitter mocked him for spiking the football.
It’s not jobs added. It’s people that got laid of and got their job back. “more workers who were laid off earlier this year were able to return to their pre-pandemic jobs”
There are almost 35,000,000 unemployed. #TrumpFailedAmerica
— Suher (@_suher_) July 2, 2020
I wouldn’t brag about 11% unemployment
— Edward Kim (@eddiek005) July 2, 2020
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You wanna talk about numbers?
1. 129,000 people dead
2. 42,000,000 unemployed
3. 2,600,000 COVID-19 cases
4. 30 states with cases spiking
5. 23 states paused reopening
6. 50,000 cases in ONE DAY
7. Joe Biden beat you in fundraising for June by $10M.From his basement. 🤣🤣😭😭
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 2, 2020
Standing on a bloody pile of American bones declaring victory in the middle of unprecedented failure. Because of course you would. Your presidency is trash: corrupt, catastrophic, racist. You’re done.
— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) July 2, 2020
Oh, look!
It is the man who is proud of presiding over the third worst monthly unemployment rate since the Great Depression.
(And in case there was any doubt, the same guy was president for numbers one and two.)
— Jean L.P. Jaurès 🌎🔬📚⚖️ (@larsp2740) July 2, 2020
Unemployment corrected to 16.3%.
Black unemployment 16.8%, the highest in more than 10 years.
Latino unemployment 17.6%.130,000 deaths
Trump silent on soldiers murders
Any leader taking a victory lap over these numbers is completely out of touch with working people.
— Debbie (@DebbieSVA) July 2, 2020
Trump spiking the football when he is down by nine touchdowns. Unreal.
— Stuart Rothenberg (@StuPolitics) July 2, 2020
This unemployment rate is not something to celebrate. These jobs were “created” because they already previously existed, but Trump is doctoring the numbers to make it look like he accomplished some Herculean task ahead of an election he is currently losing.
And because the coronavirus is still raging across the nation, it’s likely many state economies will have to shut down all over again.
We are in a recession and that’s not going to end any time soon. Trump was claiming to be an economic champion when the unemployment rate stood at 3.5 percent. What kind of economic champion celebrates that number shooting up to 11 percent? The answer is someone who is not an economic champion at all, because we all know that if former President Barack Obama had touted 11 percent unemployment after presiding over 3.5 percent unemployment, Republicans would have crucified him.
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