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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 05:28 AM Mar 2017

19 times Trump called jobs numbers fake before they made him look good

19 times Trump called jobs numbers ‘fake’ before they made him look good
By Christopher Ingraham March 10 at 4:49 PM

We may assume President Trump is quite pleased with the strong jobs report from his first full month in office: He retweeted the Drudge Report's triumphant “GREAT AGAIN” framing of the numbers Friday morning, after touting employment figures released by payroll firm ADP earlier in the week.

Not so long ago, however, Trump's view of the monthly jobs report, which comes courtesy of the nonpartisan federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was markedly different. As recently as December, he described the report as “totally fiction.”

If there was any argument over whether Trump was flip-flopping on the jobs report at the precise moment it reflected positively on him, White House press secretary Sean Spicer laid it to rest Friday afternoon, telling reporters: “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.' ”

Let's take a walk down memory lane and remember a few times Trump trashed the jobs numbers as “fake,” incomplete or something other than the right way to determine whether America had been made “great again.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/
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19 times Trump called jobs numbers fake before they made him look good (Original Post) workinclasszero Mar 2017 OP
The man is True Dough Mar 2017 #1
trump is a leech and a parasite.. a wasted pos.. sucking the blood Cha Mar 2017 #2
The fake is tRump. He takes credit for others work and arthritisR_US Mar 2017 #3
I forgot who it was JCinNYC Mar 2017 #4
Sounds exactly like Mitt Romney, but he said "con artist" Ilsa Mar 2017 #7
This is so NOT about 45 Cosmocat Mar 2017 #5
The GOP is getting beyond pathetic...... Chasstev365 Mar 2017 #6
Easy to prove Trump wrong Cicada Mar 2017 #8
republicans: systematic lies to America Achilleaze Mar 2017 #9
Uh, this latest release of numbers makes OBAMA look good. sinkingfeeling Mar 2017 #10
Yes BHO did it all! Just last december Herr Dumpf was calling these reports fake! workinclasszero Mar 2017 #12
tell whatever lie is needed to get the job...fuck the so-called president. spanone Mar 2017 #11

Cha

(297,645 posts)
2. trump is a leech and a parasite.. a wasted pos.. sucking the blood
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 06:06 AM
Mar 2017

out of others who are successful.. while what's left of this brain is rotting from abuse

arthritisR_US

(7,291 posts)
3. The fake is tRump. He takes credit for others work and
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 06:34 AM
Mar 2017

refuses to take responsibility for his continuous f*ck ups!

JCinNYC

(366 posts)
4. I forgot who it was
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 07:34 AM
Mar 2017

That commentator who said it best and most succinctly

He is a consummate Bullshit artist
He has bulshitted his way thru his entire life

Thats why none of this makes sense to normal brain waves

Cause he is always bullshitting
He doesnt posses any core convictions, values, or beliefs
Hes not really alt right, hes wasnt even a republican 10'years ago

He lives in the now because everything to him is bullshit to feed him long enough for the next "now"

Sums up the man perfectly

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
7. Sounds exactly like Mitt Romney, but he said "con artist"
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 08:14 AM
Mar 2017

and "con" or "conned". It was either 2015 or early 2016. Apparently his voters didn't care, as long as drump promised them unicorns and rainbows.

That speech was why I was shocked Mitt met with him after the election, presumably for the SoS job. Suck-up artist, that one is.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
8. Easy to prove Trump wrong
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 09:12 AM
Mar 2017

Trump said the real unemployment rate under Obamacare was huge but that now it is low. That means tens of millions of new employees have recently started working. If this is true then the revenues of payroll service companies such as ADP will explode upwards and their profits will explode upwards. So their financial statements will prove Trump is a liar. Also payroll tax receipts will explode up. When Trump's budget reports show minimal increase in payroll tax receipts that will also prove Trump lied.
I am disappointed that the phony claims of conservatives aren't regularly disproven with available numbers. Example: some conservatives claim the number of illegals in the US is actually 30 million, not 11 million. Yet death certificates report the percentage of the dead who are Hispanic is as the 11 million figure, adjusted for age, implies. That means conservatives propose that the typical illegal in the US has an expected life span of more than 250 years. These illegals are incredibly healthy!

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
12. Yes BHO did it all! Just last december Herr Dumpf was calling these reports fake!
Sat Mar 11, 2017, 03:23 PM
Mar 2017

Trump will crash the economy just like Bush did, count on that. (Unless you are a 1%er anyway)

Dump may even take us into another great depression seeing as how it would serve his and the republican party's fascist political goals.

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