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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:59 PM May 2017

Trump Says His Trip to Europe Has Already Saved 'Millions of Jobs'

By Eric Levitz

May 26, 2017
2:12 pm

On his first foreign trip as president, Donald Trump touched a glowing orb with the leader of an Islamist autocracy that he’d accused of orchestrating 9/11; suggested Israel is not a part of the Middle East; signed a Holocaust Museum’s “Book of Remembrance” as though it were a middle-school yearbook; accidentally admitted that he had leaked highly classified Israeli intelligence to an ally of Iran; shoved the prime minister of Montenegro; said that Germany is “very evil”; turned a handshake with the French president into a naked struggle for dominance; and, somehow saved “millions of jobs” in the process.




Here’s how an anonymous White House official justified Trump’s claim to the Washington Post:

<Trump was not talking just about the Saudi deals but “benefits to trade from the entire trip from Saudi Arabia to the G7.” He noted that “any improvement on trade would save many jobs. Stopping even one bad trade deal can save millions. Changing the infrastructure of global trade to tilt it back toward the U.S. would save and create millions.”>

No old trade deals were canceled — or new ones announced — during Trump’s trip.

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Trump Says His Trip to Europe Has Already Saved 'Millions of Jobs' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
He uses twitter cause he doesn't have room to elaborate... angstlessk May 2017 #1
I just read on DU earlier today that while at the meeting with the EU in Brussels, he was surprised politicaljunkie41910 May 2017 #11
Actually, Turbineguy May 2017 #2
and all the job holders onethatcares May 2017 #12
That proves it! Turbineguy May 2017 #14
gazillions, onethatcares May 2017 #15
STFU Donnie! Initech May 2017 #3
Exactly! Zoonart May 2017 #4
+1 leftstreet May 2017 #5
Watch him pull a rabbit outa his arse. Nt BootinUp May 2017 #6
Why not trillions? moondust May 2017 #7
He's an arse... HipChick May 2017 #8
It's like the big lie he said few days back he's created 1millon FloridaBlues May 2017 #9
Why not make up some other crap as well? ProudLib72 May 2017 #10
I agree, please never come back Johonny May 2017 #13

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
11. I just read on DU earlier today that while at the meeting with the EU in Brussels, he was surprised
Fri May 26, 2017, 05:12 PM
May 2017

to learn how much trade the US actually did with the EU. He's an Ass and who gave him back his phone so he could tweet.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
9. It's like the big lie he said few days back he's created 1millon
Fri May 26, 2017, 04:57 PM
May 2017

Jobs since he became president
Oh really I must have slept through that report. Hope he stays over seas for a few yrs

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
10. Why not make up some other crap as well?
Fri May 26, 2017, 05:03 PM
May 2017

Pope took me to meet God. God let me be God for ten minutes, and I solved world hunger, cancer, etc. Why couldn't God have done this? God is a big loser. Sad!

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