The RNC says Trump's jobs numbers are 'unprecedented,' because words don't matter anymore

Source: Washington Post

The RNC says Trump’s jobs numbers are ‘unprecedented,’ because words don’t matter anymore

By Aaron Blake August 7 at 2:58 PM

Let's grant, for the sake of argument, that President Trump deserves credit for every single job created since he was inaugurated. Let's allow that the policies implemented by the Obama administration for eight years that set the job market on its current course have nothing to do with even one job created under Trump.

Even then, Trump's defenders can't help but overinflate his economic record.

The Republican National Committee tweeted this claim Sunday night:

Link to tweet

To be clear: “unprecedented” means it has never happened before. This tweet strongly suggests that "1 million new jobs in six months” never happened before Trump took office. And that suggestion would be wrong — very wrong.

In fact, President Barack Obama actually saw slightly more jobs created in his final six months — 1.08 million — than Trump has in his first six — 1.07 million. And Obama also saw more jobs created than Trump:

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