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" According to Donald Trump, what President Obama handed over to him was …
"As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy," he told the assembled reporters. "To be honest, I inherited a mess. It's a mess.”
Yes. A record 75 consecutive months of job growth leading to a 4.7 percent unemployment rate, a stock market up 150 percent and still rising. Corporate profits at an all time high. And for the first time in almost forty years, middle-class incomes actually on the rise. A mess. The funny thing is, now that his name on on the mailbox, Trump has discovered that this “mess” is just beautiful.
While Donald Trump accuses his predecessor of wiretapping his office and prods Congress to eviscerate his signature domestic achievement, he also demands credit for Obama administration victories that he had nothing or little to do with.
Trump is now anxious to not only claim the 76th and 77th month of the Obama Recovery as his own, he’s suddenly decided that the unemployment numbers and job growth figures that he called “a hoax” during the campaign are now perfect.
Claiming credit for work other people did is the Trump way.
President Trump claimed undue credit for ExxonMobil’s investment announcement — the latest example of the new president’s now-predictable formula: A company announces a U.S. jobs plan that predates Trump’s presidency. The company gives a nod to Trump’s anti-regulation policies. Trump then takes credit for bringing jobs back to the United States. Repeat.
Donald Trump didn’t stop with tweeting his praise of the February jobs report. He also claimed January, even though the data from that month came almost exclusively before he took office.
But then, Trump has already claimed credit not just for Exxon jobs, but jobs at Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Softbank, Sprint and Alibaba http://… none of which had a thing to do with Trump.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/10/1642150/-Donald-Trump-called-the-economy-a-mess-and-the-unemployment-rate-a-hoax-then-a-miracle-occurred
"As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy," he told the assembled reporters. "To be honest, I inherited a mess. It's a mess.”
While Donald Trump accuses his predecessor of wiretapping his office and prods Congress to eviscerate his signature domestic achievement, he also demands credit for Obama administration victories that he had nothing or little to do with.
Claiming credit for work other people did is the Trump way.
President Trump claimed undue credit for ExxonMobil’s investment announcement — the latest example of the new president’s now-predictable formula: A company announces a U.S. jobs plan that predates Trump’s presidency. The company gives a nod to Trump’s anti-regulation policies. Trump then takes credit for bringing jobs back to the United States. Repeat.
But then, Trump has already claimed credit not just for Exxon jobs, but jobs at Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Softbank, Sprint and Alibaba http://… none of which had a thing to do with Trump.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/10/1642150/-Donald-Trump-called-the-economy-a-mess-and-the-unemployment-rate-a-hoax-then-a-miracle-occurred