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GQ: Donald Trump Spent His First State of the Union Taking Credit for Barack Obamas Accomplishments
Donald Trump Spent His First State of the Union Taking Credit for Barack Obama’s Accomplishments
Thanks, Obama.
Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, convincingly demonstrating to the entire world that he is, contrary to popular belief, a functional adult who is capable of reading patriotic bromides from a teleprompter for 80 minutes without going on a white-supremacist tangent. But during the parts of his speech in which the president glowingly touted some of the more noteworthy accomplishments of his first year in office, I couldn't help but notice that many of them shared a certain common thread. Let's go through the transcript together and see if you, too, can spot it.
Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs...
The United States has yet to experience a single month of net job loss since October 2010. Barack Obama was president then.
...including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone.
Manufacturing jobs in this country have been slowly but gradually increasing since 2010. Barack Obama was president then.
After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages.
Inflation-adjusted wages have been steadily on the rise since 2014. Barack Obama was president then.
Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low.
That figure has been plummeting since April 2009. Barack Obama was president then.
....
Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, convincingly demonstrating to the entire world that he is, contrary to popular belief, a functional adult who is capable of reading patriotic bromides from a teleprompter for 80 minutes without going on a white-supremacist tangent. But during the parts of his speech in which the president glowingly touted some of the more noteworthy accomplishments of his first year in office, I couldn't help but notice that many of them shared a certain common thread. Let's go through the transcript together and see if you, too, can spot it.
Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs...
The United States has yet to experience a single month of net job loss since October 2010. Barack Obama was president then.
...including 200,000 new jobs in manufacturing alone.
Manufacturing jobs in this country have been slowly but gradually increasing since 2010. Barack Obama was president then.
After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages.
Inflation-adjusted wages have been steadily on the rise since 2014. Barack Obama was president then.
Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low.
That figure has been plummeting since April 2009. Barack Obama was president then.
....
https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-sotu-2018
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