Saturday, Fox News reached new depths of disingenuous deception with this tweet:
Jobless rate after first 3 months: Trump vs. Obama vs. Bush vs. Clinton:
Trump, 4.5% Obama, 9% Bush (II) 4.4% Clinton, 7.1%
Fortunately, people other than Fox viewers read Fox’s twitter and flooded it with tweets pointing out the absurdity of this juxtaposition. Obviously, it was the Democrats who left the Republican Presidents with good job numbers and the Republicans who proceeded to screw up and leave their Democratic successors to clean up their mess. (the chart could also have added Bush 1 left Clinton with a 7.1% job number to improve upon).
As “Mrs. Betty Bowers” responded: