From the Department of Completely Made Up Shit:
That clip comes from a speech at the Economic Club of New York today, and as Rupar points out at Vox, Trump’s claim is literally impossible, since the economy as a whole has created only 6 million jobs since he’s been president.
From Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential inauguration through the middle of last month, the American economy added a total of about 6 million jobs. But during a speech to the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, he credited his daughter Ivanka with personally creating more than double that many jobs than that over the same timespan.
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To be clear, the economy isn’t in bad shape, even if Trump’s jobs record to date lags behind Obama. While GDP growth so far this year has been unspectacular and wages are stagnant, the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low. That means that people who want to find a job can, for the most part, find a job. But there isn’t a shred of evidence that Ivanka Trump has created a single one of them, much less tens of millions — aside perhaps from the 18 people who worked for her namesake fashion brand before she shut it down in July of last year.
Okay, so I guess Trump’s claim might make sense if he’s crediting himself with 8 million jobs lost. But what are the chances he’d cop to that?
So where does he get this number?
Can’t say for sure, but as with any Trump speech, the citations likely look like this:
1His ass
2Ibid
3Ibid
4Ibid
5Ibid
6Ibid
So we’re veering dangerously close to “Kim Jong Il shot five holes in one the first time he ever golfed” territory. Not that that will slow the ocher oaf down.
Of course, the sheer impossibility of Trump’s latest economic claim won’t change the fact that far more than 14 million people will believe it. And they’ll likely continue to believe it long after their jobs are shipped to one of Ivanka’s favorite Chinese sweatshops.
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