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by madenine 3447 days ago
Its safe to assume that anything that happened since the election will be claimed by Trump. Regardless of whether he or his administration have the slightest thing to do with it.

All jobs created in the next 4 years will be because of Trump, and all jobs lost will be because of Clinton/Bush/Obama.
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choko 3447 days ago
It's safe to assume because it's SOP for politicians. You aren't saying anything that hasn't been true of any incoming president in my lifetime. Hell, it's often true in the private sector during a management change.
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bryanlarsen 3447 days ago
10 million net jobs were created during the Obama administration. How many of those did he tweet about?
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refurb 3447 days ago
Tweet? No. Press Releases? Plenty of them. You could have just done a Google search.[1]

And when Obama started tweeting before the 2008 election, everyone thought he was so "with it" in terms of technology. Trump does it and it's a problem.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...

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serge2k 3447 days ago
> Trump does it and it's a problem

That's cause he goes on 3am rants that sound like they were written by a 10 year old.

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Gargoyle 3447 days ago
His administration has certainly issued press releases about them.

This is getting silly. It is 100% in line for all politicians to claim credit for everything they can, and many things they can't.

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mason240 3447 days ago
We are really going to pretend that he and his supporters didn't credit for it?
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spoiledtechie 3447 days ago
More than 80% of those were low skills service jobs. The jobs Trump is creating and the factories he saved are high skilled high paying jobs.
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MisterBastahrd 3447 days ago
Presidents don't create jobs or lose them. The demands of the economy do that. Presidents can influence the economy, but they also have Congress and the Fed to deal with.
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aaronbrethorst 3447 days ago
Are you referring to Carrier, where some of the 1,100 jobs supposedly saved were never moving to Mexico? They're going to invest some of the money they're getting from the government into automation to further replace human workers.

Or Ford, which was never moving the jobs in question out of the country.

Or something else?

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