Lieflation: Trump Tells Crowd Ivanka Has Created 14 Million New Jobs

[Soph0571]

At a speech to the Economic Club of New York today, President Trump declared that his daughter, Ivanka, has personally created 14 million new jobs. The president announced this figure — so astonishingly ludicrous it would embarrass a Stalin-era pronouncement — and then repeated it twice more as the crowd applauded politely.

The entire U.S. economy has created fewer than 6 million new jobs since Trump took office. So Trump is crediting his daughter with having personally created more than 200 percent of all new jobs in the United States. This is like supply-side economics but for authoritarian nepotism.

[link:http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html|]

You know what they say - the bigger the lie - but this is just fucking ridiculous... even of you count her exploitation of Chinese workers

[jberryhill]

1. No, no, no, not that kind of "jobs"

He misunderstood what she told him.

[IcyPeas]

2. he just pulls numbers out of his........

One surprise for the room on Tuesday: Mr. Trump said that wages for the average American worker during his presidency had risen $10,000. That was $3,000 more than the $7,000 that Trump claimed workers had gained just three weeks ago.

Mr. Trump also said that 10,000 factories have opened in the U.S. under his watch, adding that companies are bringing jobs back from overseas. "Many more want to, and are planning on coming back to the U.S.," he said. "I know this is true because I have said it before and no one in the media has called me out on it, and you know they love to say that Trump is lying."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-economic-club-speech-live-stream-president-trump-at-the-new-york-economic-club-today-2019-11-12/

[keithbvadu2]

3. Ivanka's new jobs are in China.

Ivanka's new jobs are in China.

Ask him how many jobs the Trump family has brought back from other countries.

[NCLefty]

4. "And the prices of Gold Pressed Latinum are up 87 quadrillion % in the Alpha Quadrant."