So much lying. His moron voting base won’t care, but they are a very small minority now. People with at least half a brain have seen what a fool he is.
*snip*
Trump
claimed credit for squeezing more money out of NATO partners when they reiterated their previous spending commitments. He
took credit for building the U.S. military into the most powerful on Earth (previous rank: No. 1) and for a
$12 billion drop in the U.S. debt after his first month in office. (It has since grown
by $2 trillion.)
He
gave himself props for the “safest year on record” in aviation in 2017, even though no U.S. airline had had a fatality
since 2009. And he
claimed credit for inventing the
19th-century economic phrase “prime the pump.” This would appear to be a pure example of “fake news” — a phrase for which Trump has also awarded himself authorship.
He has most prominently
claimed credit for low unemployment (particularly for African Americans and Hispanics), high stock values and the “greatest economy in the history of our country,” though he previously said the expansion, which
began under President Barack Obama, was the weakest in history, with fake unemployment figures and a stock-market “
bubble.”
“Since my election as president the Dow Jones is up 43%,”
Trump tweeted Monday morning, nearly 10 years into a bull market that grew some 150 percent under Trump’s predecessor. But when stocks plunged in December, Trump
blamed the Federal Reserve.
Likewise, Trump has for months
taken credit for falling gas prices: “Thank you President T,” he
wrote, and “Do you think it’s just luck that gas prices are so low, and falling?” More recently, with prices rising, Trump blamed OPEC. “Please relax and take it easy,”
he instructed the oil cartel Monday.
This week, Trump is to have nuclear talks with North Korea, after
previously claiming credit for eliminating the country’s nuclear threat — even though it has not given up its weapons. This led to an
amusing exchange Sunday between CNN’s Jake Tapper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:
Tapper : Do you think North Korea remains a nuclear threat?
Pompeo : Yes.
Tapper : But the president said he doesn’t.
Pompeo : That’s not what he said. . . .
Tapper : He tweeted: “There’s no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.”
Trump took credit for a “terrific” new trade deal with Canada and Mexico that is
largely the same as the previous pact, which he
called “the worst.”
Calling off threatened tariff increases against China, he appears to be preparing to do the same there. He claimed credit for a
drop in generic drug prices unrelated to actions he took, for savings on military contracts and for corporate expansions that pre-dated him and for
environmental cleanups done by a previous administration.
“How about the word ‘caravan?’ ” he said at a rally last week. “ ‘Caravan.’ I think that was one of mine.” The Post’s JM Rieger, who
traced the origin of “caravan” to 1588, observed that Trump has also awarded himself credit for, among other things, a veterans’ health-care law enacted in 2014.
And as Congress blocked his border wall, Trump
claimed credit for segments of wall built years ago. “A lot of the wall is built,” he
announced.
*snip*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...9364b2ed137_story.html?utm_term=.3b18447e21dc
