Every time Donald Trump needs a distraction, he claims to have created jobs that were already on the way. With the healthcare bill on the ropes Friday morning, Sean Spicer was sent out to announce that the regime has achieved a new record in job-creating time travel.
Today @POTUS announced 20K new US jobs from Charter Communications.
When were the Charter jobs actually announced?
Charter made this hiring goal public in the spring of 2015.
Donald Trump is now announcing jobs from before he even entered the presidential race. With Trumpcare currently being packed off to intensive care, it’s only a matter of time before we see Donald Trump claiming the jobs saved by the auto company bailout and those created by the stimulus plan.
After all, by this time in his presidency, Barack Obama had successfully negotiated, lobbied for, and pushed through the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a huge piece of legislation responsible for saving over 2 million jobs and pulling the economy out of recession. It was a contentious bill, requiring considerable attention and genuine deal-making. Perhaps that’s why in the period leading up to its passage, President Obama took zero days of vacation and played zero rounds of golf.
That’s what competent leadership can do.