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Trump's Remarks to the Nation's Mayors on Transforming America's Communities
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Remarks by President Trump to the Nations Mayors on Transforming Americas Communities
ECONOMY & JOBS
Issued on: January 24, 2020
East Room
4:38 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please, sit down. Please. (Applause.) It is a great place, isnt it? Its the White House. Its a great place.
{snip}
All across America, cities are being lifted up by our booming economy. America is now the hottest economy anywhere in the world.
Weve created over 7 million jobs since the election a number that would be unthought of. If I ever said that during the campaign you know the feeling they would have gone after me very strongly, huh? Huh? (Laughter and applause.)
The unemployment rate is the lowest in more than half a century. African American, Hispanic American, Asian American unemployment have reached the lowest levels ever recorded in the history of our country. African American, Hispanic American poverty rates are at record lows. Great. (Applause.) Thats great. More than 2 million millennials have gotten jobs, and their wages have grown by nearly 5 percent every year which is another record.
We doubled the child tax credit, benefitting 40 million American families. And weve lifted 650,000 single mothers and 1.4 million children out of poverty. (Applause.) True. Ten million people have been lifted off of welfare in less than three years.
Earnings for the bottom 10 percent are rising faster than earnings for the top 10 percent. You dont hear that too often, but its been incredible, actually.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, every single metro area in the United States has seen incomes rise. Median household income is at the highest level ever recorded. And, speaking of that, in terms of dollars: Under President Bush, it was a $450 increase over eight years; under President Obama, it was a $975 increase over eight years; and under your favorite President, President Trump (laughter) it was almost a $10,000 increase over less than three years. So we did it, as of less than three. (Applause.) Weve been here now just three, as of a few days ago. Time flies. But $10,000. So thats in a three-year period. So thats something really special. And theyve never seen growth like that.
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Remarks by President Trump to the Nations Mayors on Transforming Americas Communities
ECONOMY & JOBS
Issued on: January 24, 2020
East Room
4:38 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please, sit down. Please. (Applause.) It is a great place, isnt it? Its the White House. Its a great place.
{snip}
All across America, cities are being lifted up by our booming economy. America is now the hottest economy anywhere in the world.
Weve created over 7 million jobs since the election a number that would be unthought of. If I ever said that during the campaign you know the feeling they would have gone after me very strongly, huh? Huh? (Laughter and applause.)
The unemployment rate is the lowest in more than half a century. African American, Hispanic American, Asian American unemployment have reached the lowest levels ever recorded in the history of our country. African American, Hispanic American poverty rates are at record lows. Great. (Applause.) Thats great. More than 2 million millennials have gotten jobs, and their wages have grown by nearly 5 percent every year which is another record.
We doubled the child tax credit, benefitting 40 million American families. And weve lifted 650,000 single mothers and 1.4 million children out of poverty. (Applause.) True. Ten million people have been lifted off of welfare in less than three years.
Earnings for the bottom 10 percent are rising faster than earnings for the top 10 percent. You dont hear that too often, but its been incredible, actually.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, every single metro area in the United States has seen incomes rise. Median household income is at the highest level ever recorded. And, speaking of that, in terms of dollars: Under President Bush, it was a $450 increase over eight years; under President Obama, it was a $975 increase over eight years; and under your favorite President, President Trump (laughter) it was almost a $10,000 increase over less than three years. So we did it, as of less than three. (Applause.) Weve been here now just three, as of a few days ago. Time flies. But $10,000. So thats in a three-year period. So thats something really special. And theyve never seen growth like that.
Snip}
Wrong. Again. No matter how many times he says this, it's not true.
Friday, January 10, 2020: Trump's Remarks on Proposed National Environmental Policy Act Regulations: January 9, 2020
Trump pushes some extremely dubious numbers about median household income during his term. See a fact-check here: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trumps-shaky-5000-boast/
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Also Friday, January 10, 2020: Here are some corrections.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019: Pence's Remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement - Duryea, PA: October 21, 2019
Ummmmmm, no:
Trump is retweeting bizarrely false numbers from @bennyjohnson
Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted
The president is retweeting bizarrely false numbers from @bennyjohnson
Here's the chart of median household income in the Trump years. It's up $600, not $6000. And up $3500 between 2009 and 2016, not $800
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Correction, the president's false stat about the Obama years was $1000. Still false, but differently false from the $800 that I mistakenly transcribed.
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Trump's Remarks to the Nation's Mayors on Transforming America's Communities (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2020
OP
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)1. The dow is crashing right now sooo....
He's so profoundly incorrect on literally everything.
Ohiogal
(32,090 posts)2. Does anyone
really believe all these lies?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)3. Yes. NT
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)4. The lies will get bigger and bigger
as we get closer to the elections and his base will buy the BS.