Last November and December, Donald Trump claimed that his daughter Ivanka had created fourteen million jobs while working for Daddy in the White House:
“14 million people she’s gotten jobs for,” Trump said, referring to Ivanka. “Her goal when she started it two years ago was 500,000 jobs. She’s done over 14 million, so that’s really something.”
This wasn’t the first time Trump lauded his daughter in this way — he made the same claim during a speech to the Economic Club of New York last month. The problem, however, is that the entire American economy hasn’t even added half as many jobs as Trump is giving Ivanka credit for creating [Aaron Rupar, “Trump Just Claimed Ivanka Created 14 Million Jobs. The Entire Economy Added 6 Million,” Vox, 2019.12.12].
This week, Trump inflated that risible claim by another million:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY7rg4oo74g
On Tuesday, President Trump hosted a call with business leaders to discuss efforts to provide financial relief to small businesses. During that call, he made an astounding claim: that his daughter Ivanka personally created 15 million jobs [Ian Millhiser, “Trump Claims That His Daughter Created 10 Percent of All the Jobs in the United States,” Vox, 2020.04.08].
The March unemployment report, which is based on household and business surveys from the middle of the month, showed we lost 701,000 jobs, more than the sum of jobs created in December, January, and February. So the suggestion that she’s created more jobs since Il Duce’s December claim is just piling a whopper on top of another whopper.
And remember: the March unemployment report precedes the full force of the coronavirus recession. Ten million Americans filed for unemployment in the last two weeks of March (and the next report comes out this morning). We could lose 47 million jobs due to the fact that we can’t leave the house without risking the lives of two million Americans and crushing our health care system. Ivanka’s fields of expertise, luxury and fashion, are falling off an economic cliff, so it’s hard to see what Donald’s favorite daughter can do to create any honest counterforce to this economic tsunami.
Back when Trump was publishing his first book, a commercial banker from Chicago told me you couldn’t believe or trust a word that came from him. Every report on what Trump says should contain the warning.
15 million jobs is twice the number created since Putin established drumpf as Czarina nearly 4 years ago.
Then, there is this….https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/481994-manufacturers-group-to-award-ivanka-trump
Since we have been shedding manufacturing jobs left and right, I have no idea what these clowns are celebrating the queen clown for.
Mr Newquist/ Cory, Jerry Fatwell Jr has had arrest warrants issued for a NYT photographer and a Pro-Publica writer for an unflattering story they did about Liberty U re-opening among corona virus pandemic.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/08/liberty-university-falwell-reporters-warrants-176346
Should journalists be concerned?
I guess then that all the jobs Ivanka created are now the folks that are unemployed, that is according the the jobs reports. So don’t blame the virus for the mass unemployment, blame Ivanka..well played trump, well played.
Ve hav vays of dealing vith those who qvestion the visdom of der Fuhrer.
Her lawyers have probably had to add staff to keep up with lawsuits against her; she’s probably created jobs that way.
Still trying to discern what religion Falwell claims.
Smothern Baptist, Debbo. At least Fatwell Sr was.
Maybe so. Sure not Southern Baptist because that’s a Christian denomination. A lot of those fakes like to call themselves “independent”, which means they can make up whatever they want and call themselves whatever they want.
He must be thinking of the jobs she created in China.