The Trump Legacy

Redefining Reality

Democrats fail to find a way to counteract Trump’s constant torrent of lies and suffer humiliating election losses.

“Even if it was loaded, and, you know, that’s a weird thing, maybe he loaded it. Who would put a gun, ‘Here, Alec [Baldwin], here’s your gun,’ ‘Oh, good,’ lift it up, point it at a person, and pull the trigger, and, ‘Oh, man, a bullet came out,’ she’s dead. So there’s something wrong with him, he’s a sick guy.”

- Donald Trump

Last week the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that an estimated 531,000 jobs were created in October. Since Biden became president the economy has added 5,583,000 jobs. This is almost twice as many jobs as his predecessor lost. On his way to causing the loss of 2,876,000 jobs, Trump was also responsible for ending the streak of monthly job gains that started early in the Obama administration. When Trump left office the unemployment rate was 1.6 percentage points higher than when his term began. So much for being “the greatest jobs president that god ever created.”

On the same day that the October jobs numbers were released, Trump sent an email to “Go,” one of his “top supporters,” to whine about Biden’s “un-American [vaccine] mandate,” claiming that “our economy is HURTING.” Both claims are about as real as “Go,” as the courts have repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of vaccine mandates and a variety of economic indicators reflect that the economy is rebounding from the damage inflicted on it by the Trump administration. Not only were the latest employment indicators extremely positive, but the GDP is rising. Even Trump’s favorite indicator, the stock market, is at record highs.