I will create a million billion jobs.

During the election, Donald Trump spoke as if he had a secret method for creating new jobs. As it turns out, he does. That formula: just lie about it.

On Tuesday, Exxon announced that it will spend $20 billion over the course of a decade at 11 proposed and existing refining and chemical manufacturing sites. In the process, the company anticipates adding more than 45,000 jobs.

Trump not only took credit for the jobs, he even stole Exxon’s press release for his own.

Donald Trump's White House runs like a well-oiled machine, and they're not going to spend extra effort coming up with these things themselves when they can outsource the corporate praise to the corporation they're praising.

Like the press release, the jobs aren’t new. Exxon first announced them in 2012. Then again in 2014. Then in 2016. If they announce them a few more times, just think how many jobs Donald Trump can take credit for creating! And of course, the Exxon jobs aren’t the only jobs that were already there, but which Trump has put his PR pen behind.

He’s taken credit for recent announcements about new jobs at Fiat-Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, and Walmart, yet none of these can be directly attributed to his administration and instead were all mostly in the works before his election.

And the job lies are matched by his cost-cutting lies.