Donald Trump is selling out American jobs and workers. Since his inauguration, according to our TrumpEconomy.com project, 5,606 Ohio jobs have been eliminated or outsourced; 1,895 positions have ended in New Jersey; 1,357 vanished in Indiana; 2,008 Georgia employees were told they’ll soon be jobless. And over 2,420 new layoffs were announced in Michigan.

Fifty days into his presidency, one thing is clear: Trump economics aren't working. In total, there have been 34,137-and-counting announced layoffs. And President Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE still hasn't proposed a comprehensive plan to save jobs and stimulate growth.

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These are figures worth remembering in the context of today's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report. Because when Trump, as is likely, takes credit for job creation he had nothing to do with and promises to bring back outsourced jobs, he shouldn’t be allowed to gloss over the thousands of layoffs and jobs lost to trade on his watch. This isn’t complicated: Trump can’t accept credit for one and duck blame for the other.

“Buy American and hire American” was a nice applause line during Trump’s address to Congress last week. But it doesn’t reflect Trump’s own business history. Nor is it representative of Trump’s earliest actions as president. Case in point: Trump waiving his “Buy American” requirement for the Keystone XL pipeline. Here’s another: Trump has yet to take action to catalyze U.S. job growth. Where’s the large-scale infrastructure investment Trump campaigned on and promised again and again?

As far back as Trump’s campaign announcement speech, his history of outsourcing production and importing foreign workers sullied his “bring back jobs” promises. And since Inauguration Day, Trump companies have continued to import foreign labor — building on the over 1,250 foreign workers Trump has hired instead of Americans since 2001.

When not bringing in foreign workers, Trump shipped the manufacturing of his Trump-branded products overseas. And when not doing that, Trump built his buildings with Chinese — rather than American — steel.

But back to the job creation claims. Since Election Day, President Trump has repeatedly taken credit for months-in-the-making job announcements: 50,000 jobs from SoftBank; 25,000 IBM jobs; a Kentucky plant that Ford never intended to close; 2,000 Fiat-Chrysler jobs; “saving” Monsanto and 10,000 U.S. positions — the list goes on. This week, the administration appeared to copy-and-paste a press release from ExxonMobile after the president had lunch with the secretary of State, a former ExxonMobile CEO.

The quintessential example of Trump taking undeserved credit for a job announcement is with respect to the Carrier Corporation. In late November, Trump suggested he personally stopped Carrier’s offshoring of 1,400 jobs. The reality was more complicated: Trump had nothing to do with the deal, other than enlisting Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceGOP short of votes on Trump's controversial Fed pick Pence seeks to boost Daines in critical Montana Senate race The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy MORE to help gift Carrier $7 million in tax cuts. Meanwhile, at least 600 of the 1,400 workers were still laid off. And Carrier has subsequently announced that some of the 800 “saved” will be replaced with automation.

All Trump did was broker a $7 million taxpayer-shouldered payout to a company with a history of taking taxpayer dollars then outsourcing jobs — a company that then continued to lay off workers and ship jobs overseas. If Trump thinks he got a bargain, it’s no wonder he went bankrupt six times.

Donald Trump and his administration cannot be taken at their word; on jobs or any other issue — Russia meetings come to mind, but economic data may be a concern as well. So when Trump spins job losses (and tax gifts to outsourcers) as successes, or falsely claims credit for jobs he didn’t create, he needs to be called on it.

Of course, Trump promised to be the “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” and he’ll continue to take undeserved credit to live up to that pledge. But as Trump does so, he must similarly be forced to own losses; it’s still Trump’s economy when Americans are being laid off.

Donald Trump inherited a strong economy — far from the “mess” he claims — and it’s time to see what he can do other than stiff small business owners, outsource, bust unions, scam “novice investors," and set up Wall Street banks to prey on America's working families.

For starters, Trump needs to take responsibility for the over 34,137 jobs, according to our count, gone since he took the oath of office. And then he needs to come up with a real economic agenda that isn't rooted in empty rhetoric and enriches the wealthy at the expense of Americans working hard to get ahead.

David Brock is the chairman of American Bridge, a progressive research and communications organization.

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