On 2/5/2020, President Donald John Trump stood in front of Congress and the American people to take credit for things he did not do and to exaggerate the things he has done while in office. And once again, though he lied to the people’s faces, they cheered him for it.

First, he lied about the economy and the recovery. The recovery started way back in 2009, long before Trump took office. While it’s true our GDP has increased ever so slightly, it does not come close to the increase promised by Trump nor does it cover the tax cuts it was supposed to cover. The rich got richer again, as planned.

President Trump lied about the number of new jobs since he’s been in office and even if you allow for his inflated number it’s STILL a million jobs LESS than were created in Obama’s last 3 years of office.

Trump misrepresented unemployment. While it has fallen a little while he’s been in office, it has fallen no where near the amount it fell while Obama was in office and Trump walked into a historically low rate when he took office. In other words, things were already going the right way when he took over the wheel.

Trump claims that household wealth for the “bottom half of wage earners” increased at 3 times faster than for the 1% which is true but he fails to mention much of that increase is due to increase in minimum wage by STATES. He’s taking credit for places like California, Washington, New York, all who have instituted much higher than Federal minimum wage.

Trump claims that wages are rising fast but this worker is still making $20/hour (that’s $800/week!) LESS than he was before the collapse caused by the 1%.

Trump lied about household income. He claim’s it’s the highest it’s ever been but in fact it was a few hundred dollars more per year back in 1999.

Trump lied abut manufacturing jobs leaving the country. While half a million were created, our trade deficit INCREASED by 18% during the first two years of his administration, indicating more jobs left than were created.

Trump claims 12,000 factories were created since he’s been in office but the only data available shows 600 closed in 2017, his first year in office.

Remember everyone – you deserve to know the truth but the elected Republicans now in office have chosen “NO WITNESSES.”