{"id":1031078,"date":"2024-05-01T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1031078"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:47:16","slug":"fact-check-donald-trump-broke-his-promises-and-left-americas-working-class-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-donald-trump-broke-his-promises-and-left-americas-working-class-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Donald Trump Broke His Promises and Left America\u2019s Working Class Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Donald Trump pretending to care about workers and the middle class after leaving them behind, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best thing Donald Trump ever did for America\u2019s working class was leave the Oval Office after his horrendous four years that saw record job losses and billionaires paying less in taxes than working Americans for the first time in history. Nothing Trump says will change the fact that he repeatedly broke his promises to workers and is running on a failed MAGAnomics agenda designed to once again rig the economy for his billionaire buddies and leave America\u2019s middle class behind. Now Trump wants to double down on his toxic giveaways to the super rich because while he may be the best candidate for his special interest billionaire backers, he\u2019s not the candidate for hardworking Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s claims about workers don\u2019t stack up with his record of rigging the economy for the ultra-wealthy while leaving the middle class behind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shot: <\/strong>Trump<\/a>: \u201cWe’ve become the party of the worker, we’ve become the party of the middle income.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaser: <\/strong>Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cThey were billed as a \u2018middle-class miracle\u2019 but according to a new book Donald Trump\u2019s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post Analysis<\/a>: \u201cOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s lesser-known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.<\/strong> The financial burden that he\u2019s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump\u2019s time in office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post Analysis<\/a>: \u201cThe growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe nation\u2019s fiscal outlook looks ever bleaker, thanks in part to deficit spending during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term, Congress\u2019 nonpartisan budget scorekeeper projected Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump repeatedly broke his promises to workers across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it\u2019s gone for good\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised this Wisconsin town a manufacturing boom. It never arrived.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox Business<\/a>: \u201cElectric truck company touted by Trump as ‘an incredible concept’ files for bankruptcy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit Free Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump, tweets couldn’t save U.S. auto jobs in 2017\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn March 2017, [Trump] praised General Motors when he flew to Detroit to highlight the importance of American manufacturing. That same day, GM announced plans for 900 new or retained jobs in Michigan within 12 months. This week, GM confirmed a net loss of 3,500 hourly manufacturing jobs in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLive<\/a>: \u201cOn the 2016 campaign trail in Warren, Trump pledged \u2018you won\u2019t lose one plant\u2019 if he were elected. GM announced last year it would end production at five North American plants.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAfter Years of Growth, Automakers Are Cutting U.S. Jobs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s trade war against China didn\u2019t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump owns the worst jobs record in modern American history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortune<\/a>: \u201cTrump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump took office at the crest of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. He leaves presiding over the worst labor market in modern U.S. history, as an already-sputtering economic recovery has turned negative.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Jobs Record Fell Short of Promises Even Before the Virus\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Trump promised to stop offshoring, his tax giveaways for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations created new incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump\u2019s Watch\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised \u2018America First\u2019 would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump won the U.S. presidency four years ago, in part, by a promise to Midwest factory workers that he would stop companies like Schneider Electric SE from moving jobs out of the country. He didn\u2019t stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump rooted for the economy to crash to help his political standing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cAnd when there\u2019s a crash \u2014 I hope it\u2019s going to be during this next 12 months because I don\u2019t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don\u2019t want to be, Herbert Hoover.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump admitted Monday that he wants a severe economic downturn to happen during the next year, because it will help his odds of winning the presidential election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump pretending to care about workers and the middle class after leaving them behind, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: \u201cThe best thing Donald Trump ever did for America\u2019s working class was leave the Oval Office after his horrendous four years that saw record job losses and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFACT CHECK: Donald Trump Broke His Promises and Left America\u2019s Working Class Behind - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-donald-trump-broke-his-promises-and-left-americas-working-class-behind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-01T23:15:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T13:47:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-donald-trump-broke-his-promises-and-left-americas-working-class-behind\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-check-donald-trump-broke-his-promises-and-left-americas-working-class-behind\/\",\"name\":\"FACT CHECK: Donald Trump Broke His Promises and Left America\u2019s Working Class Behind - 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