{"id":1156,"date":"2017-03-10T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/trump-hypocrisy-on-job-numbers\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:06:00","slug":"trump-hypocrisy-on-job-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-hypocrisy-on-job-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Hypocrisy on Job Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama brought us the longest streak of private-sector job growth in history.  But Trump called the numbers fake, even when the Obama economy outperformed…
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\nTrump in March 2016<\/a>: The Jobs Report’s 5% Unemployment Rate Was “Obviously Not A Real Number.” 
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\nAnd said jobs created under Obama were bad.
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\nTrump in February 2016<\/a>: “You Can’t Give Credit” To President Obama For 4.9% Unemployment Because “It's A Phony Number…Plus, As You Have Probably Heard The Jobs Are Bad Jobs.”
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\nObama successfully worked to cut the unemployment rate in half. Trump lied and made up numbers that said the real unemployment rate was actually 20%+.
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\nTrump in November 2015<\/a>: “The 5.2 [Percent Unemployment] That You Reported About All The Time, That Is A Fictitious Number… It's Probably 22 Or 25-Percent Unemployment.”
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\nBut today, jobs numbers that are similar to those Trump derided during the Obama years are “great.”
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\nSpicer<\/a>: “Great News For American Workers: Economy Added 235,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.7% In First Report For @POTUSTrump”
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\nSpicer<\/a>: BLS Jobs Figures “May Have Been Phony In The Past, But It’s Very Real Now.”
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\n2012 Donald Trump would have called 2017 Donald Trump’s job numbers a failure.
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\nTrump in 2012<\/a>: “Today’s Job Report Is Not A Good Sign & We Could Be Facing Another Recession. No Real Job Growth. We Need Over 300K New Jobs A Month.”
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\nFebruary 2017<\/a>: Bureau of Labor and Statistics Report: The Economy Added 235,000 Jobs.<\/strong>
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