Omg … who did this? đ
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) February 3, 2020
Lego White House at a mall has Donald Trump in handcuffs. pic.twitter.com/brrDxprFrU
Month: February 2020
Manufacturing jobs are declining
Another Trump lie. Sad!
Alternative fact: President Trump claims to have restored Americaâs manufacturing might.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) February 5, 2020
Reality: America manufacturing index is at its lowest point since 2009. #SOTU2020https://t.co/jTEdSGg81M
There's a reason Trump is talking about the number of *factories* not factory *jobs* https://t.co/6dsMRSpPQs pic.twitter.com/6l6Ttz8jNU
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 5, 2020
#SOTU fact check: Trump said âwe are restoring our nation's manufacturing might.â
— POLITICO (@politico) February 5, 2020
The U.S. manufacturing sector actually slid into a decline last year, with 12,000 jobs lost in December compared to the month before, notes our trade reporter @mmcassella.https://t.co/32A4busdvO pic.twitter.com/oWfw3aP6qa
Snapshot of Trumpâs âmanufacturing renaissanceâ: the sectorâs share of the economy is now the smallest in 72 years of data. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/Vn2ShIzLTG
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) February 5, 2020
This is extremely misleading. There was a net decline in manufacturing jobs under Obama-Biden, but almost all of it happened during the recession they inherited in 2009. There was an increase every year from 2010 through 2015. Official data: https://t.co/t8HU3Ses5S pic.twitter.com/Z3ulc1pmRF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 22, 2019
Blue-collar hiring in the U.S. has slowed to a trickle: Rex Nutting https://t.co/AHTj9YrlyZ
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) February 7, 2020
Trump lies during the State of the Union address
Here are fact checks and comments:
Fact Checks
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2020
A team of our reporters who cover the economy, national security, health care and more will be fact-checking President Trump's claims during the State of the Union address. Follow along here. https://t.co/va51u3a81B
fact checking the SOTUhttps://t.co/FokwFdXwAY
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 5, 2020
31 false and misleading claims! –> Fact-checking President Trumpâs 2020 State of the Union address https://t.co/vPUwZSyb6H
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 5, 2020
This conduct has been normalized which is tragic.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 5, 2020
Read this headline below again and consider that this is The President of the United States. https://t.co/bQqPqWtHIl
Last night @realDonaldTrump came before Congress and the American people and made up a series of lies. That was unbecoming, violated tradition & was offensive.
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 5, 2020
And right now the Administration is still suing to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions.#WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/nXE1sFk2bc
A pathological liar has a huge rhetorical advantage over rivals who are too timid to call lying by its rightful name
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) February 5, 2020
"How do you qualify something as a good speech if it's fed by lies?" —@JoeNBC pic.twitter.com/kSkxnkEHhe
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 5, 2020
Why are Trump's nonstop lies to Congress during his SOTU speech being treated as less of a breach of "decorum" than @SpeakerPelosi's ripping up of his speech is?https://t.co/3C4RscHgot
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 5, 2020
Perhaps the biggest lie President Trump told tonight was his claim he'll protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 5, 2020
His admin is in court trying to take those protections away.
The only way he can truly protect people with pre-existing conditions is to drop the lawsuit now.
"drew on falsehoods." They will bend over backwards to not call a lie a lie. This is just embarrassing levels of equivocation https://t.co/F0WDrWYQtu
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) February 5, 2020
Rick Santorum is saying on CNN right now that Trump isn't lying when he says he wants to protect pre-existing conditions. The other 6 panelists are shaking their heads, rolling their eyes & pushing back. The problem, though, is CNN inviting Santorum on to keep spewing lies on air
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 5, 2020
Trump lied less on the economy tonight than he has before. I counted single-digit lies. There were at least 22 in a speech on the economy he gave in November. @YahooFinance documented them: https://t.co/GGVlxkcWJm pic.twitter.com/wOAk8f8SZ7
— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) February 5, 2020
WATCH: @SteveRattner fact checks Pres. Trump's #SOTU claims on the economy.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 6, 2020
"Anyway you slice it â this is at best a continuation of the Obama recovery, and at worst, a slower version of the Obama recovery."https://t.co/IgFm0151VZ
Trump and Deutsche Bank
Very thorough article in the New York Times.
On a slow news days when nothing else is happening, the New York Times drops the 411 on Trump and Deutsche Bank https://t.co/Sk5JBdNplX
— Will Bunch đ (@Will_Bunch) February 4, 2020
Trump adds Nigeria and other countries to his travel ban.
This is just racism.
There's a lot going on in America and the world, so I'm really glad @jbouie wrote this column on the blatant racism of Trump's latest travel ban and its historical precedents.https://t.co/TFRVXHlXO0
— Max Strasser (@maxstrasser) February 4, 2020
Nigerian immigrants are by far the most educated immigrant group in the US. Over 20% have *graduate* degrees. But… They're also black.
— Mekka Okereke (@mekkaokereke) February 1, 2020
So due to the "travel ban" Nigerians will no longer be allowed to get green cards.
The ban was never about security.https://t.co/WMeZXxmOqB
Looking for facts on Nigerian immigrants in the U.S.? More? See our new fast facts post: https://t.co/Q6M9MZupxJ @pewresearch
— Mark Hugo Lopez (@mhugolopez) February 4, 2020
It's a sign of how crazy the news cycle is right now that the United States three days ago barred immigration from the largest economy in Africa–a quarter of the continent's population is now barred from the US–and almost nobody is talking about it. https://t.co/u9fUUNEvnn
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 3, 2020
the only explanation for adding Nigeria to the travel ban is as an act of racial control https://t.co/d75Dlqu4Dr
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 3, 2020
Of course not. Most of the African countries on Trumpâs list are Muslim majority countries. And we should all be pushing back against the Muslim ban.
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) February 1, 2020
But Nigeriaâs religion isnât the issue here.
Trump just doesnât want Nigerians. Heâs said it. Period. https://t.co/W7UqwHyDy0
Is anyone surprised that Trump kicked off the new year by prohibiting the largest population on the African continent from emigrating to the United States?
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) February 1, 2020
NIGERIA.
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) January 31, 2020
The largest black population in the world. A large Muslim population. A US ally, and one of the most important economies in Africa.
Trump's comments about African nations being sh*thole countries were not just words. He was foreshadowing actual policy direction. https://t.co/uq2ib9tNMS
As a Nigerian-American, I canât help but see connections between xenophobia & anti-black racism as a through-line in the latest #TravelBan. Thanks @CNNOpinionfor the space to share about how this #MuslimBan sets back racial justice movements https://t.co/fqBwYc2MeV #AfricaBan
— OPAL TOMETI (@opalayo) February 5, 2020
Trump doesn’t admit he’s wrong
Susan Collins is a fool if she thinks Trump has learned from the impeachment. He’ll just become bolder since the Senate won’t hold him accountable. Trump is incapable of admitting he is wrong. The Senate will acquit him tomorrow which is disgraceful. More evidence will trickle out to confirm Trump’s guilt. Trump will probably get foreign help in the election since he thinks that’s fine. If he wins, there’s no way to respect or trust the results now. Sad!
Susan Collins says Trump's learned his lesson from impeachment. Here are 75 times he said he'd done nothing wrong. https://t.co/qQZpGd3W0c
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 4, 2020
Asked about Sen. Susan Collins saying heâd learned a lesson, Trump told the anchors he did not agree. He had done nothing wrong. âIt was a perfect call.â https://t.co/CNJmi46w7A
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 5, 2020
Asked why heâs confident Trump wonât ask for another foreign probe, Senate Majority Whip John Thune told me: âI just think that this whole experience has been instructive for everybody and I think you have a new president with methods that are built around a set of experiences…
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 5, 2020
Just spoke with Sen. Collins
— Gregg Lagerquist (@GreggWGME) February 5, 2020
She now says she probably shouldn't have said that she "believes" Pres. Trump has learned his lessons from the fallout from his dealings with Ukraine and #Impeachment
She now says a better word would have been "hopes"#mepolitics pic.twitter.com/k5pC3nrVsc
Republican Sen. Tim Scott on if Trump should be apologetic about the Ukraine call: "The president will not be apologetic. He does not see the same facts that I do. I think he thinks it was a perfect call. … I don't know that you should expect anything different" pic.twitter.com/wyufZtMK0v
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 5, 2020
Sad! 