April Fools' Day may have been yesterday and only be celebrated once a year, but co-host of Fox News' The Five, Eric Bolling, seems to practice the holiday on any day ending in -y. On a recent episode of The Five, Bolling, along with fellow co-hosts Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, and Juan Williams got into the following discussion:
Bolling: "The first quarter in the books yesterday or today, right? Last day of the quarter. So we did a little bit of a scorecard going -- comparing the Trump administration to Obama one quarter in. Consume confidence --"
Dana Perino: "That's not fair."
Bolling: "-- to 27. Look at these numbers; it's insane."
Perino: "That's not fair."
Bolling: "Take it full screen again. Here, how about this unemployment rate? 4.7 to 8.3. How about this one? Average home price, oh my gosh --"
Perino: "So unfair."
Bolling: "-- it's not even close. $390,000 versus $258 and --"
Greg Gutfeld: "This is essentially all from Obama."
Bolling: "$26 an hour average hourly wage versus $22 Obama."
Perino: "You could actually change it to "Obama" and "Bush."
Bolling: "I am going to, go ahead."
Juan Williams: "It's a good thing you don't talk about approval numbers, let's see how Obama was doing less than a hundred days in."
Perino: "That's a good point Juan."
Bolling: "We're getting so tired of winning."
This has to be the stupidest pro-Trump/anti-Obama I've heard to this point in my life. Barack Obama exited the Oval Office 2.5 months ago after spending 8 years there. Donald Trump has taken over the reigns these past 2.5 months. Like Dana Perino stated, the chart could (should) have read Obama and Bush, not Trump and Obama, and while Eric Bolling may not realize it, while he was trying to make Donald Trump appear superior to Barack Obama, what he unintentionally did was showcase how good of a president Barack Obama was. Here's how the chart actually read:
When Obama's tenure started:
- Consumer Confidence: 27
- Unemployment rate: 8.3%
- Average Home Price: $258,000
- Average Hourly Wages: $22.00 per hour
When Obama's tenure ended:
- Consumer Confidence: 126 (increase of 99)
- Unemployment rate: 4.7% (decrease of 3.6%)
- Average Home Price: $390,400 (increase of $132,400)
- Average Hourly Wages: $26,00 per hour (increase of $4.00 per hour)
In addition to Bolling accidentally showcasing how effective of a president Barack Obama was, he also disproved Donald Trump's claim that he was handed a "mess." As the chart showed, if anyone was handed a mess, it was Barack Obama.
Given Bolling's logic, or lack there of, if UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma called it quits after this year and his replacement took over a national championship-worthy team, going 30-4 in the process, Bolling would say, "Look, Auriemma may have won 11 national championships, but in his first year, his team was 12-15, and this new guy went 30-4, so this new guy is obviously a better coach than Auriemma!" No, the only obvious thing here is Eric Bolling is an idiot.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/03/31/watch-fox-host-get-ridiculed-his-sad-attempt-give-trump-credit-obama-economy/215884
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geno_Auriemma
Bolling: "The first quarter in the books yesterday or today, right? Last day of the quarter. So we did a little bit of a scorecard going -- comparing the Trump administration to Obama one quarter in. Consume confidence --"
Dana Perino: "That's not fair."
Bolling: "-- to 27. Look at these numbers; it's insane."
Perino: "That's not fair."
Bolling: "Take it full screen again. Here, how about this unemployment rate? 4.7 to 8.3. How about this one? Average home price, oh my gosh --"
Perino: "So unfair."
Bolling: "-- it's not even close. $390,000 versus $258 and --"
Greg Gutfeld: "This is essentially all from Obama."
Bolling: "$26 an hour average hourly wage versus $22 Obama."
Perino: "You could actually change it to "Obama" and "Bush."
Bolling: "I am going to, go ahead."
Juan Williams: "It's a good thing you don't talk about approval numbers, let's see how Obama was doing less than a hundred days in."
Perino: "That's a good point Juan."
Bolling: "We're getting so tired of winning."
This has to be the stupidest pro-Trump/anti-Obama I've heard to this point in my life. Barack Obama exited the Oval Office 2.5 months ago after spending 8 years there. Donald Trump has taken over the reigns these past 2.5 months. Like Dana Perino stated, the chart could (should) have read Obama and Bush, not Trump and Obama, and while Eric Bolling may not realize it, while he was trying to make Donald Trump appear superior to Barack Obama, what he unintentionally did was showcase how good of a president Barack Obama was. Here's how the chart actually read:
When Obama's tenure started:
- Consumer Confidence: 27
- Unemployment rate: 8.3%
- Average Home Price: $258,000
- Average Hourly Wages: $22.00 per hour
When Obama's tenure ended:
- Consumer Confidence: 126 (increase of 99)
- Unemployment rate: 4.7% (decrease of 3.6%)
- Average Home Price: $390,400 (increase of $132,400)
- Average Hourly Wages: $26,00 per hour (increase of $4.00 per hour)
In addition to Bolling accidentally showcasing how effective of a president Barack Obama was, he also disproved Donald Trump's claim that he was handed a "mess." As the chart showed, if anyone was handed a mess, it was Barack Obama.
Given Bolling's logic, or lack there of, if UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma called it quits after this year and his replacement took over a national championship-worthy team, going 30-4 in the process, Bolling would say, "Look, Auriemma may have won 11 national championships, but in his first year, his team was 12-15, and this new guy went 30-4, so this new guy is obviously a better coach than Auriemma!" No, the only obvious thing here is Eric Bolling is an idiot.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/03/31/watch-fox-host-get-ridiculed-his-sad-attempt-give-trump-credit-obama-economy/215884
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geno_Auriemma
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