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Ronna McDaniel, you're fired.

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel just posted a tweet which I felt the need to expose and rebut.

In the tweet, McDaniel wrote, "Under @realDonaldTrump, our economy is finally working for ALL Americans.

Here's a 10-year challenge you haven't seen before."

The post also contained a side-by-side photo of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Under the two presidents were these words:

Under Obama
2009
Unemployment Rate: 9.9%
For Women: 8.7%
For Hispanics: 12.8%
For African Americans: 16.1%
GDP: -2.5%
Total Jobs Lost: 5.1 Million

Under Trump
2019
Unemployment Rate: 3.9%
For Women: 3.8%
For Hispanics: 4.4%
For African Americans: 6.6%
GDP: +3.0%
Total Jobs Gained: 2.6 Million

This is such an idiotic post, I shouldn't even have to respond to it, but sadly there are millions of people who buy into this crap.

Barack Obama took over as president in 2009. When he took the reigns, the United States was going through its biggest recession since the Great Depression. This started under the watch of Republican George W. Bush. So the numbers Ms. McDaniel posted with regard to Obama he inherited. He had less to do with those numbers than Mother Teresa had to do with the AIDS epidemic. The same can be said about the numbers she posted under Donald Trump. Trump took over in 2017. He inherited a strong economy. As a matter of fact, at least with job creation, the numbers have dipped some under President Trump. In any case, he can thank his predecessor, Barack Obama, for those strong numbers. For as unintentional as it may have been, Ronna McDaniel essentially paid President Obama quite a compliment with this post. "Under Obama" should have been titled "After W." and "Under Trump" should have been titled "After Obama." We'll see what "After Trump" looks like come 2021...

With the Super Bowl approaching us, allow me to make a football analogy. What Ronna McDaniel was basically saying with her tweet was that if a Cleveland Browns coach got fired after an 0-10 start to the season, the individual replacing him would be responsible for that 0-10 record and if that person improved the team to 10-0 the following year, but had to resign due to health reasons, the person to replace him would have been responsible for the 10-0 record. It's highly ironic that one of the GOP's most commonly used slogans is "We/I built that!" when it appears they only take credit for what others built. "Look at the economy! Trump built that!" No, he didn't, not even close...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ronna-mcdaniel-trump-obama_us_5c4e9c6ee4b06ba6d3be8e3a
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