The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Just the other day, I saw this tweet: "Why I’m voting for Donald Trump in 2020: - 4 million+ new jobs - 400 miles of Wall Built - 450,000 new manufactuing jobs - Biggest tax cuts in history - Median household income highest ever - 3.9 million Americans off food stamps It’s not about politics. It’s about results!" As I started to continually see this very tweet posted by numerous individuals, I soon realized the tweet had gone viral and it was time for me to research its claims. Here's what I found... "4 million+ new jobs" While it's true that over 4 million jobs have been created in "President" Trump's first 28 full months in the Oval Office, that doesn't tell the whole story. Here's the breakdown: In Donald Trump's first 28 full months as "president," 5.4 million jobs have been created. In Barack Obama's final 28 full months as president, 6.171 million jobs were created. In other words, Donald Trump...

So Celeste Katz of Newsweek  decided to write a piece the other day, entitled, "Trump Had Many Genuine Successes This Year, Despite Low Approval Rating," and I felt the need to comment on it. First off, let's look at the definition of the term accomplishment . According to the dictionary, accomplishment is defined as "something that has been achieved successfully." Based off that, let's now look at Ms. Katz's list of President Trump's supposed accomplishments: 1) "He got a new justice on the Supreme Court" "Trump promised on the campaign trail to appoint a conservative jurist to the highest court in the land as a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. He selected Neil Gorsuch, a Colorado federal appeals court judge who, at 49, was the youngest Supreme Court nominee since then-President George H. W. Bush nominated 43-year-old Clarence Thomas in 1991." So, in other words, Donald Trump's accomplishment here wa...