Comments on: Acting Presidential Is A New Role For Trump

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:06:05 +0000

In reply to Mr.BD.

Honestly BD, I've always considered Van Jones to be just another political hack – even when he worked in the Obama administration.

I've never liked the guy.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:44:18 +0000

Oh and Van Jones I lost a lot of respect for him now

By: Mr. BD

Mr. BD — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:43:03 +0000

DJ and Truth both said it right. He was acting presidential. It was all a act and I'm not buying it. This is the reason he wanted to be president in the first place so he can play a role and get all the attention. He sounded ok in that speech even though he lied a lot. But he will be on twitter in a day or two back to his old tricks. Mark my words. Like that old saying goes you can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig. I was not impressed.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:06:04 +0000

"The most remarkable and awful moment came when {Trump} talked about the Navy SEAL killed in the botched Yemen raid and used the man’s widow as a political prop. It seemed shameful and tacky to exploit the grief of Owens’ family in a televised address to the country. It was even more distasteful because Trump has tried ducking responsibility for the raid he ordered by shifting blame to his predecessor and his generals, and he continues to claim that the raid was a success when all signs indicate that it was not." – Daniel Larison, TAC writer

But Van Jones was somehow impressed with that specific *act.* (rolling my eyes)

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:48:55 +0000

As per Factcheck.org…….

"The president distorted the facts on jobs, immigration, health insurance, war spending and more"

Summary

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump stuck closely to his prepared remarks, but ran afoul of the facts in some {major} cases.

– Trump said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6 trillion we could have rebuilt our country.” The amount spent so far is $1.7 trillion, according to the Defense Department.

– He cherry-picked the findings of a recent report, saying it found immigration costs U.S. taxpayers “billions of dollars a year.” The report said immigration “has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth.”

– Trump said “94 million Americans are out of the labor force,” a figure that includes the retired, college students and stay-at-home parents. The vast majority — 88.5 million — said they didn’t want a job.

Note: Of the 94.3 million who were counted as out of the labor force last year, 88.5 million said they didn’t want a job, according to annual figures from the Current Population Survey. Barely half a million — 553,000 — said they wanted a job but weren’t looking because they were discouraged about finding one.

– Trump said he would “promote clean air and clean water,” a vague claim that came hours after he had signed an executive order to roll back a 2015 “Clean Water Rule.”

– And the president repeated claims we’ve fact-checked before on border security, welfare, job creation since he was elected, health insurance and crime. For instance, he said the U.S. left “our own borders wide open, for anyone to cross.” But the border patrol budget and number of agents have both doubled since 2001.

Analysis

The false and misleading claims in Trump’s Feb. 28 address to Congress touched on familiar topics to fact-checkers, including the Middle East, the labor force, immigration and more.[…]

Complete Breakdown: "Trump’s Address to Congress"
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/trumps-address-t…