Mike Pence’s ‘Gaslighting’ Boast About Record Jobs Creation Backfires
Jaws collectively dropped on Twitter over Vice President Mike Pence’s latest boast about the number of jobs created during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Pence on Wednesday told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Trump had “seen us through the worst pandemic in 100 years” and “we’ve already created more jobs in the last three months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their eight years in office.”
Check out Pence’s comments here:
We’ve created more jobs in the last 3 months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their 8 years in office. pic.twitter.com/kwk5YhL3TJ
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) August 13, 2020
People on Twitter pointed out problems with Pence’s brag.
Several accused the vice president of “gaslighting” and noted an administration does not create the jobs itself.
Other critics highlighted how millions of workers have lost jobs and the economy has shrunk by record levels during the coronavirus pandemic, in part thanks to the Trump administration’s disastrous response:
You destroyed 40 million jobs, and got about half back.
That is a lot of jobs you "created" in the past three months.
But only because you destroyed a lot more before that. https://t.co/UnniPizaI9— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) August 13, 2020
The best way to make a small fortune in the movie business is to start with a large fortune. https://t.co/iIE0Xye6Ky
— Aditya Sood (@adityasood) August 13, 2020
If you don’t understand what’s decieptful about this tweet, you deserve every last thing these people have done to you.
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) August 13, 2020
Lawyers defending members of the administration don’t count.
— Devin Nunes’ cow (@DevinCow) August 13, 2020
People going back to work is not job creation
— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) August 13, 2020
In the same way, Germany and Japan built a lot of new housing after their cites were flattened in World War II https://t.co/POyXTx3CFd
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 13, 2020
