On Monday night, President Donald Trump shared a video on Instagram captioned, “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” — both celebrating the booming economy and throwing shade at former President Barack Obama.
The video starts in with a clip of Obama doubting Trump’s capabilities to bring back blue collar jobs that just “won’t come back.”
But the video featuring clips from Fox News and CNBC proves that under Trump, the economy is growing, and that more Americans are employed than ever before.
Watch the video here —
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“Some of those jobs from the past are just not gonna come back,” says Obama at the beginning of the video. “And when somebody says, ‘He’s gonna bring all these jobs back,’ well how exactly are you gonna do that? What are you gonna do? What magic wand do you have?”
The video quickly cuts over to Trump and the music in the background changes to an upbeat, and celebratory tune.
“We’ve created more than 400,000 — that’s very soon going to be 600,000 manufacturing jobs,” Trump says in the clip.
A economic report from Fox News is also featured in the video with Peter Morici, an economist, says “Growth during the Trump years has been far more robust. This year we should get up near three percent, that should put us about 50 percent above Mr. Obama’s performance.”
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow appeared on CNBC to give an economic report stating, “The economic boom continues; it’s the biggest story of 2018.” He added, “Jobs, growth, wages — it doesn’t get much better than that.”
It’s no secret that is economy is booming under the Trump presidency. The Hill reported, “Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell to a seasonally adjusted 203,000 for the week ending Sept. 1, a drop of 10,000 from the previous week, the lowest level since December 1969, the Labor Department said on Thursday.”
You read that correctly… unemployment claims have fallen to nearly a 50-year low.
As Kudlow mentions at the end of the video, “New policies are working.”
With Obama out of office, more Americans are employed, and wages are increasing. What more could anyone ask for?
–Kylie Handler is a news editor for The Horn News