In a tweet Saturday evening, President Donald Trump warned Americans that ājobs will disappear!ā if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected.
Millions of jobs have already disappeared during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus crisis. In the second quarter, the U.S. economy shrank by 9.5%, a historically bad drop.
Biden is not in the White House.
During the last three years of former President Barack Obamaās administration, the economy created more jobs than it did during its best year under Trump.
Critics on Twitter couldnāt quite believe what they read.
āBiden to raise taxes by 3 Trillion Dollars.ā Actually, it will be much more than that, and much of it on nonsense. Markets and your 401kās will CRASH. Jobs will disappear!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2020
You already made the jobs disappear, sweetie. pic.twitter.com/AqXPev5Xc7
— Jedi, Interrupted š³ļøš (@JediCounselor) August 1, 2020
What jobs? You know we can read the paper. Why can't you?
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) August 1, 2020
— scientific realm š§¬ (@scientificrealm) August 1, 2020
You already crashed the economy, bud. https://t.co/N1jABkmjSA
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) August 1, 2020
"Jobs will disappear," says the guy who wiped out all of the job gains since the Great Recession.
— Paul š» (@pablo_honey1) August 1, 2020
GDP decreased 34.3 percent- more than twice the drop that occurred during the Great Depression
— stevegreenberg (@stevegreenberg) August 2, 2020
You canāt have economic prosperity without effective public health. The failure to contain this virus has handed The rest of this century over to China to rule
Biden wants to raise taxes on the billionaires, so that the middle class and lower classes can have health care and a higher minimum wage. Meanwhile you cut taxes for the ultra wealthy so that your friends could have better lives at the expense of the middle class.
— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) August 1, 2020
Have you read a newspaper lately?
— Benjamin Byron Davis (@Tooda) August 2, 2020
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