Trump Complains Media Doesn’t Care About His ‘Great Job Numbers’: ‘Only Russia, Russia, Russia’
It’s Saturday and President Donald Trump is angry again on Twitter.
In a predictable weekend tweetstorm, Trump voiced his outrage that the media was not focusing on his “great job numbers” and are instead too obsessed with “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
“Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages- and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year of looking, there is No Collusion!” Tweeted Trump.
Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages- and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year of looking, there is No Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
The president went on to tweet a full excerpt of a Wall Street Journal piece regarding the infamous House Intelligence Committee Republican memo, as he seemingly cannot figure out how screenshots work.
“The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
…a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law….The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2018
Despite Trump’s constant bragging about employment numbers under his administration, per stats circulated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current administration’s first year in office actually reflected the lowest job creation rate since 2011.
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