TRUMP ENDS TERM WITH A HORDE OF LIES OF ‘ACCOMPLISHMENTS’

President Donald Trump made false claims from the first hours of his term to the last. Trump repeated some of his favorite falsehoods in both his farewell video address released and in his final speech at Joint Base Andrews, Daniel Dale reported for CNN.

He lied about the number of judges he had appointed, claimed to have passed the Veterans Act that former President Barack Obama signed into law, bragged about the US being the world’s top oil producer when this was achieved in 2012 under Obama, boasted about erecting 450 miles of border wall with Mexico when only 47 miles were built, and insisted he had amassed a record 75 million votes in the 2020 presidential elections when the final tally showed he got only 74.2 million votes and lost to President Joe Biden, who garnered the historic high of more than 81 million votes, beating Trump by more than 7 million votes, as confirmed by Tara Subramaniam.

Trump insisted he reduced the unemployment rates for African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latin and Hispanic Americans when the facts show otherwise. Dale reports that Trump leaves office with 3 million less jobs when he took office in 2016, the worst record for a US President in the post-World War II era.

Trump claimed in both the farewell video and his final speech to have passed the largest tax cuts in US history. Dale said facts show “Trump's 2017 tax cuts were not the largest in American history. There have been bigger tax cuts whether you measure in inflation-adjusted dollars or as a share of the national economy.

Tax cuts in 1981, 2010, and 2013 were larger, both in inflation-adjusted dollars or as a share of the economy. As a share of the economy, there were even others that were bigger, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a think tank focused on fiscal policies.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed in 2017 under Trump, provided for cuts that are among the largest in nominal terms, but even then, they are still smaller than tax cuts passed in 2013, Katie Lobosco reported.

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