Trump lies

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It is really pretty blatant..

For example, in the six full months that Trump has been in office – February 2017 to July 2017 – the economy added 1.07 million jobs. That’s not bad. But over a comparable period last year – February 2016 to July 2016 – the economy added 1.24 million jobs. For the comparable period the year before – February 2015 to July 2015 – the economy added 1.37 million jobs. For the comparable period the year before that – February 2014 to July 2014 – the economy added 1.51 million jobs. For the comparable period the year before that – February 2013 to July 2013 – the economy added 1.17 million jobs. In other words, Trump and his Republican allies are impressed that the economy created a million jobs over the first six months of Trump’s presidency. What they don’t appear to realize is that these are the weakest job numbers over the same period in five years.

The part of the job numbers Team Trump doesn't want to talk about | MSNBC

• He is now touting job numbers that are actually worse than the numbers before his presidency, which he called totally fake news (he argued that the real unemployment rate was 42%, see below).
  
• He claims credit for the job numbers even if he hasn't instigated any major policies which would affect them in any significant way.
  

In case you doubted:

We may assume President Trump is quite pleased with the strong jobs report from his first full month in office: He retweeted the Drudge Report's triumphant “GREAT AGAIN” framing of the numbers Friday morning, after touting employment figures released by payroll firm ADP earlier in the week. Not so long ago, however, Trump's view of the monthly jobs report, which comes courtesy of the nonpartisan federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was markedly different. As recently as December, he described the report as “totally fiction.” 

If there was any argument over whether Trump was flip-flopping on the jobs report at the precise moment it reflected positively on him, White House press secretary Sean Spicer laid it to rest Friday afternoon, telling reporters: “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.' ”

19 times Trump called jobs numbers ‘fake’ before they made him look good - The Washington Post

The article found 19 cases where Trump argues the numbers are fake. He hasn't been making that argument since his election, while the numbers are still produced in the same way, by the same bureau..