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Vanity Fair: Trump Disappointed That Parkland "Setback" Has Distracted from the Economy
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/trump-blames-school-shooting-for-distracting-from-how-great-the-economy-is-doingOn Monday, Donald Trump met with the nation’s governors for a discussion about school safety in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School—and unlike last week’s listening session, this time no one remembered to give him a cheat sheet for how humans communicate. Left to his own devices, the president told the group that he would have charged into the school to stop the attack with his bare hands, despite his history of debilitating bone spurs; that we need more “mental institutions” like they had “in the old days”; that he’d pay teachers 1,000 bucks a pop to come to school armed; and that “the N.R.A is on our side.” Naturally, he saved his best material for the big finish, in which he described the mass murder of 17 kids and adults as a “setback” from all the great news about the economy.
“So just in concluding,” the president said, “We have tremendous things happening. The country is doing well, and then we have a setback like this that’s so heart-wrenching. It’s so heart-wrenching. And we have to clean it up. We have to straight it out. You know, it’s wonderful we’re setting records on the economy. We’re setting records. Black unemployment at an all-time historical low. Hispanic unemployment at a historical low. Women unemployment at an 18-year low. Eighteen years. And, actually, I did very well with women during the election. Nobody wants to give me credit for that. To me, these are incredible statistics. And very importantly, we’re doing—our companies are doing well. The fundamentals are beyond what—literally beyond what anyone’s ever seen. This isn’t a bubble. You know there was bubbles in the past. Because these companies were valued and nobody understood—where is the money? Where is the money? And these are really strong companies we’re building now.”
To be clear, black unemployment has been on a steady decline since March 2010, when you-know-who was president, and it actually increased in January, as did the Hispanic unemployment rate. (Not to mention that white women are frequently credited—with astonishment, but credited still!—for getting Trump elected.) But mere facts are never enough to stop the president from loudly touting his economic successes at completely inappropriate moments, such as at a press conference after a woman was killed amid a white-nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville (“I’ve created over a million jobs since [becoming] president. The country is booming. The stock market is setting records. We have the highest employment numbers we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We’re doing record business”) or a speech to Boy Scouts of America (“I have to tell you our economy is doing great. Our stock market has picked up since the election, November 8—do we remember that day? Was that a beautiful day?”).
On the bright side, Trump, who clearly sees himself as the victim in all this, didn’t say anything about how the Dow would be at 27,000 if not for the Parkland massacre, though perhaps someone saw the words forming in his mouth and sent an electric shock pulsing through his body off-camera. But the night is still young, and there’s always Twitter.
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“So just in concluding,” the president said, “We have tremendous things happening. The country is doing well, and then we have a setback like this that’s so heart-wrenching. It’s so heart-wrenching. And we have to clean it up. We have to straight it out. You know, it’s wonderful we’re setting records on the economy. We’re setting records. Black unemployment at an all-time historical low. Hispanic unemployment at a historical low. Women unemployment at an 18-year low. Eighteen years. And, actually, I did very well with women during the election. Nobody wants to give me credit for that. To me, these are incredible statistics. And very importantly, we’re doing—our companies are doing well. The fundamentals are beyond what—literally beyond what anyone’s ever seen. This isn’t a bubble. You know there was bubbles in the past. Because these companies were valued and nobody understood—where is the money? Where is the money? And these are really strong companies we’re building now.”
To be clear, black unemployment has been on a steady decline since March 2010, when you-know-who was president, and it actually increased in January, as did the Hispanic unemployment rate. (Not to mention that white women are frequently credited—with astonishment, but credited still!—for getting Trump elected.) But mere facts are never enough to stop the president from loudly touting his economic successes at completely inappropriate moments, such as at a press conference after a woman was killed amid a white-nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville (“I’ve created over a million jobs since [becoming] president. The country is booming. The stock market is setting records. We have the highest employment numbers we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We’re doing record business”) or a speech to Boy Scouts of America (“I have to tell you our economy is doing great. Our stock market has picked up since the election, November 8—do we remember that day? Was that a beautiful day?”).
On the bright side, Trump, who clearly sees himself as the victim in all this, didn’t say anything about how the Dow would be at 27,000 if not for the Parkland massacre, though perhaps someone saw the words forming in his mouth and sent an electric shock pulsing through his body off-camera. But the night is still young, and there’s always Twitter.
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