President Trump used the ultimate speech of his presidency on Wednesday morning to repeat most of the identical falsehoods and exaggerations he inf
President Trump used the ultimate speech of his presidency on Wednesday morning to repeat most of the identical falsehoods and exaggerations he informed over the past 4 years.
He falsely claimed, as he has beforehand completed nearly 300 occasions, to have handed the “largest tax lower and reform within the historical past of our nation by far” regardless of the 2017 tax lower rating under a number of others.
Mr. Trump additionally boasted as soon as extra to have presided over the “best financial system,” with “numbers” that have been “at a degree that no one had ever seen earlier than.” Annual common progress, even earlier than the coronavirus pandemic decimated the financial system, was decrease beneath Mr. Trump than beneath latest former Presidents Invoice Clinton and Ronald Reagan.
And he heralded his legacy in remodeling the judiciary, exaggerating the variety of appointments to “nearly 300” and claiming that it was “record-setting.” In actuality, Mr. Trump appointed 229 judges, a big quantity for a one-term president however nicely under the entire quantity for Presidents Barack Obama (320), George W. Bush (322) and Invoice Clinton (322).
Mr. Trump additionally used his ultimate speech as president to as soon as once more wrongly take credit score for creating the Veterans Alternative well being care program that was signed into regulation by his predecessor in 2014. As president, Mr. Trump signed a measure making modifications to this system.
He additionally falsely claimed that the Division of Veterans Affairs couldn’t fireplace workers earlier than he took workplace. In actuality, Mr. Trump signed a regulation to encourage whistle-blowing and made it simpler to fireplace unhealthy workers on the division.