White House Mocked for Inaccurate First 100 Days Accomplishments List
‘Oh. My. God. This Is Catastrophically Wrong’
Once again the Trump White House is being mocked and attacked on social media after posting on its website a listing of the President’s first 100 days accomplishments. As usual with the Trump White House, there are many incorrect facts displaying both their incompetence and unfamiliarity with basic facts of American history, and some outright lies, like taking credit for President Barack Obama’s accomplishments.
“In his first 100 days, President Donald J. Trump has taken bold action to restore prosperity, keep Americans safe and secure, and hold government accountable,” the mini-site on the White House claims. “At an historic pace, this President has enacted more legislation and signed more executive orders than any other president in over a half century,” which many dispute.
“With a focus on rebuilding the military, ending illegal immigration, and restoring confidence in our economy, the President is keeping his promises to the American people,” which, again, many say is just false.Â
In a series of tweets, Peter A. Shulman, an Associate Professor of History at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University, dissects some of the claims, first by saying, “Oh. My. God. This is catastrophically wrong.”
There’s also a White House email that, among other claims, says FDR signed just 9 executive orders. Shulman notes it was 99.
One catastrophically wrong item, the very first – a claim the Trump administration has created “over 500,000 new jobs.”
Sean Spicer at Tuesday’s daily press briefing touted the new list, while attacking Democrats for obstruction.
.@PressSec Sean Spicer discusses President #Trump‘s first 100 days: “The president has rebuilt America’s standing in the world.” pic.twitter.com/re9NhZVcvG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 25, 2017
ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum notes the Trump count includes jobs created under President Obama:
2. But 216,000 of these jobs were CREATED IN JANUARY. Trump didn’t even become president until January 20.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 25, 2017
Looking at the Trump administration’s claim that FDR signed only 9 executive orders – which reflects a stunning lack of knowledge of American history – Prof. Shulman tweets:
Counting all of FDR’s orders in his First 100 Days, he actually issued 99 of them. Or, more than 10 times the number Trump claims.
— Peter A. Shulman (@pashulman) April 25, 2017
A few examples:
NIRA created the National Recovery Administration for industrial governance, but also the Public Works Administration to build stuff and.. pic.twitter.com/pUVp6Y6QTw
— Peter A. Shulman (@pashulman) April 25, 2017
The creation of the Home Owners Loan Corporation, repealing Prohibition, and suspending the Gold Standard.
— Peter A. Shulman (@pashulman) April 25, 2017
Raw Story notes President Trump “has gone through his first 100 days without any major legislative accomplishments, and an Associated Press analysis has found that he’s accomplished fewer than half of the things that he pledged to do in his first 100 days.”
The White House tweeted out the list Tuesday. Some responses:
In his first #100Days, @POTUS has renewed prosperity, safety and security, and government accountability. See more: https://t.co/UamYZsu4gF pic.twitter.com/Tcaui1cZrm
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 25, 2017
@WhiteHouse @POTUS War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength. pic.twitter.com/D9Zk4Xh7V6— Richard Hine (@richardhine) April 25, 2017
@wellturned @peterknox @WhiteHouse @POTUS #100daysofshame
— CaptainCj (@Casperventer) April 25, 2017
Senate Democrats decided to re-write trump’s re-write of history. Major trolling here:
Inbox from Senate Dems: “The White House release on President Trump’s First 100 Days Had Some Errors In It. We Fixed Them.” pic.twitter.com/VshM4FmSdi
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 25, 2017
Aside from the obvious factual errors, which are both embarrassing and a dangerous attempt to re-write history, there are just so many opportunities to mock both the list and the President, Twitter just couldn’t not help themselves.
The first 100 days don’t matter — also here’s a website we made about our accomplishments. pic.twitter.com/TF6QKxf7m2
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) April 25, 2017
So @realDonaldTrump has a republican house and senate yet the W.H. Released this… his accomplishments his first 100 days. WRONG. pic.twitter.com/6IP7HP7CTO
— Δdamî€ (@awyeahadam) April 25, 2017
@realDonaldTrump make sure you claim this as your great accomplishments in first 100 days! https://t.co/ZsRvGKUDT3
— Rich 2 (@richardrichey) April 25, 2017
It’s like @PressSec is reporting for The Onion in his outlining of the accomplishments of the first 100 days.
— Donna L Banks (@donna_L_banks) April 25, 2017
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