Trump’s alliterative “blue collar boom” shows his inherently better political instincts. That should be the “build the wall” of 2020, with crowds yelling: “Blue Collar BOOM! Blue Collar BOOM! Blue Collar BOOM!” It’s quite lyrical and would be like precision bombing right on the “Joe Sixpack” voters he needs to get again in the former “blue wall” states.
The Facts About Trump That Are Deadly For Democrats.
he Democrats didn’t like President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address because he highlighted data, such as the strong economy and record employment under his watch, they’d rather voters didn’t know. But those points were just a start. There’s much more about Trump that his opponents want to hide from the public.
The Democrats have stayed true to their talking points, calling Trump a “monster,” a “white supremacist,” and a “dictator” at every opportunity. While campaigning in New Hampshire, Joe Biden said the president “doesn’t have a shred of decency in him.” Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants to convince voters “this election is a decency check on this president.” Tom Steyer, who apparently didn’t wish to strain his vocabulary’s limits, simply says Trump is “a bad man.”
None of those charges would stick, though, if the electorate knew that:
- In 1986, Trump helped stop the foreclosure of Annabel Hill’s family farm in Georgia. He contributed $39,000 toward the money she needed to pay off the mortgage.
- Two years later, Trump sent his personal jet to fly 3-year-old Andrew Ten across the country for critical medical care after commercial airlines refused to allow his life-support system on board.
- In 2000, Trump gave a “generous” check to the family of a young girl named Megan, who was suffering from Brittle Bone Disease. He saw her on the Maury Povich show and was moved.
- Trump not only allowed actress Jennifer Hudson, who is black, and her family to stay free at his Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago after her mother and brother were murdered in 2008, he apparently increased security for them.
- Three years before winning the presidency, Trump gave a $10,000 check to bus driver Darnell Barton, who stopped a suicidal woman from jumping off an overpass in Buffalo.
- A year later, Trump wrote a $25,000 check to retired Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who had been in a Mexican jail for seven months. While carrying loaded weapons, he had made a wrong turn on a California freeway that forced him into the Tijuana port of entry with no way to turn back. Trump sent the money to help Tahmooressi “get back on his feet.”
These examples, which have been independently verified, were first compiled along with others at Townhall by Liz Crokin. As an entertainment journalist, Crokin “had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade,” and in all of those years, she “never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president.”
“Trump’s kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every sex, race and religion,” she wrote. “When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.”
Obama Promised A ‘Middle Class’ Economy, Trump Delivered It.
n his State of the Union address five years ago, President Barack Obama talked at length about what he called “middle-class economics.” After years of economic stagnation, he promised that the only thing needed to revive the economy was more middle-class benefits. The middle class has made substantial gains since then, but only because President Donald Trump ignored everything Obama said.
In Obama’s address, he described “middle-class economics” as “helping folks afford childcare, college, health care, a home, retirement.” In other words, still more federal middle-class entitlements and new mandates on employers (higher minimum wage, paid family leave, etc.).
Instead, Trump delivered tax cuts derided by the left as a giveaway to the rich, and deregulated measures that Democrats had claimed were pro-growth.
And when Trump addressed Congress last week, he rattled off a long list of economic gains that resulted from his break from Obama’s “middle-class economics.” It turns out that cutting taxes and regulations, not more government spending, is what the middle class needs.
Included in Trump’s list was the fact that the wealth of the bottom half of American households increased three times as fast as the “1%.”
“That’s true, according to Federal Reserve data,” said Reuters. “On average, Americans have seen a 17% jump in household wealth since Trump’s election, while wealth at the bottom half has increased 54%.” The top 1% has seen a gain of 13%.
Democrats have been complaining about increases in income inequality for years. How do they explain the fact that it’s declining under Trump?
The mainstream press found itself at pains to discredit other claims cited by Trump, and often resorted to picking nits in frustration. For example, the media labeled Trump’s claim that there’d been 7 million jobs created since he took office as “not true,” because the correct number was 6.6 million. Never mind that consensus forecast for job growth when Trump took office was 2 million.
Friday offered more good news for the middle class. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 225,000 jobs, far more than expected. A big winner: construction jobs, which accounted for 44,000.
Meanwhile, average hourly earnings rose 3.1% over a year ago, which also beat expectations, marking the 18th consecutive month of gains in excess of 3%. Under Obama’s “middle-class economics,” wage growth was mired at around 2%. (See chart below.)
h/t GR