Sunday, January 7, 2018

Trump boasts of an achievement that’s entirely made up

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-boasts-achievement-thats-entirely-made
"Last week, Donald Trump adopted a new talking point, which the president apparently sees as proof of his greatness: he “broke “Harry Truman’s Record,” Trump wrote, for “Legislative Approvals.” The phrasing was awkward – in the United States, we don’t usually refer to “legislative approvals” – but I think he was trying to say he’s signed more bills into law than any president since Truman left office 65 years ago. Later that day, Trump repeated the claim when signing the Republican tax plan into law. “We have more legislative victories than any other president, not including this,” he said. “But this is the capper because this is, again, the biggest tax cut, the biggest reform of all time.” It’s actually the eighth biggest since 1918, and Trump doesn’t have more legislative victories than any other president. But he keeps repeating the line anyway."