In my view, this is a classic case of the left and their counterparts in the media lying. Not Trump.
Watch what he actually said, in context. Why doesn't the article quote him in full? Because they want to paint a different picture. Instead of simply presenting what Trump said, letting people decide for themselves, they report how they interpreted what Trump said. A huge difference. I just watched Trump and don't agree with their interpretation. At all.
This is not a case of "lying," it's a case of showmanship, perhaps. It's classic "yuge" Trump. If you guys had been even a tenth as critical of your messiah Obama, all the crap that guy said, Trump wouldn't even be the president right now. This is like saying someone is lying when they use the word "million" to merely express a large quantity without necessarily literally meaning a million.
Is there a $450 billion deal that has been signed? No. Nor did he ever make any such claim. Does that mean he isn't in the process of negotiating in that direction for one? No. You can't say he's lying about this. Are you privy to these backdoor communications and negotiations? Nope. You're not.
And as for the jobs numbers, he's not lying about that either. You can see him engaged in napkin math right in front of the camera speculating about how many jobs that could potentially be worth. Vanity doesn't show him in context though, because they don't want you to know that. They want you to think he lied in some overt calculating kind of way. He, in his usual style, merely speculated this is a lot of money potentially worth a lot of jobs.
How is that calculated anyway? Average teacher salary is what, about $35k. Does that count as a job? Let's see. 110 billion / 35k = 3.14 million jobs. Huh. How about if we use $60k instead, the average household income in the USA. 1.83 million jobs. Huh. Now what if we actually do 450 billion worth of business. That would be 7,500,000 jobs. Huh, maybe Trump's numbers are really low.
This man is very clearly just trying to make a simple point. You've got media hounding him, being deranged and hyper critical, trying to somehow link him to this incident, this murder that took place. He's saying, look, we're doing business with these people. I'm taking it seriously, we've responded and are taking actions, but I don't think we should “F” up this business deal which is potentially worth some major coin. Perhaps up to a million or more jobs.
He's not lying, you guys are. You're wackos. I can understand how people would make fun of Trump's style, there's a lot of material there to work with. But he's not lying. He's not this heinous monster. That's you. And the thing is, when you act in this deranged way, that is objectively a gross misrepresentation of reality, it leads to the opposite. Instead of offering reasonable criticisms, which I could get behind, you make it into this divisive contest. When you do this, you put people in a situation where they have to choose sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdXJqOkNsMIran literally funded terrorism that killed our people in Afghanistan. Obama, in response, secretly flew pallets of cash to them. Media was nowhere to be found. Saudis kill one of their own. Some hotheads that went too far, a personal feud, a goofy op that went wrong, whatever, it's none of our business at all, and the media loses their minds and blames it on Trump and believes diplomatic ties with the country that controls the lever to the world's oil supply should be forever severed in response. Y'all are complete and total wackos.
How many black men are killed in Chicago every day? Who gives a damn about this Saudi journalist?
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