Source: C-SPAN
Always one to constantly remind people of his accomplishments (even if they're not actually his), Donald Trump used his first State of the Union address to take credit for the low unemployment rate among black people in America.
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"And something I'm very proud of, African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded," Trump said to the audience in attendance at the U.S. Capitol. However, as we've reported before, that accomplishment actually belongs to Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama.
And if you didn't know that, well the Congressional Black Caucus is here to inform you.
Prior to the address the CBC's official Twitter posted the following: "The black unemployment rate fell from 16.5% to 7.8% from January 2011 –January 2017. Now it's 6.8%. Thank President Obama – not Donald Trump."
When Trump mentioned the accomplishment during the address the CBC, whose members were present and dressed in West African kente cloth to protest Trump's "s**thole countries" remark, were visibly unimpressed.
Only one of the members can be seen applauding while the others look on disinterested, aware that Trump's claim isn't completely true.
Previously, Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and now a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Trump has "no business taking credit for any of these developments."
"If you look at the budget they've proposed, they've aggressively gone after lower-income people. If you look at their tax plan it was very much targeted at their donor base," Bernstein said. "…presidents do that. He's not the first one but he is in many ways the least justified one because he is trying to push an economic agenda that pushes aggressively in the other direction. All he did was inherit a strong economy from Obama, and thus far he hasn't completely screwed it up."
