Donald Trump ignores another 3.8 million becoming unemployed to tweet claim that economy will be ‘doing so well by summer that Democrats will accuse HIM of hyping COVID-19’
- There were 3.8 million new claims for unemployment benefits filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures released on Thursday
- More than 26 million have applied for aid in the previous five weeks, adding up to the largest streak of US job losses on record
- The total figure now – 30.3 million – is more people than live in the New York and Chicago metropolitan areas combined
- Trump retweeted claim by Palm Beach internet talk host Bill Mitchell
- Mitchell wrote that ‘Democrats will accuse HIM of hyping COVID-19’ to artificially depress the economy and mount comeback
- Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
President Donald Trump brushed past stark new unemployment numbers Thursday and retweeted a supporter who predicted the economy will be doing so well by summer Democrats will accuse him of ‘hyping’ the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump retweeted Bill Mitchell, a conservative Palm Beach, Florida-based online talk host who has provided undying online support since 2016.
‘The economy is going to do so well this Summer and make Trump look so good that Democrats will accuse HIM of hyping COVID-19 just so he could artificially depress the economy and rally into election day,’ Mitchell wrote, in a tweet the president blasted out to his millions of followers.
President Donald Trump retweeted Bill Mitchell, a conservative Palm Beach, Florida-based online talk host who has provided undying online support since 2016. Mitchell predicted the economy will be doing so well by summer Democrats will accuse him of ‘hyping’ the coronavirus outbreak
‘I’m not kidding. They’ll say this,’ he said.
The prediction about the economy was in line with what Trump and his economic team has been forecasting.
Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Wednesday at the White House: ‘We will see a growing, recovering economy by summertime and the back end of the year, and it’s going to extend into 2021.’
‘I think the fourth quarter is going to be really, really good,’ Trump said Wednesday. ‘And we’re going to be in a transition quarter next quarter, the third quarter. And I think we’ll do very, very nicely there, from an economic standpoint,’ he predicted.
Mitchell hosts an online broadcast called YourVoiceAmerica. The paid service calls itself ‘all MAGA all the time!’
Trump retweeted a tweet that claimed Democrats would accuse him of ‘hyping’ the coronavirus
In this Monday, April 27, 2020, photo, with a bottle of hand sanitizer in the background, a sign limits the number of shoppers in the greenhouse of Evergreen Gardens of Vermont in Waterbury Center, Vt.
A message is posted on the front window of the Ranging Bull Saloon which remains closed during the coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Augusta, Maine
More than 30 million Americans have now lost their jobs in the six weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began as the US economy slides further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s
There were 3.8 million new claims for unemployment benefits filed last week, according to the latest Labor Department figures released on Thursday
‘We’ve weathered the storm throughout this entire COVID-19 thing. We’re coming out the other side,’ Mitchell predicted on his latest broadcast. ‘We’re leading with the red states first. Blue states, they’re going to feel left out after a while. They want to make this thing last as long as possible,’ he claimed.
A host of states are staging phased reopenings, with Republican governors in Georgia, Texas and Florida taking immediate steps. Federal social distancing guidelines expire tonight.
There were 3,8 million new unemployment claims according to new Labor Department figures released Thursday. More than 26 million Americans have applied for assistance in the last five weeks, in just one measure of the crushing force of the coronavirus outbreak.
The latest unemployment benefit numbers follow the news on Wednesday that the US economy in the first quarter suffered its sharpest drop – 4.8 percent – since the 2008 financial crisis.
Across nearly every industry, nonessential businesses have closed, and workers have been sent home with no clear idea of when or whether they might be recalled. An economic recovery may be months or years off, though governors in a few states have begun allowing some businesses to reopen under certain restrictions.
With more employers cutting payrolls to save money, economists have forecast that the unemployment rate for April could go as high as 20 percent. That would be the highest rate since it reached 25 percent during the Great Depression.