THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP’S “AMERICA FIRST WEEK”!

…Trump in the cab of a machine he has no clue how to operate

Trump and his daughter only offer foreign made products that show the Trump name.

Here is a media quote to explain why what Donald Trump has been trying to accomplish is wrong:  “Going back to 1950 is not going to work in America.  Trying to bring back jobs that have moved out of the country just isn’t going to work.” 

It is instead now time to train Americans for the new jobs of the future.  Not to continue trying to bring back dying jobs like mining coal for the next generation of American workers.

Even in China and India, they are focusing on more clean energy such as solar, wind and electric transportation as they back off of using coal and fossil fuels.

Just look at how the president and his daughter operate for getting out the wrong message.  Here he spends a whole week on “Buy American / Build American”, while in three separate visits to Trump Tower to check out Donald and Ivanka’s clothing products, virtually every item from Trump Tower with both of the Trump’s names, they were all produced in low-wage manufacturing countries.  

The reality is that for many of these products, there is virtually no manufacturer to make them in the US.  As an example, there are very few garment manufacturers in the US, and those that are here would cost 3 times to manufacture any of either of the Trump’s products.  As to all the other Trump items than the clothing offered in Trump Tower, it is the same situation.  To find any of these items manufactured in the US, they would cost much more than coming from Bangladesh, Taiwan or China.

Just look at the manufacturers that were presented at the White House during Trump’s America First week in DC.  Pulling up on the White House drive way was a hook-and-ladder fire truck and a large utility extension bucket truck that pulled up on the South Portico of the White House.  They arrived and extended their rescue stabilizing arms in the vicinity of the White House’  Truman Balcony.

The Trump White House had invited the makers of these very specialized and highly expensive trucks to bring their wares to Washington for showing that Trump was making good on his promise to revive US manufacturing.  But what a joke, as it was two of the best and most expensive US manufacturers.  And both of these companies do offer cheaper products for sell, but  they are all imported from cheaper manufacturers in various foreign countries.

One opinion writer for The Post wrote the following humorous quote about the hook and ladder firetruck brought to the White House: “Did President Trump need to be talked off the ledge after seeing his latest poll numbers?” 

Another one wrote: “Had the first lady finally decided to make a break from the White House?”

But as expected, the real reason they were there was every bit as ridiculous: “The Trump White House had invited the makers of the trucks, and other manufacturers, to bring their wares to the White House to show that Trump was making good on his promise to revive manufacturing jobs in America.”  But all these same items have been made in the US for decades.  Not one item at the White House extravaganza was a “newly manufactured  item”.  Not one item being presented had been "revived" in the US.

It was very embarrassing when the president admired the US made baseball bats and golf clubs, and he looked ridiculous when he tried on a Stetson hat from Texas. (Also, products that have always come from the US.)  He then stupidly asserted that the representative from an Omaha beef producer “wanted to kiss me so badly”.  (Another falsehood from the president…?) 

But he did give a thumbs-up from the driver’s seat of the firetruck and when he admired a Sikorsky helicopter, this so called “champion of the little guy” stated: “I have three of them”.

Sorry, but the three White House Marine One helicopters belong to you and me, not Donald Trump.”

Trump’s own businesses fill their hotel rooms with mostly imported goods.  His daughter manufactures her clothing line entirely overseas.  But they both had the gall to proclaimed this was “Made in America” week.

But that Trump tries to give the impression that he is leading a manufacturing revival does make perfect sense.  That’s because in the otherwise dismal, latest Washington Post-ABC Poll, Trump’s handling of the economy is the only area in which he is viewed somewhat favorably by the public.  But that’s by a narrow 43%, while another 41% totally disagree.

Some writers have jokingly said that based on Trump’s poor presidential results to date, it might be time for him to call a five-alarm emergency and ride that hook-and-ladder truck into exile at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The latest poll finds that only 33% of the public approves of the job Trump is doing.  That is the lowest at this point in any presidency over the past 70 years, back to when modern polling began.

Only 25% of those polled support him strongly.  But, to paraphrase Trump’s remarks to the first lady of France, he is in such good shape, beautiful! in his words, compared with where he would be if his supporters were to lose faith in his economic policies. Then, the bottom in support would drop out.  (Isn’t that what’s happening?)

Trump supporters are largely unconcerned about his personal antics, or his lying and his bizarre approaches as president.  But it is the nation’s economic woes, not the Russian scandal or zany tweets that would doom Trump in the base's public opinion.  The problem for Trump is many of his populist promises are starting to look totally false. 

Remember that Carrier Air Conditioner plant in Indiana that Trump claimed to have saved?  It’s announced the laying off of over 600 people. The Boeing plant in South Carolina that Trump visited in February to showcase his fight for manufacturing jobs?  Layoffs are happening there, too.  Remember when Trump denounced plans by Ford Motors to move production of the Ford Focus from Michigan to Mexico. Now Ford is moving the Focus to China instead.

The reality is that it isn’t because of taxes that are forcing production overseas. It’s productivity: Manufacturers can produce twice as much in the United States as they did a few decades ago with a third fewer workers.  And coal mining jobs aren’t leaving the country because of regulations, as Trump always tells his supporters.  The jobs have been lost to market forces in the form of cheaper oil and cheaper and cleaner natural gas along with additional green solar and wind power.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), (led today by a Republican appointee), has forecast that the economy would grow at just a 1.9% rate under Trump’s proposed budget.  That’s far less than the 3% that the White House and Trump falsely alleges. The CBO also said the Trump budget would leave a “$720 billion deficit” in just a decade, contrary to the bogus Trump claims.

So, what happens when Trump’s backers discover that they’ve been had?  They’re  already losing health-care coverage and other benefits, while manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back and a Trump-ignited trade war has started hurting US exports?

Trump is going to need more than that hook and ladder fire truck to escape that what going to happen when his supporters finally wake up.

Watch this space…………….!

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