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Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-19): Many chief executives have failed, in one way or another, to live up to the demands of the job, or to competently discharge them. But historians now tend to agree that our worst presidents are those who fall short in the second part of their pledge, in some way endangering the Constitution. And if you want to understand why these three failures make Trump the worst of all our presidents, the place to begin is in the basement of the presidential rankings, where dwell his rivals for that singular dishonor. [...] Trump’s heartless and incompetent approach to immigration, his use of tax policy to punish states that didn’t vote for him, his diversion of public funds to properties owned by him and his family, his impulsive and self-defeating approach to trade, and his petulance toward traditional allies assured on their own that he would not be seen as a successful modern president. But those failures have more to do with the first part of his oath. The case that Trump is not just the worst of our modern presidents but the worst of them all rests on three other pillars, not all of which have a Nixonian parallel. [...] There are many verdicts on Donald Trump still to come, from the Senate, from juries of private citizens, from scholars and historians. But as a result of his subversion of national security, his reckless endangerment of every American in the pandemic, and his failed insurrection on January 6, one thing seems abundantly clear: Trump is the worst president in the 232-year history of the United States.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-03-06): On March 5, 2024, the @BidenHQ account on X — a rapid-response account for U.S. President Joe Biden's reelection campaign — posted, "Fact check: Trump left office with the worst jobs record since the Great Depression and President Biden has since presided over historic economic growth." [...] Fact check: Trump left office with the worst jobs record since the Great Depression and President Biden has since presided over historic economic growth pic.twitter.com/82kdWGlN8F — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 5, 2024 [...] Trump Admin's Jobs Record and COVID-19
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Most of those jobs (57%) would return before Trump left office. But he ended his presidency with an economy that had 2.7 million fewer jobs than when he started — becoming the first president in modern times to experience a net loss of jobs over his time in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has monthly employment figures dating to 1939. [...] Nearly 1.4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in March and April 2020. When Trump left office, there were 178,000 fewer people employed in manufacturing than when he became president. That followed a net decrease of 195,000 under Obama. [...] Even before the pandemic, coal mining jobs were on the decline under Trump. There were 50,800 coal mining jobs in January 2017, when Trump became president. But at the end of 2019, there were 48,000 such jobs — a decline of 2,800. The job losses continued in early 2020 and accelerated during the pandemic — dropping to a new low of 37,100 in April 2020.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2020-09-04): President Donald Trump is heading into the general election with the worst jobs numbers of anypresident, based on records that go back to World War II. [...] The only other President in the last 80 years to own an overall loss in jobs between his inauguration and the following Election Day was George W. Bush in 2004. That was because of the so-called "jobless recovery" after the recession sparked by the dot-com bust. But the loss of 605,000 jobs through September of 2004 was a fraction of the job losses that happened under the Trump administration. [...] George W. Bush, the only president with a record of job losses leading up to the election, was nonetheless reelected in 2004. He was helped by the economy adding 1.5 million jobs between January and September of that year.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-03-08): In March 2024, the X account @BidensWins – described as "the largest online community of President Joe Biden's supporters" – posted, "BREAKING: Donald Trump claimed he had the best jobs record this country has seen. This is another example of senile behavior. Facts are Trump had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression." [...] BREAKING: Donald Trump claimed he had the best jobs record this country has seen. This is another example of senile behavior. Facts are Trump had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression. Retweet to ensure everyone know Trump is losing his mind. pic.twitter.com/TySodvPmbs — Biden's Wins (@BidensWins) March 5, 2024 [...] Fact check: Trump had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression and President Biden has presided over historic job growth pic.twitter.com/043ZsMMBhn — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 5, 2024
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-03-04): In January, Biden highlighted that Trump was the first president to oversee a net loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover, who was in office when the Great Depression hit — but failed to mention the 2020 pandemic caused the nosedive. [...] The data shows that manufacturing jobs have grown by about 6.5% since Biden took office. Trump ranks second at 3.4%, followed by Clinton at 2.5%. Three years into their terms, Obama and Bush had both overseen losses in manufacturing jobs. [...] PolitiFact, "Joe Biden links Donald Trump's jobs record to Herbert Hoover's, without any mention of COVID-19," Jan. 16, 2024
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-05-03): Fact check: Pelosi says Trump has 'the worst record of job loss of any president' With the economy consistently important to potential 2024 voters, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., compared the job-creation records of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump during a recent interview with MSNBC's Katy Tur.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-01-16): "They showed me the clip of Trump saying he wanted the economy to crash so he could gain politically," Biden wrote Jan. 11 on X. "Says he doesn’t want to be Hoover. Here's the thing: He already is. He’s the first president since Hoover to lose jobs while in office. Some record." We checked the numbers and found that Trump is, as Biden said, "the first president since Hoover to lose jobs while in office." [...] During Trump’s presidency, the U.S. lost a net 2.7 million jobs.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Pelosi said April 29 that Trump "has the worst record of job loss of any president." [...] During Trump’s presidency, the U.S. lost a net 2.7 million jobs. [...] Pelosi said Trump had the worst jobs record of "any president." Hoover almost certainly fared worse, and we don’t know about earlier presidents, who served before reliable records were kept.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-09-25): Vice President Kamala Harris made a false claim about the jobs record of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday evening. [...] That is true. While the steepest manufacturing job losses under Trump occurred during the pandemic, the losses did start before the pandemic; the economy experienced a net loss of 48,000 manufacturing jobs over the 13-month period from February 2019 through February 2020 after gaining under Trump before then. [...] The Harris campaign aide said Harris was referring to Trump’s overall jobs record; he was the first president to preside over a net four-year loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover, who left office during Depression-era 1933.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2020-11-06): A chart posted to the Center for American Progress Action Fund page on Facebook showed negative job growth numbers for Trump compared with 12 of his predecessors. Trump is "the worst jobs president in history" with job losses totaling 4 million, according to the post's caption. [...] Tracking job growth figures from Truman to Trump reveals unprecedented job losses during the Trump administration. CAP's assertion that Trump is the worst jobs president in history appears to be true based on available data. [...] - CNN, Oct. 6: "Trump has the worst job losses on record heading into the election"
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2020-08-27): He is also asking Americans to treat the last six months, the most devastating and sudden recession in recorded history, as an asterisk to his record. But, the current recession is arguably more tied to his direct decisions than any recession in history. At every decision point, President Trump has taken positions that ensured this recession would be deeper and more prolonged. Every president faces profound tests, but none have failed theirs at the magnitude that he has. [...] - Trump is the worst jobs president in recorded history, currently presiding over a loss of 6 million jobs from when he took over. In fact, he is on track to be the only president to have actually lost jobs over his term. [...] - The week ending March 28 saw close to 7 million Americans file for unemployment, the highest weekly number of unemployment claims in recorded history, reaching nearly seven times higher than the highest figure recorded before Trump’s presidency.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-20): He summed up his position neatly during the campaign: "I'll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created." [...] Yet as he leaves after his one-term tenure, Trump has become the first president since Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression to depart office with fewer jobs in the country than when he entered. [...] In the last year of Trump’s presidency, the unemployment rate reached a 50-year low of 3.5% in February. The coronavirus pandemic soon walloped the economy, forcing swaths of businesses across the country to close. The unemployment rate skyrocketed to 14.7% in April. It receded to 6.7% as of last month but remains above the level of 4.8% when Trump took office in 2016.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-04-30): Trump ‘has the worst record’ as a President Tur interjected, "There was a global pandemic", and it affected every job sector during Trump's administration. Pelosi, taken aback by the comment, continued by reiterating her belief that Trump "has the worst record job loss of any president." "He had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine," the former House Speaker remarked.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-12): Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover [...] That means that Trump will become the first post–World War II president to see employment fall during his presidency. It last occurred when Herbert Hoover left office in 1933 amid the early years of the Great Depression. [...] For comparison purposes, Fortune annualized the job gain rates under all the past leaders since Reagan. During Obama’s eight years at the helm of the nation, U.S. employment maintained a 1% annualized return. That growth level did start to climb during the Trump years; as of February 2020 employment was increasing on a 1.5% annualized basis during his presidency. Yet in the final tally Trump will leave office having overseen a -0.5% annualized job growth rate.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-29): Trump’s policy record included major changes at home and abroad. He achieved a string of long-sought conservative victories domestically, including the biggest corporate tax cuts on record, the elimination of scores of environmental regulations and a reshaping of the federal judiciary. In the international arena, he imposed tough new immigration restrictions, withdrew from several multilateral agreements, forged closer ties with Israel and launched a tit-for-tat trade dispute with China as part of a wider effort to address what he saw as glaring imbalances in America’s economic relationship with other countries. [...] At the same time, the pandemic had a disastrous effect on the economy. Trump and Barack Obama together had presided over the longest economic expansion in American history, with the U.S. unemployment rate at a 50-year low of 3.5% as recently as February 2020. By April 2020, with businesses around the country closing their doors to prevent the spread of the virus, unemployment had soared to a post-World War II high of 14.8%. Even after considerable employment gains later in the year, Trump was the first modern president to leave the White House with fewer jobs in the U.S. than when he took office.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2023-07-12): I thought I’d seen the worst. After all, I served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security for part of the Trump era. We believed the man’s immoral impulses could be managed. We were catastrophically wrong. I wrote an unsigned opinion piece from within the administration to shine a light on presidential misconduct, but it only got darker. So I quit my job, unmasked myself as the anonymous author, and recruited others to campaign against the president in 2020. Trump lost. In many ways, so did I. Contending with the vindictive chief executive nearly destroyed my life, from financial and legal troubles to stalkers and death threats. More importantly, it nearly destroyed our republic.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2020-09-16): Here are 50 ways the Trump administration has failed workers, starting with recent actions (or inactions) and extending back to the beginning of Trump’s presidency. [...] The Tax Cut and Jobs Acts (TCJA) has encouraged offshoring of both paper profits and real production of U.S. multinational companies. The Trump administration’s failed tax (and currency) policies have resulted in continued offshoring, including the net loss of nearly 1,800 factories between 2016 and 2018 and 740,000 manufacturing jobs since February 2020. [...] Dollar overvaluation is the single largest cause of growing U.S. trade deficits, which are the most important cause of the loss of 5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs and 91,000 plants since 1998.80 The dollar’s value has increased nearly 23% in the past five years, going in exactly the wrong direction. The administration has done nothing to ameliorate this and has done much to make it worse. More than half of this increase has occurred since the Trump administration began imposing tariffs on China in March 2018.81 34. It denied workers a minimum wage increase
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2020-07-01): Yet NAFTA was a perennial target in the broader debate over free trade. President Donald J. Trump says it undermined U.S. jobs and manufacturing, and in December 2019, his administration completed an updated version of the pact with Canada and Mexico, now known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USMCA won broad bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and entered into force on July 1, 2020. [...] Many workers and labor leaders blame trade agreements such as NAFTA for the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. The U.S. auto sector lost some 350,000 jobs since 1994—a third of the industry—while Mexican auto sector employment spiked from 120,000 to 550,000 workers. [...] During the 2016 presidential campaign, both Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, criticized NAFTA for bringing U.S. job losses. After entering office, Trump opened renegotiations to get a "better deal" for the United States. Trade remains a hot-button issue, with candidates in the 2020 race divided over whether to support the USMCA.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-08-11): 28. "We have a president that's the worst president in the history of our country."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-02-21): Employment under Trump was positive until the economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April 2020, as efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus led to business closures and layoffs. By the time Trump left office in January 2021, employment had partly rebounded, but was still 9.4 million jobs below the February 2020 peak, according to the official figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In a Feb. 3 post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Biden said, "The last guy had the worst jobs record since the Great Depression," including a chart that showed a monthly average loss of 57,000 jobs under Trump. "Our record is a little different," Biden boasted, with his graphic revealing a monthly average growth of 409,000 jobs under his presidency. (We actually calculate the average at 411,000.) [...] The comparison in Biden’s chart is "unfair," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist, president of the "center-right" American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, told us, noting the more than 20 million jobs lost in April 2020. "That’s 10 times more than we have ever lost in a single month." That wasn’t "Trump’s fault."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-09-02): Before big job losses in 2020 due to Covid, in the first three years of Trump's presidency almost 6.7 million jobs were added, according to data for non-farm jobs (which covers about 80% of workers in the labour force). [...] Prior to the pandemic, Mr Trump delivered an unemployment rate of 3.5%. As in many parts of the world, Covid lockdown measures led to soaring levels of unemployment in the US - but the unemployment levels had dropped back down to around 7% when Trump left office.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-04-29): During an appearance on the network, Pelosi touted President Biden’s record on the economy, saying, he "created 9 million jobs in his term in office. So we just have to make sure people know." [...] Pelosi paused, looking shocked, before shooting back at Tur that "he had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country."
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2023-09-27): Donald Trump told us in 2016 he would stand with workers. He lied. The difference now is that he has a record he can’t hide from. And that record was catastrophic for workers. Former President Trump spent four years in office weakening unions and working people while pushing tax giveaways to the wealthiest among us. He stacked the courts with judges who want to roll back our rights on the job. He made us less safe at work. He gave big corporations free rein to lower wages and make it harder for workers to stand together in a union. [...] This week workers will be out in force on the picket lines in Michigan and across the country to support striking autoworkers. We’ll also be calling out Trump’s lies as he attempts to appeal to the very same workers he spent four years in office betraying. In the coming weeks and months, the AFL-CIO and unions across the country will work tirelessly to expose Trump’s record. [...] Promised to protect jobs in the steel industry, but failed to follow through on cracking down on China’s dumping of steel into the U.S. In 2019 alone, more than 16,000 manufacturing workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan lost their jobs.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-06-19): When former President Donald Trump stopped in Festival Park in Racine on Tuesday for his third campaign rally in battleground Wisconsin this year, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee was prepared. Throughout the day, the campaign and the DNC fired off a series of emails and rolled out new billboards in the area hitting back on Trump’s record in the Badger State, focusing mainly on one topic – job losses. [...] "Foxconn failure," the billboard continued before mentioning manufacturing job losses under the former president. [...] In total, Trump left the White House with the U.S. economy having lost about three million jobs over his four years in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But before the pandemic began to overtake the country in March 2020, the economy saw the addition of about 6.7 million between January 2017, when Trump was inaugurated, and February 2020, which amounts to the former president’s first 38 month’s in office. Over the same amount of time during Biden’s presidency, the U.S. saw the creation of about 14.9 million.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2021-01-19): President Donald Trump will leave office with 3 million less jobs than when he was inaugurated in 2017, marking the worst presidential job record since the Great Depression. [...] The jobs report released by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 8 shows his employment record will be the worst in modern American history. [...] No other president has seen such significant job losses during a single term since the government began keeping track in 1939. Trump was undoubtedly handed a difficult task when faced with the outbreak of the coronavirus, but economists have noted that his lack of leadership and slow response to the health crisis led to a much worse economic outcome than what other nations experienced.
Claim: Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” (Nancy Pelosi, 2024-04-29)
Evidence (2024-08-29): Donald Trump and his well-heeled donors don’t see the world that way. For them, one group’s gains is necessarily another group’s loss. For them, freedom means that the powerful can do pretty much what they please, whether its fire workers trying to organize a union or poisoning our rivers or avoid paying taxes like everybody else has to do. [...] Now, before I go, I have one more job tonight. Yeah. One more job.