Pence’s ‘Gaslighting’ Boast About Record Jobs Creation Backfires

Jaws collectively dropped on Twitter over Vice President Mike Pence’s latest boast about the number of jobs created in the U.S. during Donald Trump’s presidency.

Pence on Wednesday told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Trump had “seen us through the worst pandemic in 100 years” and “we’ve already created more jobs in the last three months than Joe Biden and Barack Obama created in their eight years in office.”

Check out Pence’s comments here:

Twitter users pointed out the problems with Pence’s brag.

Several accused the vice president of “gaslighting” and noted how an administration does not create the jobs itself.

Other critics highlighted how millions of roles have been lost and the U.S. economy has shrunk by record levels in the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the Trump administration’s disastrous response to it:

You destroyed 40 million jobs, and got about half back.

That is a lot of jobs you “created” in the past three months.

But only because you destroyed a lot more before that. https://t.co/UnniPizaI9

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) August 13, 2020

If you don’t understand what’s decieptful about this tweet, you deserve every last thing these people have done to you.

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) August 13, 2020

Lawyers defending members of the administration don’t count.

— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) August 13, 2020

People going back to work is not job creation

— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) August 13, 2020

ARE YOU SERIOUS WITH THIS???

In the three months prior to that YOU LOST MORE JOBS THAN IN THE PREVIOUS 100 YEARS COMBINED!!!

My god.

Anyone who falls for this shit needs their head examined. I mean it’s just blatant, textbook, dictionary definition gaslighting.

smfh

— John *82 Days* Wright 👤👩👨📷📺 (@TheWrightJohn) August 13, 2020

And you actually think people will believe this statement. I mean, could you just not insult our intelligence like that? We know you guys are a lie a minute but couldn’t you at least lie a little BETTER?

— Deena Heg (@bikesalsa) August 13, 2020

This is a lie

If you can’t figure that out, then you need intervention.

Trump inherited economy w 5% jobless. Now stands at 10+ percent https://t.co/Np3DRSZJ5f

— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) August 13, 2020

What an incredibly misleading claim. First of all, job growth dropped by 50% from last month. Also, almost all of those jobs were jobs that existed prior to the pandemic lol pic.twitter.com/PkFPqRjXBR

— Ares 🥁🛹 Social Bidenism-Harrism (@AresStopell) August 13, 2020

Grave diggers are temporary jobs. Unless, of course, your plan is to keep killing people with your Trump virus to create more of those jobs?

— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) August 13, 2020

When Obama took office in Jan 2009, unemployment was 7.6%. When he left office it was 4.7%.

When Trump took office in Jan 2016, unemployment was 4.7%. It is now over 10%.

You are a lying piece of shit. Some people who were furloughed going back to work are not jobs you created.

— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) August 13, 2020

Let’s not be too harsh. I can think of at least two cases where they created jobs for people who would otherwise be unemployable. pic.twitter.com/y1Da9Lyyl1

— Devin Nunes’ Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) August 13, 2020