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8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com)
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Sprint is moving 5,000 offshore jobs back to the United States and OneWeb, a satellite Internet startup, is adding 3,000 more jobs in the U.S. From a report on USA Today: The jobs were made possible, Trump said, through Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, a Japanese billionaire and technology investor, who met with Trump in New York earlier this month. After that meeting, the two businessmen announced Softbank would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 jobs. Softbank owns 80% of Sprint and this month it invested $1 billion in OneWeb, a venture that intends to offer affordable Internet access. Son called the investment a "first step" in his commitment to Trump.
Trump is taking credit, but he had nothing to do with it, the investment in question has been in the works for a long time.
Yeah just wait for the details to come in on this one. I'm sure it will be like the announcement that he saved Ford jobs, only to find out that the company had planned that over a year ago and it had nothing to do with Trump. Or like the Carrier announcement, where he claimed credit for jobs that were never being eliminated, and the rest of them have the big asterisk that Carrier is going to invest millions of dollars which we later discovered were going mostly to automation to eventually replace most of the jobs that were just "saved"
Politicians are self-promoters and they take credit for things other people did.
No, Obama, having created a problem for US-Israel relations, is now gonna impose sanctions on Russia to put Trump in a bind. If Trump keeps those sanctions, his wish of normalizing relations w/ Russia are successfully sabotaged. If he lifts them, Dems can - like their CorrectTheRecord trolls here - claim that Trump is a puppet.
Seriously, I know his term doesn't end until Jan 20th, but this is not the time to start anything new, unless your successor is on board w/ it, and for these 2 policies, he knows that Trump is not. Yet, first he brought this resolution before the security council and it's now international law, and now he's gonna put sanctions on Russia so that his party comrades can assail Trump.
Trump should simply undo every executive order signed since November 8th, and make it clear that none of those things - like the nationalization of the Utah park or sealing off the Arctic - is gonna happen unless and until reviewed by his own administration. He is under no obligations to continue Obama's petulant policies
It will be a race to the bottom for Americans to lower their standard of living faster than China, India, Pakistan, Indonedia and Vietnam.
You're both morons, but a good deal of the jobs were headed overseas. They aren't "good" jobs, customer service and sales jobs. My guess is the tasty programming/IT jobs are still headed overseas.
This is kind of our own fault. We're the ones who vote for POTUS based on how we feel the economy is doing, when there's very little evidence the POTUS has any significant effect on that whatsoever. (In actuality, its probably much like being a coach. A good one can't really help all that much, but it is possible for a bad one to royally screw things up)
If the economy is going to be our metric for how a President is doing, and there's no objective statistical backing for it, its only natural to expect that one would cynically use bogus statistics to pump himself up. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
why stop at November 8th?
you idiots have already made it clear that you don't think the last year of the presidency counts, or hell, even all 8 years of it, questioning and denying the legitimacy of his powers since before he took office.
f all y'all morons.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
The Obama administration took credit for jobs that weren't lost - an essentially made up metric they added to jobs created to claim credit for jobs 'created or saved'... I never heard that metric before Obama was in office, had you?
Ken
there was only one politician running last election and it wasn't Trump.
He is a politician now but before the election he most certainly was not. Are you that thick to not understand this basic concept? Let me help you out: What political office did he hold before November 8th? Idiot.
He became a politician when he threw his hat in the ring in 2015. He became a successful politician in 2016. Do you not understand this basic concept?
His training ground on how to lie effectively and influence people was as a CEO.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain