The Promise Trump Made That He Never Intended To Keep

 

When Donald Trump was running for re-election in 2024, he made a promise to Americans - that he would immediately lower prices. It was that promise, more than any other, that allowed him to siphon off enough voters to win the election - because many millions of Americans were having trouble making ends meet financially.

Unfortunately, he had no intention of actually following through on that promise. 

I say that because one of the first things he did after taking office was to place a tariff on goods imported from nearly every nation in the world. He tried to convince people that the tariff would be paid by the nations importing goods in this country. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that was not true. 

The tariffs were paid by the businesses importing the goods. Those businesses than raised prices for consumers to account for the tariffs they paid. In other words, the tariffs had the opposite effect to his promise. It raised the prices on nearly everything imported - and many of those goods are not made or grown in the United States, so consumers had no choice but to pay higher prices.

Then Trump (and his GOP cohorts) passed their "big beautiful bill". That bill gave massive tax cuts to the rich and super-rich (and a pittance to many in the middle class). To partially pay for it, the bill kicked many off of SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid, and made insurance unaffordable for millions more getting help through enhanced payments for private insurance (through Obamacare).

This made life much harder for millions of Americans - many of whom had voted for him because he promised to make things more affordable. 

The bill also had another effect. It raised the national debt by trillions of dollars. That huge increase in national debt caused an increase in the rates for borrowing. That made everything Americans borrowed to buy (like auto and homes) to cost a lot more. It was just another move to increase inflation.

Those moves would have been bad enough for Americans having trouble affording to live in this country, but then Trump did something very stupid - he started a war with Iran without the proper planning or a plan to disengage. Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz - causing oil prices to skyrocket around the world.

That war, now in its eighth month, caused gas prices to jump sharply. This negatively affected millions of Americans - making them spend significantly more for gas on their already tight budgets.

It also caused an even bigger increase in the price of diesel. This was disastrous for farmers who use diesel to plant, nurture, and harvest their crops - and it raised the prices on what they grow. Also, diesel is used to power the big trucks that deliver to market almost everything Americans need. The increase in cost to shipping is passed on to customers. Once again, Trump caused prices to rise instead of fall.

Trump promised to lower prices during his campaign, but his actions upon becoming president has just raised those prices.

It was a promise he never intended to keep.

Republicans Promised A Great Country For All - But Only Delivered It To The Rich

 

The following is just part of a post by Thom Hartmann at The Hartmann Report:

A new national survey of Americans finds that almost half of us (48%) say our lives are “lacking in fun” with fully 12% saying they can’t recall the last time they had an entire day they could simply enjoy. More than half (57%) said this was because they couldn’t afford to have fun, which makes perfect sense when you consider how 45 years of Reaganomics have destroyed the union movement and progressive taxation, and thus gutted the American middle class.

Like idiots, we Americans bought Reagan’s siren song hook, line, and sinker back in 1980. He told us prosperity would “trickle down” if we just abandoned the largely non-profit healthcare system we had nationwide (most states required hospitals and health insurance companies to be nonprofits), the unions that fought for us to have good pay and benefits, enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, free college, and subsidized housing.

Reagan put what’s sometimes called “the neoliberal agenda” (I wrote a book about it: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America”) into place and no president, Republican or Democratic, has fully repealed it. We still have few union members, low taxes on billionaires and corporations, profitized healthcare and education, and stagnant wages for working class people.

All because we believed the Republicans and their billionaire backers and media owners. Consider how they’ve played three generations for fools:

Republicans told us if we just cut the top tax rate on the morbidly rich from the 74% it was at in 1980 down to 27% it would “trickle down” benefits to everybody else as, they said, the “job creators” would be unleashed on our economy.

Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up with the greatest wealth and income inequality in the world, as over $70 trillion was transferred over 45 years from the bottom 90% to the top .1%, where it remains to this day. The middle class has gone from over 65% of us to fewer than half of us. It now takes 2 full-time wage earners to sustain the same lifestyle one could in 1980. . . .

Republicans told us that if we just stopped enforcing the anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws that had protected small businesses for nearly 100 years, there would be an explosion of innovation and opportunity as companies got bigger and better.

Instead, we’ve seen every industry in America become so consolidated that competition is dead, price gouging and profiteering reign, and it’s impossible to start or find small family-owned businesses anymore in downtowns, malls, and the suburbs. It’s all giant chains, many now owed by hedge funds or private equity. Few family or local businesses can compete against such giants.

Republicans told us that if we just changed the laws to let corporations pay their senior executives with stock (in addition to cash) they’d be “more invested” in the fate and future of the company and business would generally become healthier.

Instead, nearly every time a corporation initiates a stock buyback program, millions and often billions of dollars flow directly into the pockets of the main shareholders and executives while workers, the company, and society suffer the loss. . . .

Republicans told us we should hand our healthcare decisions not to our doctors but to bureaucratic insurance industry middlemen who’d would decide which of our doctor’s suggestions they’d approve and which they’d reject for payment. They said this will “lower costs and increase choice.”

In all of the entire developed world — all the OECD countries on 4 continents — there are only 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year. Every single one of them is here in America.

Republicans told us if we just got rid of our unions, then our bosses and the companies that employ them would give us better pay, more benefits, and real job security.

As everybody can see, they lied. And are working as hard as they can to prevent America from returning to the levels of unionization we had before Reagan’s Great Neoliberal Republican Experiment. . . .

The bottom line is that we — as a nation, voluntarily or involuntarily — have now had the full Republican experience, and every Zoomer paying attention knows it. It’s why they’re no longer listening to the Republican politicians who are continuing to try to sell us this bullshit.

We don’t want to hear Republicans sermonizing about deficits (that they themselves caused).

Or welfare (that they damaged and then exploited).

Or even whatever they’re calling “faith” these days, be it the death penalty, forcing raped women to give birth at the barrel of a gun, or burning books.

We’re over it, Republicans; we want fun and meaning back in our lives, rather than just working ourselves to death so Bezos and Zuck can buy new yachts.

The "Great Dealmaker" Is Having Trouble Making Global Deals

Donald Trump brags that he is a great dealmaker, and he convinced his supporters that he would easily and quickly make deals once he started his second term. He even promised to get a peace deal in Ukraine on his first day! But it's easy to make ridiculous promises, and quite another to follow through on them. And he is having big problems on completing global deals he said would be easy. Axios.com lists five deals that are eluding Trump's magic touch:

On at least five fronts, Trump's ambitions for big international deals are hitting early hurdles:

1. On Ukraine, Trump campaigned on securing a deal to end the fighting within 24 hours — though now he claims that promise was "a little bit sarcastic."

• Trump did get Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table, and to agree to stop bombing each other's energy infrastructure. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast doubt on the possibility of a peace deal any time soon.
• Trump said Sunday he was "pissed off" at Putin for his recent comments, and threatened additional oil tariffs if Moscow continues to stand in the way of a full ceasefire.
• He also fired a warning shot at Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelensky complained that the minerals deal Kyiv negotiated with the U.S. is "constantly changing."

2. On Gaza, Trump helped deliver a breakthrough before even taking office when his team worked with the outgoing Biden administration to secure a ceasefire.

• That truce is now over, and Israel on Monday announced it would massively expand its renewed ground operation in Gaza.
• Trump isn't actively pursuing his own proposal for the U.S. to displace Gaza's population to construct a new "Riviera." Instead, he's focusing on restarting talks to restore the ceasefire and free the remaining 59 hostages, Axios' Barak Ravid reports. Israeli and U.S. officials believe 22 of them are still alive.

3. On Iran, Trump issued an ultimatum demanding Tehran agree to a new nuclear deal within two months or face potential military strikes. That's led to further threats from both sides.

• Iranian leaders have rejected the idea of direct negotiations with the Trump administration, but left open the possibility of indirect talks.

• "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump told NBC on Sunday.

4. On Greenland, Trump continues to insist that the U.S. "needs" to obtain the autonomous Danish territory, perhaps by military force.

• Vice President Vance laid out one path to a deal last week: Greenland votes for independence from Denmark, then signs a security pact with the U.S.
• The island's new prime minister announced a new coalition last week in part to unite againstU.S. pressure.

5. On tariffs, it's unclear if Trump is actually using them as leverage to cut deals — as Wall Street once assumed — or if he wants the levies in place long-term.

• Blue chip companies have announced billions of dollars of investments in the U.S. to try to preempt the tariffs and get on Trump's good side — Exhibit A for why Republicans remain optimistic about his trade strategy.
• But countries uncertain of how to protect themselves from Trump's economic wrath are starting to look elsewhere.

In an extraordinary sign of how Trump's hardball tactics are reshaping the world, China, South Korea and Japan — three countries with deep historical grievances — agreed to respond jointly to U.S. tariffs, according to Chinese state media.

Trump Approves Of Massive Medicaid Cuts (After Promising Not To Cut It)

The following is part of a post by Dan Rather:

Trump said time and again on the campaign trail to trust him, entitlements were safe. After he was elected, he promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid. As recently as February 18, he reiterated that pledge to Sean Hannity on Fox “News.” “It’s going to be strengthened but won’t be touched. Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched.”

On social media a day later, Trump reversed himself, endorsing the Republican House budget plan that included a directive for the Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 million in cuts. Most or all of those cuts are likely to come from Medicaid. “The House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

But Trump can’t have it both ways. Enabled by his MAGA brethren in Congress, the new administration is looking for $1.5 trillion in savings over the next decade to fund tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, this cannot be accomplished unless cuts are made to entitlement programs, specifically Medicaid, at least to start.

Medicaid is designed specifically to help Americans most in need — who also have the least political clout. The program provides health insurance to more than 72 million poor and disabled Americans. That’s one in five people. Eighty percent of poor children (and 39% of all American children) get insurance through Medicaid. It also provides coverage for 63% of nursing home residents and 41% of adults with disabilities and pays for 41% of all births.

Under the current system, the federal government and state governments share the cost of coverage, though the federal government shoulders considerably more of the costs than the states. Any federal cuts will mean states will either have to reduce coverage or raise taxes to make up the budget shortfall.

America is the richest nation in the world. How much more money do the already-wealthy need? And is lowering taxes for the rich at the expense of the poor and disadvantaged really good for the country — short- and long-term?

Trump's Tariffs And Deportations Will Make Grocery Prices Go Way Up

During the campaign, Trump made three big promises to voters. He pledged to raise tariffs on imports from other countries, deport undocumented immigrants, and reduce grocery prices. 

It looks like he is going to follow through on the first two (tariffs and deportations). That means he will not be able to reduce grocery prices. On the contrary, they will go way up!

Tariffs will obviously make prices go up. While Trump claims the foreign countries will pay the tariff, that is simply not true. The importer of the goods pays the tariff - and then raises the price to the consumer on those goods to recoup the loss.

The United States imports about 40% to 60% of fruits and vegetables (and other foodstuffs like meat are imported). The price of those imports will go up by the amount of the tariff imposed. His projected tariff on Mexico is 25%, and it's expected to be the same for many other countries. That would raise the price of imports from Mexico (where we get a lot of our fruits and vegetables) by a whopping 25%!

And it won't be any better for grocery products produced in the United States. A huge portion of the workers on farms are undocumented immigrants (see the chart above) - doing hard labor jobs that Americans don't want. If they are deported, it will be very hard to replace them. Some crops will not be harvested and those that are will cost a lot more. The same is true of ranches and meatpackers.

Trump has made competing promises, which means some will not be kept. The American consumer will pay the price for it.

Trump Made A Lot Of Promises - He Broke All Of Them

When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump made a lot of promises to the American people. Unfortunately, he was lying -- because almost none of those promises were kept.

Here's a short list of some of those problems:

He promised to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. While somewhere between 350 and 400 miles of wall have been built, only about 15 miles were built where no wall previously existed. The rest were just replacing wall that already existed.

He promised Mexico would pay for that wall. Mexico has not paid a penny toward building the wall. The small bit of wall built was financed by stealing money from the military's budget -- money needed to repair and build new facilities for soldiers and their families.

He promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years. He will not get another 4 years (having been defeated in the 2020 election), but in his four years in office he has increased the national debt by trillions of dollars.

He promised to cut taxes for most Americans. He actually did cut taxes, but almost all of the cuts went to corporations and rich Americans. And that tax cut bill had a provision that would start raising taxes on everyone making less than $100,000 a year in 2021, and continue raising those taxes until 2027 (when most workers will be paying more in taxes than they were before the tax cut bill was passed. But the rich and corporations will get to keep those cuts. I consider that another promise broken.

He promised to reduce the trade deficit with China. But his tariff on Chinese goods imported was nothing but a hidden tax on American consumers. China did NOT pay it. American farmers were devastated though as China looked elsewhere for the products they bought. And the tariffs were a failure. The trade deficit with China is larger than it was when Trump took office.

He promised to create a great economy. The economy was good for a while (a continuation of the good economy he inherited from President Obama). But then Trump mishandled the virus pandemic, and created the most serious recession in this country since the Great Depression.

He promised to reform immigration. That never happened. All he did was ban muslims and people of color from entering the country. That's not reform -- it's bigotry.

He promised to unify the country. But early in his term, he called white supremacists "good people". Then went on to refuse to condemn white supremacy or racism, while vilifying the Black Lives Matter movement. His actions have created the worst racial divisions in this country in years, and emboldened racists (who consider him, rightly, to be one of them).

He promised to have a plan to cover all American citizens with health insurance. That plan never happened. All he's done is try to outlaw the Affordable Care Act, which would leave millions more Americans without insurance.

He promised to make America great again. Unfortunately, he meant great for rich white men -- not all Americans.

Trump's term in office has been a disaster. He made beautiful promises, none of which he ever intended to keep. The promises were just more of his lies. The voters were right to kick him out of office.

Trump's Biggest Broken Promises

Donald Trump made a lot of promises -- both before being elected and after. But he has not kept those promises.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich (pictured) gives us the 40 biggest broken promises of Trump.

1. He said coronavirus would “go away without a vaccine.”

You bought it. But it didn’t. While other countries got the pandemic under control and avoided large numbers of fatalities, the virus has killed more than 130,000 Americans*, and that number is still climbing.

2. He said he won’t have time to play golf if elected president. 

But he has made more than 250 visits to his golf clubs since he took office – a record for any president – including more trips during the pandemic than meetings with Dr. Fauci. The total financial cost to America? More than $136 million.

3. He said he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with something “beautiful.”

It didn’t happen. Instead, 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance since he took office. He has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the law in the middle of a global pandemic with no plan to replace it.

4. He said he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. 

He did the opposite. By 2027, the richest 1 percent will have received 83 percent of the Trump tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans will pay more in taxes.

5. He said corporations would use their tax cuts to invest in American workers. 

They didn’t. Corporations spent more of their tax savings buying back shares of their own stock than increasing workers wages. 

6. He said he would boost economic growth by 4 percent a year.

Nope. The economy stalled, and unemployment has soared to the highest levels since the Great Depression. Just over half of working-age Americans are employed – the worst ratio in 70 years.  

7. He said he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” 

His latest budget includes billions in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

8. He promised to be “the voice” of American workers.

He hasn’t. His administration has stripped workers of their rights, repealed overtime protections, rolled back workplace safety rules, and turned a blind eye to employers who steal their workers’ wages.

9. He promised that the average American family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. 

But nothing trickled down. Wages for most Americans have barely kept up with inflation.    

10. He promised that anyone who wants a test for Covid will get one.

But countless Americans still can’t get a test.

11. He said hydroxychloroquine protects against coronavirus.

No way. The FDA revoked its emergency authorization due to the drug’s potentially lethal side effects.

12. He promised to eliminate the federal deficit.

He has increased the federal deficit by more than 60 percent.

13. He said he would hire “only the best people.”

He has fired a record number of his own cabinet and White House picks, and then called them “whackos,” “dumb as a rock,“ and  "not mentally qualified.”  6 of them have been charged with crimes.

14. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs and said drug companies are “getting away with murder.”

They still are. Drug prices have soared, and a company that got federal funds to develop a drug to treat coronavirus is charging $3,000 a pop.=

15. He promised to revive the struggling coal industry and bring back lost coal mining jobs. 

The coal industry has continued to lose jobs as clean energy becomes cheaper. 

16. He promised to help American workers during the pandemic.

But 80% of the tax benefits in the coronavirus stimulus package have gone to millionaires and billionaires. And at least 21 million Americans have lost extra unemployment benefits, with no new stimulus check to fall back on.

17. He said he’d drain the swamp.

Instead, he’s brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, and he’s filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they used to work for.

18. He promised to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.

His Justice Department is trying to repeal the entire Affordable Care Act, including protections for people with preexisting conditions.

19. He said Mexico would pay for his border wall.

The wall is estimated to cost American taxpayers an estimated $11 billion.

20. He promised to bring peace to the Middle East.

Instead, tensions have increased and his so-called “peace plan” was dead on arrival.

21. He promised to lock up Hillary Clinton for using a private email server.

He didn’t. Funny enough, Trump uses his personal cell-phone for official business, and several members of his own administration, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka, have used private email in the White House.

22. He promised to use his business experience to whip the federal government into shape.

He hasn’t. His White House is in permanent chaos. He caused the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history when he didn’t get funding for his wall.

23. He promised to end DACA. 

The Supreme Court ruled that his plan to deport 700,000 young immigrants was unconstitutional, and DACA still stands.  

24. He promised “six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit.”

He hasn’t delivered.

25. He promised to bring an end to Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program.

Kim is expanding North Korea’s nuclear program.

26. He said he would distance himself from his businesses while in office.

He continues to make money from his properties and maintain his grip on his real estate empire.

27. He said he’d force companies to keep jobs in America, and that there would be consequences for companies that shipped jobs abroad.

Since he took office, companies like GE, Carrier, Ford, and Harley Davidson have continued to outsource thousands of jobs while still receiving massive tax breaks. And offshoring by federal contractors has increased.

28. He promised to end the opioid crisis. 

Americans are now more likely to die from an opioid overdose than a car accident.

29. He said he’d release his tax returns.

It’s been nearly 4 years. He hasn’t released his tax returns.

30. He promised to tear up the Iran nuclear deal and renegotiate a better deal. 

Negotiations have gone nowhere, and he brought us to the brink of war.

31. He promised to enact term limits for all members of Congress.

He has not even tried to enact term limits.

32. He promised that China would pay for tariffs on imported goods.

His trade war has cost U.S. consumers $34 billion a year, eliminated 300,000 American jobs, and cost American taxpayers $22 billion in subsidies for farmers hurt by the tariffs.

33. He promised to “push colleges to cut the skyrocketing cost of tuition.” 

Instead, he’s made it easier for for-profit colleges to defraud students, and tuition is still rising.

34. He promised to protect American steel jobs.

The steel industry continues to lose jobs.

35. He promised tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would spur economic growth and pay for themselves.

His tax cuts will add $2 trillion to the federal deficit.

36. After pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, he said he’d negotiate a better deal on the environment.

He hasn’t attempted to negotiate any deal.  

37. He promised that the many women who accused him of sexual misconduct “will be sued after the election is over.”

He hasn’t sued them, presumably because he doesn’t want the truth to come out.

38. He promised to bring back all troops from Afghanistan.

He now says: "We’ll always have somebody there.”

39. He pledged to put America first. 

Instead, he’s deferred to dictators and authoritarians at America’s expense, and ostracized our allies — who now laugh at us behind our back.

40. He promised to be the voice of the common people.

He’s made his rich friends richer, increased the political power of big corporations and the wealthy, and harmed working Americans.Don’t let the liar-in-chief break any more promises. Vote him out in November.

Trump Promised To Help Workers - He Has Betrayed Them

When he ran for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump said he would help working people in this country. But like all of his other promises, he has failed to do that. He has betrayed those workers by directing all his attention to providing for the rich and corporations, while ignoring anything that would benefit hurting workers.

Here's is part of how Katrina Vanden Heuvel describes this betrayal in The Washington Post:

Trump promised to overturn the establishment that had rigged the economy against them. He would bring back good jobs (especially in manufacturing) with “America first“ trade policies and by taking on China. He would replace Obamacare with a cheaper and better system. He would rebuild America’s decrepit infrastructure, “drain the swamp” and make America great again.

It was all a con. His first priority and major “accomplishment” was a tax-cut bill that lined the pockets of CEOs and investors, while the promised $4,000 raises for working families never showed up. The bill even slipped in lower tax rates for companies that moved jobs abroad. Trump slapped tariffs on China, rewrote the North American Free Trade Agreement and gelded the World Trade Organization. But his gyrations offered little help to working people. Even in Trump’s best year before the pandemic, the economy didn’t grow as fast as it had in the peak years under Obama or George W. Bush, and the millions of manufacturing jobs he promised to bring back never showed up.

Instead, his tariff wars disrupted the markets for farmers — so he ladled out tens of billions in public subsidies, only for most of that money to go to big, industrial farms while smaller farmers got stiffed. He never offered an alternative to Obamacare, though he did whittle away at it, depriving millions of coverage. He never put forward an infrastructure plan. He didn’t even get much of the wall built, and the U.S. military, not Mexico, paid for what was done. . . .

For Trump, cleaning out the swamp turned out to be — as his former top strategist, the recently indicted Stephen K. Bannon, put it — the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Instead of curbing big money and entrenched interests, he unleashed their lobbyists to roll back regulations that protect consumers, small business and the environment from their depredations — from clean air and water protections to antitrust enforcement. The clear and present threat posed by catastrophic climate change was simply denied. His recent assault on the post office is already hitting seniors and veterans, many in the rural counties that voted for him, who depend on the Postal Service to deliver their medicines.

Working men and women — the essential workers of all races — suffered directly from Trump’s failure to respond sensibly to the pandemic. Now their children in public schools — pushed to open without resources for needed precautions — will be at risk in Trump and his party’s rush to get the economy going before November. And most cruelly, Trump and the Republican Senate are blocking continued assistance to the millions who have been thrown out of work as the economy shut down. He promised them good jobs. He ended by torpedoing the help they need simply to pay the rent.

This week, the real question is whether Trump can con his own followers once more. At their convention, Democrats focused on Trump’s lack of character and competence. But as despair rises, Trump’s “violation of norms” or the fact that, as his sister Maryanne Trump Barry said, he has “no principles,” aren’t his greatest weaknesses. His true vulnerability is that he has betrayed those who brought him to power. Over the next 70 days, Democrats must make certain that reality doesn’t get drowned out.

More Evidence Of Trump's Broken Promises To Workers

When running for office in 2016, and after assuming office, Donald Trump made some big promises to make life better for American workers.

He promised that his tax cuts would increase worker wages by an average of $4000 a year. That did not happen. The rich and the corporations enjoyed huge tax cuts, but did not pass those savings on to workers. Worker wages remained pretty flat -- and workers never saw that $4000 raise.

Trump also promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States (mainly through his trade war with China). But while that trade war devastated farmers in the United States, it has not brought any manufacturing jobs back to this country. In fact, just the opposite seems to be happening.

The chart above shows what is happening with manufacturing jobs in the states that Trump won in 2016 by less than 5 points -- states that he must win in 2020 to stay in office. The numbers are not good.

Only two of the six states had an increase in manufacturing jobs -- Arizona with an increase of 6,500 and Florida with an increase of 5,000.

The other four states have all lost manufacturing jobs since Trump assumed office. Michigan has lost 4,700 jobs, North Carolina has lost 7,700 jobs, Pennsylvania has lost 8,100 jobs, and Wisconsin has lost 6,500 jobs.

Broken promises is all Donald Trump has to offer American workers.