"We've
ended the war on clean beautiful coal. And we're putting our miners
back to work," he said. "Last week a brand new coal mine just opened in
the state of Pennsylvania. First time in decades. Decades. We've
reversed it. And 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my
inauguration."
"We've
ended the war on clean beautiful coal. And we're putting our miners
back to work," he said. "Last week a brand new coal mine just opened in
the state of Pennsylvania. First time in decades. Decades. We've
reversed it. And 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my
inauguration."
"We've
ended the war on clean beautiful coal. And we're putting our miners
back to work," he said. "Last week a brand new coal mine just opened in
the state of Pennsylvania. First time in decades. Decades. We've
reversed it. And 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my
inauguration."
"We've ended the war on clean beautiful coal. And we're putting our
miners back to work," he said. "Last week a brand new coal mine just
opened in the state of Pennsylvania. First time in decades. Decades.
We've reversed it. And 33,000 mining jobs have been added since my
inauguration."Trump has regularly claimed that the United States has added more jobs during his tenure than it actually has.
On June 1 he claimed that there had been "more than 1 million private sector jobs" created since he took office. His chief economic adviser Gary Cohn explained he was using an estimate from payroll service ADP, which said 1.2 million jobs were added from January through May.
But that figure is questionable for a couple of reasons. First, it includes January, when President Obama was in office for most of the month. Without January the number of jobs added slips to under 1 million.
Read more: There are Trump's claims about jobs. And then there are the numbers - Jun. 22, 2017
