Lara Trump claimed low unemployment under her father-in-law Donald Trump on Fox News, but social media users provided context showing she was misleading.
While Donald Trump left office with 6.3% unemployment, it was higher than the 3.5% rate when he took office.
“We remember Donald Trump as president for four years. You remember how low the unemployment number actually was — the real unemployment number,” Lara Trump said.
Wrong, @LaraLeaTrump
The unemployment rate was 4.6% when Trump took office,
It rose to 14.8%, the highest level seen since the Great Depression in April 2020, and when he left office was still higher than in 2017 (6.4%}
See graph https://t.co/WYyPk7n7ky pic.twitter.com/RewldvNNX5— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd) April 2, 2024
Unemployment skyrocketed to 14.7% during the 2020 pandemic under Trump.
Under Biden, unemployment dipped back down to pre-pandemic lows of 3.4%.
Rep. Sean Casten sarcastically questioned trusting Lara Trump’s honesty given her marriage to Eric Trump.
“I may have to revisit my prior assumptions that anyone who chose to marry Eric Trump is an upstanding, honest broker who cares only about the perfection of our great American experiment,” Casten wrote.
Last month, Lara Trump was also mocked for claiming life was better under Donald Trump in 2020 than now, as many pointed to Trump’s mishandling of the COVID pandemic in response.
“You can compare very easily how much better your life was with Donald Trump in office and how much worse you are now that Joe Biden is in office,” she said.
Social media provided needed context showing Lara Trump’s unemployment claims were misleading and ignored the pandemic’s impact.
