Democratic Strategist Mocks Trump’s Math: ‘You Can’t Have More Than 100 Percent of Jobs Going to Migrants’
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A Democratic strategist couldn’t contain his laughter Thursday night on CNN when asked if Donald Trump could stick to a message, before criticizing media outlets for falling into what he described as a familiar trap—giving Trump free air time for what was billed as a press conference but turned out to be a campaign rally, told Raw Story.
Keith Boykin, speaking on “Newsnight,” argued that Trump’s event at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club was anything but a traditional press conference. “He fooled the press again — once again — by claiming he was going to have a press conference,” Boykin remarked. “He spoke for 45 minutes before he even allowed a question to be asked. And when he did, he was just filled with lies over again!”
Boykin highlighted a particularly dubious claim made by Trump during the event, where the former president asserted, “Virtually 100 percent of the net job creation in the last year have gone to migrants.” Trump then suggested, without any supporting evidence, that the real number could be “substantially more than — actually beyond that number of 100 percent.”
Boykin didn’t hold back in his response to Trump’s statement. “I guess I need my calculator so I can go shoplifting with Donald Trump because clearly, you can’t have more than 100 percent of jobs going to migrants. You can’t even have 100 percent of new jobs going to migrants. It’s not only mathematically impossible, it’s just plain stupid.”
Continuing his critique, Boykin questioned how Trump is still being taken seriously as a candidate for the presidency. “How does this guy get taken seriously? How is it that he is a presidential candidate for the highest office in our country when he can’t even complete a press conference without spewing lies and misinformation and obvious falsehoods?”
Boykin’s comments underscore a broader frustration among some political commentators and strategists who believe that Trump’s tactics continue to manipulate media coverage, allowing him to spread misinformation under the guise of legitimate press engagements. His remarks also raise questions about the responsibility of media outlets in covering such events, especially when they deviate so far from traditional press conferences and venture into campaign rally territory.
