Donald Trump has done it again. He President of the United States He has decided Use the lie and half truths To justify his actions, something that we have already seen on other occasions, such as when he made his first speech after becoming the winner of the elections.
In this way, it seems that Trump has decided to maintain some of the fallacies that already We have heard previously Although it has already been corrected on more than one occasion. In the speech he has made In the United States Congress, That has been the longest in history in a joint session of both cameras, the US president has given an ad and pronounced many lies.
The announcement is that it will impose Tariffs to the European Union As of April 2. From here, everything has been a set of falsehoods and half truths to justify their policy.
Inflation in the US
On the one hand, Trump has assured that the EU does not allow American products to enter. A moment that has taken advantage of CArgar against Joe Bidenblaming him for the “out of control” price of eggs and attributing the greatest inflation in the history of the United States. A fact that is completely false.
While Joe Biden was ruling, it is true that inflation shot up with the Ukraine War, reaching 9.1%. However, in the time of Jimmy Carter, inflation became 14.2% during the oil crisis.
US has not allocated more money to Ukraine than Europe
On the other hand, during his speech he also wanted to mention one of his favorite lies even though he has already been denied on more than one occasion. Donald Trump continues to say that the US has delivered $ 350,000 To Ukraine From the Russian invasion, while Europe has only contributed 100,000 million.
This statement that is not based on any data. According to the Kiel Institute for the world economy, the US has allocated around 120,000 million. Meanwhile, among military, financial or even humanitarian resources, Europe has contributed more than 132,000 million euros, which are 18,000 more than the United States. And if we talk only about military equipment, between Europe, Australia and Canada It has delivered almost 3.5 billion euros more than the United States.
A difference that will be even greater when all that European aid that is compromised and that has not yet delivered has come to Ukraine.
Musk and his work in the government efficiency department
During his speech, he also wanted to take advantage to thank Elon Musk for the work he is doing In the government efficiency department. “He is working very hard. He didn’t need this, thank you very much, we appreciate it,” Trump said.
The truth is that on repeated occasions he has repeated to have discovered fraud in public spending. However, many of the examples cited to justify this statement have turned out to be false.
One of the most striking cases was the alleged investment of 50 million dollars In condoms for Gaza, something that turned out to be completely invented.
According to ‘The New York Times’, documents published by the Musk team detail less than 9,000 million dollars in savings for canceled government contracts, but none of them involved fraud.
Data from an old survey
The president of the United States has not hesitated to affirm that, “For the first time in modern history”, There are more Americans who believe that the country “goes in the right direction.”
However, despite the security with which he made these statements, Trump seemed to be citing a single survey published three weeks ago by the firm Rasmussen, of republican trend, which showed 47% in favor of the right direction despite 46% against.
This, in fact, is not the most recent survey of this firm, which later found that 45% of Americans believe that the country is in the right direction, while 50% think otherwise.
Other surveys without republican affiliation show a different image. The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey, held at the end of February, points out that 49% of Americans believe that the country goes in the wrong address and only 34% in the correct one.
A poll of Economist/Yougov last week found that 50% of respondents think that the country is on the wrong way, compared to 38% who believe otherwise.
Finally, Morning Consult’s most recent poll, published this Sunday, shows that 56% of Americans They believe that the country is in the wrong direction, compared to 44% who think it is going well.
Payments to deceased
Another of the lies that has been repeated is the assumption payment to millions of deaths. Trump, in a speech that has lasted an hour and 40 minutes, stressed that a database of social security administration includes millions of people who would be over 110 years old.
‘The Guardian’ already revealed, when Musk said that “A simple social security examination“He showed that” we have 150 years old “in the system, which was misrepresenting a real problem that could allow fraud, but that apparently does not.
The Social Security Administration has a procedure to verify if a person is still alive when he reaches 100 years, preventing his accounts from being used fraudulently.
Source: Lasexta
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