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Joe Biden slams Trump for 'spiking the ball' despite high unemployment

  
Via:  Nerm_L  •  4 years ago  •  8 comments

By:   Bart Jansen (USA TODAY)

Joe Biden slams Trump for 'spiking the ball' despite high unemployment
Former Vice President Joe Biden said President Trump was out of touch with millions who remain unemployed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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President Joe voicing grievances, resentment, and an alternate version of history.  Right on cue.

Kick the can, President Joe.  Kick the can.  


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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, accused President Donald Trump of "spiking the ball" Friday by celebrating improving jobs numbers when 20 million people are still unemployed.

"Donald Trump still doesn't get it," Biden said at Delaware State University, a historically black school, in Dover. "He's out there spiking the ball completely oblivious to the tens of millions of people who are facing the greatest struggle of their lives. These folks aren't feeling any less pain today than they were yesterday."

His speech came on a day of improving job and unemployment figures that beat the projections of many economists. The unemployment rate fell to 13.3% in May, down from 14.7% in April. And the economy gained 2.5 million jobs, after 20.5 million were lost in April.

Trump celebrated the gains in a Rose Garden news conference Friday morning, saying the economy is making "a big comeback" after being decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden congratulated those who found jobs. But he said there were still 13 million fewer jobs than when he and former President Barack Obama left office. Hispanic unemployment is four times higher than "when Trump botched his response to the pandemic," Biden said.

"It's time for him to step out of his own bunker and look at the consequences of his words and his actions," Biden said. "Let's be clear. A president who takes no responsibility for costing millions and millions of Americans their jobs, deserves no credit when a fraction return."

At the White House news conference, Trump said the U.S. is testing more than Germany and South Korea for coronavirus. But Biden noted that the United States has only 4% of the world's population and more than one-fourth of the COVID-19 deaths at more than 108,000.

"The president did not act quickly when he was warned to act," Biden said. "These are some of the sternest challenges our nation has ever faced and Donald Trump is patting himself on the back. He just has no idea, in my view, what's really going on in this country."

Biden noted that the country faced the pandemic at the same time as historic job losses that hit minority communities hardest.

"For an enormous swath of our country, their dreams are still on hold," said Biden, who said he would release economic proposals "in the coming weeks."

"We're still facing devastating unemployment and still facing a historic health crisis," he said.

Biden's speech comes after isolating for weeks at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. He met Monday with church leaders in Wilmington and gave a speech Tuesday in Philadelphia about George Floyd's death in police custody.

At one point during Trump's news conference, the president said: "Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, 'This is a great thing that's happening for our country.' It's a great day for him. It's a great day for everybody." But Biden blasted Trump for the comments about a man whose final words were that he couldn't breathe.

"He was speaking of a man who was brutally killed by an act of needless violence and by a larger tide of injustice that has metastasized on this president's watch as he's moved to split us based on race, religion and ethnicity," Biden said. "For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable."

Nearly 1.9 million people filed for unemployment during the week ending May 30, which was 249,000 fewer than the week earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. Biden said Thursday that black and Latino businesses had been shut out of recovery funds and he highlighted the need to prevent further income inequality. After 42 million people have filed for unemployment benefits, 11% of whites report having been laid off or furloughed, compared to 16% for blacks and 20% for Latinos, he said.

"Trump has failed to take seriously not just the scale of this problem, but also who is most impacted," Biden said. "We must turn this moment into an opportunity to rebuild our country upon more just and equal foundations, not widen race-based wealth and income gaps."


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Nerm_L
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1  seeder  Nerm_L    4 years ago

President Joe seems to think bad new IS good news.  Joe Biden can't be happy until no one is happy.  For Democrats there's always an extremely bad side to any good news.

Yep, President Joe, we all know the United States sucks.  So, naturally we should vote for a candidate that sucks, too.

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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1.1  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Nerm_L @1    4 years ago

You probably will.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @1.1    4 years ago

No....I doubt if many rational, sane, intelligent, and educated people will be voting for feeble old Joe.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.2  XXJefferson51  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @1.1    4 years ago

I’m not voting for Biden and he truly sucks 

 
 
 
Snuffy
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1.2  Snuffy  replied to  Nerm_L @1    4 years ago

Well,  Joe is doing what a candidate from the opposition party has to do.  What the poor guy doesn't get is that these job numbers caught everybody by suprise. Nobody thought they would be this good this early.  And everybody knows the economy plays into President Trump's re-election chances so of course the opposition has to attempt to downplay or ridicule the President. I didn't see Trump spiking any football,  he was his normal overly optimistic self. I also heard that reporter from NPR asking how could this be a victory if black unemployment went up by .1%.  Gotta find a way to throw some dirt..  Can't be happy for one second that something good has happened.  I'll be watching the news for the next few weeks and in between wanting to scratch my eyes out I'll be listening to them waiting for them to start predicting a downturn..  after all this had to be a fluke and how we're not out of the woods yet and the economy is recovering for some but not for all...  more pushing to divide us as a people. 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.3  Greg Jones  replied to  Nerm_L @1    4 years ago

Trump was right wanting to get the country back to work, so his positive position and attitude boosted the confidence and hopes of the American people.

Another win for Trump. His detractors lose again. It has become apparent that they wanted the bad times last until late in the year.

 
 
 
pat wilson
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1.3.1  pat wilson  replied to  Greg Jones @1.3    4 years ago
so his positive position and attitude boosted the confidence and hopes of the American people.

What utter bullshit. Almost all of these jobs were people returning to the jobs they that they'd been laid off from. This POS impostor doesn't boost anything but hate, fear and divisiveness.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.3.2  XXJefferson51  replied to  pat wilson @1.3.1    4 years ago

Of course no president would ever be happy that we now have 10 million more jobs now than we thought we would.  Can’t have any happiness around here. Good news free zones, right?  

 
 

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