White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as his predecessor, Barack Obama, did during his entire time in office.
Sanders asserted at a White House press briefing Tuesday that Trump had tripled Obama's eight-year job creation record in just 18 months, quoting numbers that are not even close to accurate.
"This president since he took office, in the year and a half that he's been here has created 700,000 new jobs for African-Americans," Sanders told reporters Tuesday. "That's 700,000 African-Americans that are working now that weren't working when this president took place. When President Obama left, after eight years in office, he had only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans."