We\u2019ve documented many times the false claims that former president Donald Trump has made about his achievements during his presidency. But there are also instances when Trump claims credit for something that either Barack Obama or Joe Biden did. Here\u2019s a recent sampling.<\/p>\n
\u201cLow INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it. It was all done long before he so sadly entered office. All he does is try to take credit for things done by others, in this case, ME!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, in a social media post, June 8<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Kamala and Crooked Joe, they try and take credit for $35 insulin. But I was the one that did the $35 insulin, not them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, in a rally speech in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Aug. 17<\/p>\n
\u201cI got insulin down, and they took credit for it, but I got it down to $35. And I said, \u2018I hope I win because somebody\u2019s going to take credit.\u2019 It takes a period of time before it kicks in statutorily. And I got it down to $35, which was a very low price, and they took credit for it, which is, you know, now, I\u2019m taking credit because I\u2019m talking to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, in an interview with comedian Theo Von, Aug. 20<\/p>\n
In a constant refrain, Trump accuses Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of claiming credit for imposing a $35-per-month cap on insulin; in one speech, he denounced it as \u201ca lie.\u201d But this is highly misleading, especially when he says Biden and Harris had nothing to do with a $35 cap.<\/p>\n
Trump did establish a voluntary, time-limited model for a $35 monthly cap on insulin that was only available to some seniors enrolled in certain insurance plans. Less than half of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans chose to participate, and they were able to select what insulin products would be available at $35. Medicare estimated that the two-year model was made available to about 800,000 Medicare enrollees who used insulin.<\/p>\n
Naturally, when Trump ran for re-election in 2020, he falsely claimed that the $35 cap was available to every senior. When he announced the temporary program in 2020, he jabbed, \u201cSleepy Joe can\u2019t do this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even today, notice how Trump, in one interview, said the program took a \u201cperiod of time before it kicks in statutorily.\u201d That misleadingly suggests he passed a law, not just authorized a temporary pilot program.<\/p>\n
A law is what Biden achieved. Over the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (passed with a tiebreaking vote in the Senate by Harris) permanently required all Part D plans to charge no more than $35 per month for all insulin products; it also limited cost sharing for insulin covered under Part B (Medicare medical insurance) to $35 per month. KFF, a nonprofit health-policy organization, estimated that nearly 3.3 million Americans would benefit from this provision of the law. That\u2019s four times more than people who were covered under Trump\u2019s temporary measure.<\/p>\n
Trump announced a small pilot program for a group of seniors with an expiration date; Biden passed a law that benefited every senior. There\u2019s no comparison.<\/p>\n
\u201cAchieved the lowest African American unemployment rate, the lowest ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, in remarks to Black American business leaders, June 26<\/p>\n
The current Black unemployment statistic has been in existence for about 50 years. It fell to 5.3 percent for two months in 2019 during Trump\u2019s presidency before rising to 6.1 percent in February 2020 \u2014 and then of course soared above 15 percent during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Trump keeps talking about this \u201clowest ever\u201d achievement but the Biden-Harris administration topped his brief record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the Black unemployment rate reached a new low of 4.8 percent in April 2023. The unemployment rate was lower or matched Trump\u2019s 5.3 percent for a total of five months under Biden. As of August, the rate is 6.1 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my first term, I gave the VA Choice and made it permanent. You know, VA Choice, when you don\u2019t have a doctor, you go, and you go outside. I mean, people were waiting for four months, for five months. You people probably know it. You have friends that know it very well. They go in for something that was not a big deal, and they\u2019d end up being terminally ill because they couldn\u2019t get to see a doctor. So, I created and have VA Choice. They\u2019d been wanting to do it for 57 years. I got it done, passed in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, remarks to National Guard Association Conference in Detroit, Aug, 26<\/p>\n
This was a favorite claim during Trump\u2019s presidency \u2014 he said it more than 200 times, according to our database of Trump\u2019s false and misleading claims \u2014 but he actually signed the MISSION Act, which was a modest update of the VA Choice law passed by Obama in 2014. The Obama legislation expanded veterans\u2019 ability to go to private doctors.<\/p>\n
In 2020, our colleague Ashley Parker documented how this falsehood took root, using it as an example of Trump\u2019s method. \u201cThe president\u2019s handling of the VA Choice legislation offers a crystalline window into the anatomy of a Trump lie: the initial false claim, the subsequent embellishment and gilding, the incessant repetition and the clear evidence that he knows the truth but chooses to keep telling the falsehood \u2014 all enabled by aides either unwilling or unable to rein him in,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s four years later, and Trump is still trying to claim credit for Obama\u2019s achievement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came into office, the auto industry was on its knees, gasping its last breaths after eight long years of Obama and Biden \u2026 It is no exaggeration to state the Trump presidency and the deftly used and applied Trump tariffs and taxes saved the American auto industry from extinction time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Trump, remarks at a campaign rally in Clinton Township, Mich., Sept. 27, 2023<\/p>\n
Yet another false claim. During the 2008-2009 Great Recession, Obama (and George W. Bush before him) saved the auto industry with significant interventions. Obama\u2019s Treasury Department, for instance, organized taxpayer-financed reorganizations of General Motors and Chrysler. The auto industry was in good shape when Trump took office in 2017.<\/p>\n
Auto retail jobs under Trump declined 77,000 from February 2017 to February 2021, according to the BLS. Auto and auto parts manufacturing jobs saw a slight increase \u2014 2,500 jobs \u2014 in the same period. If one looks at job creation before the pandemic tanked the economy, there were 61,000 new auto manufacturing jobs and 38,000 auto retail jobs under Trump though February 2020.<\/p>\n
But compare that to Obama\u2019s record: a gain of 238,000 auto manufacturing jobs and 332,000 auto retail jobs. That\u2019s a total of 570,000 jobs \u2014 more than five times more than Trump\u2019s pre-pandemic number. Under Biden, auto manufacturing jobs have risen 125,000 and auto retail jobs 146,000 \u2014 almost three times more than Trump\u2019s pre-pandemic number. (In a speech on Tuesday in Savannah, Ga., Trump falsely said \u201cour auto industry has been decimated.\u201d)<\/p>\n
As for Trump\u2019s tariffs on steel and aluminum helping the auto industry, that\u2019s wrong too. Automakers reported that Trump\u2019s tariffs cost hundreds of millions of dollars in profits and led to job losses and plant closings.<\/p>\n
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