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[dave is ok]

This was Obama's starting point...

1/20/2009:
Unemployment rate: 7.8% (and trending up)
GDP: 8.2% decrease (4th quarter of 2008)
Dow: 7,949.09
S&P500: 805.22
NASDAQ: 1,440.86
Jobs No: 661,000 net jobs lost (December 2008 jobs number).

This is Trump's starting point.... (And the results of Obama's leadership)

1/20/2017:
Unemployment rate: 4.7% (and trending down/steady)
GDP: 3.5% increase (4th quarter of 2016)
Dow: 19,732.40
S&P500: 2,263.69
NASDAQ: 5,540.08
Jobs No: 156,000 net jobs added (December 2016 jobs number).

If Trump wants to be just as successful as Obama, he will need the following by 2025.

Unemployment rate: 2.9%
GDP: 10.0% increase.
Dow: 49,398.00 to match Obama's 150.33% increase
S&P500: 6,379.00 to match Obama's 181.79% increase
NASDAQ: 23,966.00 to match Obama's 332.58% increase
Jobs No: 600,000 net jobs added.


But, he ran on that whole Make America Great Again crap, so he will need to do vastly better than Obama and all of his "failed policies".

Come on.

Using the late 2008 early 2009 numbers is stupid.

It was stupid when they tried to use them against Obama by saying 'Gas prices were 1 dollar per gallon when Obama took office' too.

 

[NullPointer]

The difference in reaction between Obama and Trump is astounding.

The difference in character, poise and breadth of knowledge between the two is just as astounding.

One is a role model. The other is just a role.

 

[Seventy70]

Obama's speech with the side video of Trump sitting at the table is surreal.

 

[BigDug13]

50% of the country wouldn't agree.

50% of the country or 50% of people who voted?

 

[Kindekuma]

THE KID TOUCHING THE PENS
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
STOP TOUCHING THE PENSSSSS

 

[Nafai1123]

50% of the country wouldn't agree.

Your math is wrong.

 

[RoKKeR]

This side-by-side right now is fucking painful to witness

 

[disappeared]

I'm getting teary-eyed listening to Obama's farewell

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Come on.

Using the late 2008 early 2009 numbers is stupid.

It was stupid when they tried to use them against Obama by saying 'Gas prices were 1 dollar per gallon when Obama took office' too.

Obama isn't allowed to use the start date of his presidency as the start date of his presidency?

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

50% of the country wouldn't agree.

Didn't know Trump had a 50% approval rating

 

[Ekai]

Mike Pence joining the ticket was the end of any question about those fears. Before that it was a sort of frigid indifference. After that, it was beyond clear where the administration would go.

Anybody unwilling to see that is being willfully ignorant. The man's record speaks for itself.

I know. That poster just denies the reality of what they willingly voted for.

 

[adj_noun]

It was a dark speech, why would anyone pretend otherwise?

Optimism plus naiveté. It's what explains the GIVE HIM A CHANCE crowd.

 

[Jeevesmeister]

Pretty sad when Netflix, Google and major corporations are the only things allowing us to have a network freedom.

hahaha actually Silicon Valley said Trump would be the first "innovation administration" you fools

 

[BahamutPT]

LMAO Trump taking the pen from the kid!

(I know they're still getting one, but it was funny)

 

[jfkgoblue]

Trump already signing executive orders.

 

[newshinycd]

Obama getting cut off for Trump.

God fucking damn it.

 

[Lonestar]

I'm ok with that little kid making the choices. Any of those little kids.

 

[Iksenpets]

Doesn't matter how he got in to Harvard... he graduated cum laude. Or was that paid for too? His professors must've been paid off.

He also got an MBA from NYU.

Have you never heard of grade inflation? Once you're accepted to an elite school, it's near impossible to get a bad grade.

 

[manzoman96]

Wait Rex actually got approved!?

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Man look at Paul Ryan sucking that dick.

 

[RinsFury]

Just saw my dad rewatching Trump being sworm in and cheering out loud. I'm so fucking sick and depressed right now, I wouldn't be living here if I wasn't broke. Fucking asshole.

 

[disappeared]

oh fuck you nbc cut off obama

 

[smokeymicpot]

Trump is gonna sign shit. Fuck. Hope it isn't anything to major.

 

[NullPointer]

Wait Rex actually got approved!?

Who is there to stop them?

 

[kamspy]

Are approval rating polls done by the same groups who did the wonderful election polls?

 

[dickroach]

It was a dark speech, why would anyone pretend otherwise?

I'm just surprised they're being so blunt about it

 

[marrec]

Didn't know Trump had a 50% approval rating

Or even 50% of the popular vote.

 

[MUnited83]

50% of the country wouldn't agree.

*19%

 

[RoKKeR]

Lol at this kid

This kid is America

 

[Dunedain_Ranger]

Obama getting cut off for Trump.

God fucking damn it.

Out with the old sadly

 

[cyress8]

Look like you added some letters to your name.
Did he just fucking say that while Trump is signing?

Guess Trump scribbles his name while signing

 

[Brinbe]

Still doesn't seem real.

 

[mercenar1e]

Your math is wrong.

much better math than the pollsters.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Wait Rex actually got approved!?

Dude they are all going to get confirmed

much better math than the pollsters.

Lol

 

[BowieZ]

Wait Rex actually got approved!?

It was actually a tactless joke.

It requires Lil Rubio and the faux-Democrat Manchin to reject him.

 

[rjinaz]

It is sad that we are going to see so little diversity the next 4 years. It really feels like moving backwards. So many White faces everywhere. I'm White and still see it.

 

[DeviantBoi]

Looks like Anonymous is gonna make Trump regret the next 4 years:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anonymous-trump-regret_us_58818bf3e4b096b4a230ff08

.@realDonaldTrump you have financial and personal ties with Russian mobsters, child traffickers, and money launderers.

This isn't the 80's any longer, information doesn't vanish, it is all out there. You are going to regret the next 4 years. @realDonaldTrump

We could care less about Democrats attacking you @realDonaldTrump, the fact of the matter is, you are implicated in some really heavy shit.

 

[Cybrwzrd]

Obama isn't allowed to use the start date of his presidency as the start date of his presidency?

Apparently not. Obama was apparently responsible for the crash in '08 now, and probably 9/11, and maybe the Great Depression with his famous Time Machine.

 

[Zapages]

The kid in the back is really stealing the show away from Trump's signing.

 

[DNAbro]

much better math than the pollsters.

lol

 

[smokeymicpot]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signs legislation allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as Defense Secretary.

I am okay with this.

 

[davepoobond]

Obama getting cut off for Trump.

God fucking damn it.

not on CBS. CBS keeping it classy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/

 

[dave is ok]

Obama isn't allowed to use the start date of his presidency as the start date of his presidency?

Sure he is. But it's intellectually dishonest to use the stock market/unemployment numbers during a crash to show incredible growth.

 

[dankir]

What on earth have you done America?

 

[SilentRob]

Yo, he's literally Satan, yo. Hitler, too!

You don't read GAF enough.

If you actually, honestly, earnestly listen to Hitler's speeches during his rise to power, when he was democratically elected, like I had to during school many, many times and have continued to do ever since then to remind myself what the start of facism looks like, you will see how absolutely disturbingly similiar his speeches and this inauguration speech was. The invoking of the blood of patriots. The incredible nationalism.

It's fucking frightening watching this from Europe. Just a few days ago a leading politician from right-wing AFD held a speech that was absolutely destroyed and shredded by german media and politicians because it reminded everyone so much of how the Nazis talked. The man got rightfully eviscerated on the public stage. This inauguration speech was worse than that.

 

[Dalibor68]

*19%

Not to take his side, but I don't think we can make any statement about what those who didn't vote agree or do not agree with.

 

[Pandaman]

LOL BBC NEWS found a Russian guy who attended.

.

 

[newshinycd]

Having the whiny kids in the same room with Trump, LOL.

It's as if we are hearing Trumps internal thoughts channeled through the kids.

 

[Polioliolio]

Sad fucking day.

All that God shit in the speech was scary too, immediately followed three speakers with God talk, one saying that it rained when Trump stepped to the podium because in the bible, something something rain is from God.

 

[dickroach]

Looks like Anonymous is gonna make Trump regret the next 4 years:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anonymous-trump-regret_us_58818bf3e4b096b4a230ff08

ytf didnt they do this 6 months ago