of Course he was taken out of context - he did not say at any point that he's given them a 10% pay rise but stated that thats what he said to his administration when they were trying to knock their pay increases down to 1%Trump said he gave them a 10% pay rise!!! He lied straight to their faces!!!
But here are the details.
So you see - at no point did he say that HE GOT THEM a 10% pay rise in one calendar year.President Trump said: "You protect us. We are always going to protect you. And you just saw that, 'cause you just got one of the biggest pay raises you've ever received. ... You haven't gotten one in more than 10 years. More than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one.”
Later he went on to say: "They had plenty of people that came up, they said, 'You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3%, we could make it 2%, we could make it 4%,'" Trump told the troops about the latest pay raise. "I said, 'No. Make it 10%. Make it more than 10%.’"
But the fake news media have lost their minds along with other liberal liars who want to push the lie.
So lets have a look at what the Troops will get over Trumps 4 years as President.
so what did Obama pay them over his past 4 years?What he did imply is that he had given them a raise of roughly 10%. At 2.4% per year times 4 years he will have overseen a raise of 9.6% for the troops in his first term
What if Trump wins 2020?Comparatively over Obama’s last 4 years that administration served up a whopping 1.25% pay raise per year equalling roughly half of Trump’s raise over an equally comparable period of time.
The media will try and find anything to attack Trump and Melania.If Trump’s consistency holds for the duration of two full terms he will deliver up nearly 19.2% in pay increases over the course of his time in office, shattering Obama’s totals
They started putting out that he was the first President since 2002 that hasn't visited the Troops at Christmas
Only an idiot would advertise that the President was to Travel to Iraq on any particular day.
But 2 hours later the likes of CNN and MSNBC had Egg all over their stupid faces when Trump Magically turned up in Iraq to visit the Soldiers
so now with egg all over their stupid faces what did they do??
Well, you guessed it, they did their best to try and pick apart his trip in any way - from Trump signing soldiers MAGA hats to other Liberal Dimwits attacking Melania about her boots that she wore into the combat zone.
Didn't bother mentioning that she is one of a few First Ladies to actually go to the CZ and personally thank the troops for this great work.
and I wonder how Bitter some people can be - to be constantly negative and spiteful. Folks like that must die a miserable death.