Well, today, Donald Trump wide his way through a few questions from reporters about his

economic plans, while President Joe Biden described accurately what his policies have done

for the economy and what the long-term infrastructure projects he's invested in will continue to

do for this economy and for this country for many, many decades to come.

Donald Trump pulled one of those classic Trumpian stunts today in which he, as president

and the Republicans in Congress, do absolutely nothing. They do absolutely nothing while

taking credit for a private company making

an announcement about an investment that it was probably going to make an announcement about,

and that it might or might not be true, like all such announcements, and might or might not

create jobs in this country. This time it was a Japanese technology firm called

SoftBank. Donald Trump promised that SoftBank would invest $100 billion in American projects and

create 100,000 new jobs over the next four years. The New York Times immediately pointed out

that this idea echoed a $50 billion commitment. SoftBank made after

Trump's victory in 2016, that promise was followed by investments in a host of fledgling

startups, some that surged and others that ran into trouble, including the co-working company

WeWork and a company called Zoom that used

robots to make pizza. Now, if you haven't had a pizza made by a robot lately, that's because

that foolish investment announced with much fanfare, the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency,

failed completely. And that company beginning of Donald Trump's presidency failed completely,

and that company that Donald Trump championed as if he created himself shut down.

The same thing with WeWork, which also went bankrupt.

While Donald Trump was somehow trying to take credit today for a private company's announcement of its investment plans, President Joe Biden spoke at the Department of Labor about things

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