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Kellyanne Conway Says Melania Trump Deserves Credit For People Living Longer Lives
The CDC reported Thursday U.S. life expectancy rose for the first time in four years, thanks to a drop in deaths from drug overdoses and cancer.
What’s driving those improvements? Well, the better question would be “who?” if White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has it right:
‘This has not happened through coincidence, it’s happened through causation. It’s owing in large part to a whole-of-government approach to treat the whole person led by President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and really the entire administration.’
Conway, a fierce and often delusional supporter of President Donald Trump, said those words during a press conference on Thursday, where she was grilled about the impeachment trial.
As for the report, life expectancy reached 78.7 years in 2018, a bump of about a month, on average, from the prior year. Despite the uptick, the number is still lower compared to the peak of 78.9 years that Americans reached in 2014.
Conway offered no proof of her claims that a “whole of government approach to treat the whole person” effort actually exists, despite her tweeting that phrase out last year. Nor did she offer proof if it does exist it has had any impact.
Kellyanne Conway claims that "life expectancy in America has increased" because of a "whole of government approach to treat the whole person led by President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and really the entire administration." The CDC report this is based on doesnt say this. pic.twitter.com/82neKPfFpX
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 30, 2020
Twitter was sickened:
This is like when Trump claimed that he was responsible for the lack of plane crashes. https://t.co/KZKTvK6BhH
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 30, 2020
Astounding the level they will stoop to. And even more astounding the utter bull$hit the cult of trump will believe. I swear to God if I didn't know better I'd think they were just 'punking' us to see what they can get away with.
— TBoop (@onilantime) January 30, 2020
OMG! Government propaganda here, is worse than North Korea and Russia!#AlternativeFacts#KellyanneLiesAgain
— Rebecca Wyche 🌵🏜 🆘️ 🌊🗽🌈 (@rebecca_wyche) January 30, 2020
Seriously… we are subjected to a propaganda fueled dictatorship… really… next … press conference will be to bless the almighty true son god…the great and powerful Orange… are there truly more stupid people than smart in America… is this what Trumpism banks on!!!!
— BlueSox Nation (@sstmar) January 30, 2020
At this point they’re just fucking with us. Why not take credit for defeating the Night King? Trump had as much to do with that as he did life expectancy.
This is the worst timeline. https://t.co/9B9oxPZtlW
— Elon James White (@elonjames) January 30, 2020
This is like when the dumbest person in your group takes credit for doing all the work in the group project https://t.co/mvjyJTpEUe
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) January 30, 2020
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