Former Obama adviser Bill Burton tried math on Sunday to make a point about Donald Trump. It didn’t go well:
We are literally only 1/2 of 1% into Donald Trump's 4 year term.
Forget your own misery, imagine how miserable he'd be if he realized that.
— Bill Burton (@billburton) April 2, 2017
Note the use of “literally” above. Now for the fact check, coincidentally from another Obama adviser:
https://twitter.com/austan_goolsbee/status/848614909847928832
Burton’s more of a “reading guy,” which doesn’t address his Bidenesque misuse of “literally”:
Didn't get into politics bc I was good at math! I'm more of a reading guy.
— Bill Burton (@billburton) April 2, 2017
Shouldn’t we expect senior White House advisers to have mastered counting and percentages before taking the job?
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