Top Joe aide raked for rosy ’21 depiction

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has been slammed on social media for sharing an opinion piece arguing that the first year of the Biden administration wasn’t so bad.

Klain on Sunday tweeted a link to an article by Albert Hunt published in The Hill called “Let’s be honest: 2021 wasn’t all bad.”

The article led off with “good news” by calling the departure of former President Donald Trump the “most positive development of 2021” and describing the Trump administration as “‘The Godfather’ without the skill.”

The article also highlighted a drop in the unemployment rate, the bipartisan tributes to the late Sen. Bob Dole and a “scandalfree” presidential administration.

Of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the story agreed that the pullout was “painful” and “politically costly” to the president, but claimed there was “no good ending” to the two-decade war against the Taliban, and insisted that “it’s good that young American men and women no longer are in combat situations in hopeless places like Afghanistan and Iraq.”

But several social-media users pointed out various crises the op-ed did not mention, including record numbers of attempted crossings of the US-Mexico border, levels of inflation not seen in nearly four decades and a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

“Tell that to the families of all the people that died from COVID,” one person shot back at Klain’s positive take.

“No, it was actually pretty bad,” a second user tweeted.

One Twitter user observed: “When you have to point out ‘it wasn’t all that bad’, it was All That Bad. And more.” Callie Patteson