It's because he stopped reporting them. Literally. He's dropped more bombs and drone strikes already than any other president, increased the military budget, sells arms to Saudis so they can murder Yemen. Real good guy.
Here. There's plenty of sources if that isn't good enough for you. Hard for those numbers to go up when you don't report them and you give the CIA full control to do their own airstrikes.
The notion that the Obama Administration has carried out drone strikes only when there is “near-certainty of no collateral damage” is easily disproved propaganda. America hasn’t killed a handful of innocents or a few dozen in the last 8 years. Credible, independent attempts to determine how many civilians the Obama administration has killed arrived at numbers in the hundreds or low thousands. And there is good reason to believe that they undercount the civilians killed.
Since 2017, the US has admitted to killing between 4 to 12 civilians, although the real number could be as high as 154 — and 86, at a minimum — according to a new report, "Eroding Transparency," from the monitoring group Airwars. A disproportionate number of those killed died as a result of on-the-ground raids ordered by the Trump administration, the group found: despite accounting for less than 3% of US actions documented by Airwars, such attacks accounted for some 40% of all civilian casualties.
I got a fact for you! Trump cut the civilian casualties of drone strikes in half since obamas time
It's because he stopped reporting them. Literally. He's dropped more bombs and drone strikes already than any other president, increased the military budget, sells arms to Saudis so they can murder Yemen. Real good guy.
Who, Trump? If so I need a source please.
Here. There's plenty of sources if that isn't good enough for you. Hard for those numbers to go up when you don't report them and you give the CIA full control to do their own airstrikes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-gave-cia-power-to-launch-drone-strikes-1489444374
A quick search shows Obama's estimates in the low thousands and Trumps "as high as 154"
Do you have different numbers?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-obama-administrations-drone-strike-dissembling/473541/
The notion that the Obama Administration has carried out drone strikes only when there is “near-certainty of no collateral damage” is easily disproved propaganda. America hasn’t killed a handful of innocents or a few dozen in the last 8 years. Credible, independent attempts to determine how many civilians the Obama administration has killed arrived at numbers in the hundreds or low thousands. And there is good reason to believe that they undercount the civilians killed.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-have-bombed-yemen-more-than-bush-and-obama-combined-2020-10
Since 2017, the US has admitted to killing between 4 to 12 civilians, although the real number could be as high as 154 — and 86, at a minimum — according to a new report, "Eroding Transparency," from the monitoring group Airwars. A disproportionate number of those killed died as a result of on-the-ground raids ordered by the Trump administration, the group found: despite accounting for less than 3% of US actions documented by Airwars, such attacks accounted for some 40% of all civilian casualties.