President Donald Trump responded to a reporter’s query about Friday’s jobs report, which confirmed a terrifying slowdown in job creation, by claiming it was fabricated by unhealthy actors within the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a purpose to make him look unhealthy.
“Why ought to anyone belief numbers?” Trump mentioned earlier than launching right into a semi-coherent and fictional story about election interference by the BLS. “You return to Election—Election Day. Look what occurred two or three days earlier than with large fantastic job numbers, making an attempt to get him elected or her elected, making an attempt to get whoever the hell was working—since you return and so they got here out with numbers that had been very favorable to Kamala, okay. Attempting to get him—making an attempt to get her elected. After which on the fifteenth of November or thereabouts, they’d it 8[00] or 900,000 overstatement discount proper after the election. It did not work as a result of you already know who gained, John? I gained.”
Trump’s convoluted declare is totally false. The “[800] or 900,000 overstatement discount” he’s yammering about was a preliminary downward revision (by 818,000) of job estimates that the BLS introduced on Aug. 21, 2024—months earlier than the election. The finalized revision, launched in February 2025, was 589,000 fewer jobs—not 900,000, and positively not a part of a plot to elect Kamala Harris.
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As a result of information will not be Trump’s buddy, he fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the woeful jobs report was launched. Going ahead, Trump will doubtless rant away and spew fabricated information to make himself really feel higher every time unhealthy financial information rears its head.
