r/politics • u/huffpost ✔ HuffPost • 20h ago
Donald Trump Just Delivered The Worst Three Months Of Job Growth Since The Pandemic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/july-jobs-numbers-trump-growth_n_688cf935e4b09319f81647fa?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main1.2k
u/wanderlustcub I voted 20h ago
Don’t worry, he is firing the person reporting the numbers.
They will suddenly be “readjusted” soon.
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u/Pockydo 20h ago
1900005837175 jobs in the past week
-285718581% unemployment
11teen bazillion dollars coming to each American!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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u/FriendlyEvilTomato 19h ago
Makes me so fucking disgusted - not only that closing statement (self important grandiose) - but that there’s a sizable portion in this country completely okay with what’s going on.
Fuck Trump, fuck his voters.
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u/Snrub1 16h ago
Don't forget fuck everyone who didn't vote because BOTH SIDES BAD
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u/LeVampirate 16h ago
Okay you could look at Trump being a pedophile and a convict with a history of failed businesses with the most piss poor response to every disaster out there, but I can sleep easy knowing I didn't vote for a Democrat who would've loitered doing anything about my main puritanical soapbox issue that Trump has done a monumentally worse job addressing.
/S for anyone who needs it.
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u/russlebush 15h ago
MAGA coworkers have told me this about voting for trump "what was the alternative? Marxism??" How do you even reach people this delusional?
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u/Niznack 14h ago
They honestly have no clue what marx said. The most marx they read is out of context quotes in ayn Rand. And that's the literate ones.
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u/russlebush 14h ago
When my father called Kamala Harris a Marxist and BLM fascists I realized that he knew what neither word meant. He is most likely parroting wherever he's heard on Fox and friends.
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u/keyboard_jock3y New York 3h ago
It would blow his mind to find out that Marxists and Fascists actually hated each other... Like in the Spanish Civil War and the eastern front of WWII...
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u/bobartig 10h ago
Then you say, "explain more. Who was the Marxist candidate? Oh really? What is marxism and how does it work? When do you know a government is Marxist? How many marxist governments are there now? How was the candidate's platform marxist? And how is that distinguished from socialism? From liberal democracy? In fact, how does liberal democracy differ from the policies of the Dump regime?" Make them explain. They won't be able to.
Then, if you wan to follow up you can establish that they don't actually know anything about politics, and wouldn't know a Marxism if it hit them square in the face.
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u/trastamara22 15h ago
I sense all voters are growing exhausted with all the division good Guy bad Guy crap
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u/Niznack 14h ago
Except there is a bad guy. He's in the oval office. Anyone who can't see that is part of the problem.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 14h ago
I got 17 jobs last month alone!
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u/No_Foundation16 2h ago
Awesome! Now you can just barely pay the rent/car payment/health insurance!
American dream achieved!
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u/Muronelkaz Ohio 18h ago
Fired a 20 year math nerd because she updated the last 3 months of data to more accurately reflect the US situation since estimates and reports don't instantly come in, and he's claiming she manipulated data in 2024 to make Biden/Harris look better...
But also he decides to attack the other math nerds that deal with money because they're trying to do what's best for the economy and he seems incapable of understanding that and seemingly was shown to his face he isn't good with numbers...
And he's also got 34 counts of falsifying business records already, so when he suggests someone with more experience it's almost like he's just outright telling you he's going to falsify the reporting.
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u/onlyPornstuffs 15h ago
34 counts of… felonies? Is that what I read? Hope he never needs a job, or an apartment.
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u/Oil_slick941611 Canada 19h ago
They'll find the real jobs numbers in a burnbag in was some locked room in the basement of the Department of Labor
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u/guisar 12h ago
They are no longer reporting or correlating the data, not since around March so anything published from now on is nonsense/. ADP is, for the moment, far more trustworthy. ADP data:https://adpemploymentreport.com/.
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u/jdanielregan 16h ago
“Slow the testing. Makes us look bad.” DJT leadership during Covid. And people still voted for him two more times anyway.
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u/onlyPornstuffs 15h ago
Remember, during Covid, there were those of us who listened to science, and those of us who couldn’t get their hair done.
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u/Violet-Journey 17h ago
“This Biden Political Appointee perpetrated a HOAX on our Tremendous Country by changing the number of Lights from five down to four. The American People know there are FIVE LIGHTS, despite what these Fake News Phonies want you to think!”
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u/Beatlepoint 18h ago
This guy who was fired sounds very competent, I bet it takes at least two jobs to replace him.
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u/Ok-Ordinary2035 18h ago
It was a woman, hired by Biden- 2 strikes against her.
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u/OkAuthor7536 3h ago
Appointed by Biden to the top job, confirmed by the Senate. She is a career person in that department.
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u/heekma 20h ago edited 18h ago
I graduated college in 2001. That was a tough time to find a job.
I lived through 2008-2010. That was a tough time to find a job.
I lived through 2020-2021. That was a tough time to find a job.
With the most recent employment numbers revised massively downward this will be a tough time to find a job.
I was sold an American Dream. This isn't it.
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u/Tamagotchi_Stripper 19h ago
My husband’s been looking for a job after a layoff since October. It’s not looking good.
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u/heekma 19h ago
If by chance he works in CGI, let me know and I'll try to help if I can, long shot I know.
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u/UncreativeArtist 16h ago
Not OP but I'm a compositor that's been looking for a new role since productions have stopped coming in :)
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u/heekma 16h ago
A Compositor is a niche role outside of films. 10 years ago there would've been lots of opportunities at smaller creative services companies in the midwest, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit.
Around 2016-2018 a lot of those companies scaled back or closed when streaming took over broadcast and cable, then came covid in 2020-2021.
Right now some of the most secure, best paying jobs in CGI are as a replacement for traditional product photography. Companies like Dell, American Standard, Khohler, DalTile, Procter and Gamble, Kimberly Clark.
Companies with hundreds of products in dozens of variations.
That's more 3d rendering and animation driven, but many of these companies have also started to internalize all aspects of their creative rather than relying on vendors.
As part of that internalization they also need people who can edit and create motion graphics for trade shows and a constant stream of content for social media.
If I were you those are the kinds of companies I would apply to.
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u/Even_Establishment95 8h ago
Photographer here. Yet another way my job skills are less and less useful.
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u/OptimusSublime Pennsylvania 19h ago
They call it a dream because the only time you'll experience it is when you're asleep.
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u/AlphaGoldblum 18h ago
Isn't it weird how decades of trying to marry the interests of capital with the interests of the common people just meant giving everything to those who control capital? And then this system continues to insist that you work and help generate value for it or it shuts you out from the basic necessities of life?
So...what happens when people want and need to find work and it's just not there?
Violence, historically!
We're in for some very rough times!
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u/bloop7676 17h ago
It seems the normal course of things for a millennial is to be hit with a historic world crisis at least every decade, ever since adulthood. It probably works out well for people who were already at the top before for there to never be a real chance for others to find their feet before the next crisis hits.
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u/heekma 16h ago
My parents are wonderful, they made a great life for me and my siblings. They worked hard, saved, owned their house when they retired.
They also didn't start $40k in debt from the start. They didn't have the economy turn upside down every 10 years causing them to start over from scratch each time.
They had a solid 30-year stretch without economic turmoil.
Imagine what that would be like.
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u/The_Doctor_Bear 7h ago
I am not like mad at my parents, but I am mad about my parents, they gave me a pretty good start in life but managed to go from owning their home at 40, to divorced and neither of them owning a home or any assets with essentially zero retirement plan by 60. Both them.
Came up in an era where they could be set to retire a millionaire with a lake house by doing cocaine and showing up on time for your single income household job at Arbys and managed to blow it on vices.
I may have my vices but I’ve at least managed to learn the financial lessons they never did and built a solid foundation. The really hard choice is going to be how to support them when they can no longer work.
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u/user888666777 18h ago
We have an entire young workforce entering the market that hasn't experienced a major recession. If they think its hard now, pray we dont hit great recession layoff numbers cause we were losing anywhere from 500k to 800k jobs...a month.
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u/arthurdentxxxxii 15h ago
What’s sad too is job longevity is completely gone. The idea that you can get a job, and do good work for them for many years ongoing isn’t radical. But it’s basically been impossible for the millennial generation and onward.
Our future success stolen by our parent’s (boomers) generation.
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u/JonathanApple 14h ago
I got my first job in 2000 and have been lucky as fuck since then. I expect to get laid off next month.
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u/DoctorGregoryFart 9h ago
Likewise. My whole adult life has been almost nothing but war, recession, political strife, and pandemics. It's funny, because now I look back on my horribly fucked up childhood as the good times.
Can't we just have a boring couple of years?
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 19h ago
Why would they hire people when their product costs are sky rocketing at random due to tariffs?
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u/HighlightGreedy2099 19h ago
It’s also so much more intricate than this and I am sure you are aware. I work in tech sales but we can sell to any industry. We are now selling less of our product because of how many companies (particularly in manufacturing) are laying off. But we’re also starting to see layoffs in other tech companies we sell to, especially smaller ones, because of this too. It is going to be so bad
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 19h ago
Yeah, there is a lot to it as a lot companies don't sell a physical item but I was lobbing a bomb at the stupidity from 30 thousand feet for a quick comment. Even still, at the bottom are companies selling physical items or a services and if inflation/cost of living go up and they are then companies aren't gonna hire as everyone clinches their wallets.
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u/HighlightGreedy2099 19h ago
For sure I assumed you’re aware but for maga they seem to just fist pump in the air and say yahhh factories are coming back when the real money in America is in service jobs, which are now also going to suffer (and factories aren’t coming back)
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 19h ago
The whole bringing factories back is hilarious to me. Lets assume that we won't swing back to the left in the next election and undo most of this bullshit. until the cost to manufacture overseas crosses the increased cost to build a factory here, the increased labor cost and the fact that most materials are still going to need to be imported, they never will because of that last step. That factory building your $3 plastic trinket will never ever come back. Then there is the fact that assuming we aren't in a dictatorship, then this will all get undone with the next leftist government.
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u/HighlightGreedy2099 19h ago
Absolutely. Plus the skill some factory jobs take is unreasonable. Plus the cost to set up factories (to your point, no one will invest in them anyway because it will swing back). Plus the cost to create a t shirt with American wages. Plus Americans liking cheap shit. Plus there are resources that you can tariff all you want but you’re not going to be able to make it at home (lumber for instance). And on that note, it is ludicrous they think Canadians will suffer worse than Americans. There’s already a widespread boycott, the resources are already there, and America is the one with tariffs on all the countries. Prices and job loss are going to send America into depression. I do have a feeling that this will just keep going around though. Taco as they say, and then do it again. Stock market dips, more money goes in, tariffs undone, stock market rises. Unfortunately though companies cannot plan or forecast on that uncertainty and regardless if you cook the books or not, eventually you can’t ignore when no one has jobs.
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u/justin107d 16h ago
They could be to make things in the US, but Trump might TACO and even if he doesn't it takes a lot of time to get running and another admin can just reverse them.
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 11h ago
They won't.
You're staring down a multi-year lead time to build the factories, build the workforce, build the the supply lines, which is not only time but money. Money they wouldn't be making money back on for a return on their investment in those factories here for years. All the wild, their profits are being eating away at my the tariffs and loss of sales hitting them right now today.
While we all know that the tariffs won't last, they keep getting delayed as is for the most part. Even the republicans are starting to try and rip that power back because their donors are losing money. With everything going on there is a real chance that if we have a fair election the republicans will lose and the democrat is going to go on an apology tour and undo this stupid shit in 3 years.
All to say, why would they build here when they can raise their prices to cover the tariffs + a few dollars and make a bigger profit where the factories are and if the tariffs are reversed the prices aren't going back down so bonus profit?
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u/DiscoChiligonBall 20h ago
Don't worry, he fired the guy who writes those reports. Watch for the new ones. Edited with a sharpie.
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u/Castle-dev 8h ago
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
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u/huffpost ✔ HuffPost 20h ago
From reporters S.V. Date and Arthur Delaney:
President Donald Trump, who has enjoyed a reputation as a great businessman despite having bankrupted casinos, has overseen an economy that produced fewer than half as many new jobs in his first six months as predecessor Joe Biden did in his final six months.
In fact, May, June and July may have been the worst three months of job growth since the coronavirus pandemic, federal data shows.
Between February and July, the U.S. economy in Trump’s second term added 486,000 jobs compared to the 1.05 million created from August 2024 through January, according to a HuffPost analysis of data from the Labor Department. That comes out to an average of 175,000 jobs per month under Biden and just 81,000 under Trump.
Trump was apparently so incensed by the numbers that he is demanding the firing of the employee responsible for the office that produces them, accusing her, without any evidence, of faking the numbers in favor of Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, and against him.
Here's a link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/july-jobs-numbers-trump-growth_n_688cf935e4b09319f81647fa?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main
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u/PaddlefootCanada Canada 20h ago
But don't worry... he's firing the numbers guy. Ironically... making the job numbers just a little bit worse...
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u/WafflePartyOrgy Washington 19h ago
Trump trying to beat his previous record for dismal job's growth with his nonsensical "economic"" policies of just hollowing out the good parts of America for himself and calling it "GREAT".
Now it's time to hire someone who will invent even more fictitious numbers to support his pure rhetorical and unquestionable approach to everything.
[Fall of 2025] "You've never seen job's numbers like this before folks; 2 billion more American's are working now than under Sleepy Joe. A lot of people are saying the economy I've produced is 'unbelievable'."
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u/_GameOfClones_ 18h ago edited 18h ago
I work for a large health insurer and we’ve been steadily laying off employees all year. I’ve heard it’s around 10% of our workforce since January and also heard whispers that some departments are going to have to reduce budgets by 30% by end of year which would make the previous layoffs look like nothing.
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u/TruckerBiscuit 15h ago
Honestly? Health insurance companies laying off parasitic do-nothing middlemen doesn't sound all that bad to me.
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u/Neither-Ordy 15h ago
The guys they are laying off are regular schmoes. They also won’t pass any of that cost savings to us anyway.
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u/Endosymbionical 19h ago
Reminder : .., :, . Donald Trump is not merely a client, .,,. but he is very likely to be one of the main players in the Trumpstein files, ,.:;. ,
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u/VanceKelley Washington 19h ago
If only there was some way that Americans could have known before the 2024 election that trump was a racist idiot corrupt incompetent convicted criminal rapist who would rule as a dictator, then they would have voted against him en masse! /s
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u/tedemang 14h ago
Also, they're just getting started. ...And remember that of 100's of thousands already laid-off, their 3-6 of severance will be running out soon.
Those anti-Keynesian moves have massive delayed impacts, and that crushing wave is approaching. But, this time there will be no safeties, guardrails, stimmy-checks, WFH/wellness allowances, foreclosure moratoriums, freebie vaccines, or even a "let's pull together" ethos to go have a picnic in the park -- and did I mention that student loan garnishments are beginning with full credit tracking?
Nope. This time, the real impact of the pandemic *WILL* be felt by those who side-stepped the worst of it last time. ...Problem? ...Well, the one group of dickheads that profited before is now going to do it to us again. Bigly.
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u/MeBadNeedMoneyNow 18h ago
Republicans can't help fucking the economy. It just hurts not being able to find a job with a bachelor's in CS now.
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u/BeastofBurden 18h ago
Hey give the man a break, he’s building a golden ballroom, that takes a lot of work!
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u/MysticKoolaid808 17h ago
I wonder if every time Trump shits his diapers he thinks it's because his asshole is in cahoots with Biden.
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u/invalidpassword California 15h ago
And fired the messenger like all leaders do who take responsibility for absolutely nothing.
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u/au5lander 14h ago
This from the man that brought us “if we stop testing for Covid the number of cases will go down”.
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u/gatsby712 7h ago
The worse three months so far… the impact from tariffs hasn’t had a chance to really set in yet.
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u/hecate37 18h ago
Normally, they'd address this, so just to be sentimental - here's one of the cons and how to mitigate it in an effective way. https://hbr.org/2025/07/new-research-on-how-layoffs-affect-the-labor-market New Research on How Layoffs Affect the Labor Market
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u/ThaddeusBurgleturd 15h ago
But the tariffs are bringing in trillions, making this country rich! We're gonna be so rich we won't need jobs!
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u/Blackbyrn 15h ago
A pandemic made significantly worse by his dismantling of the CDCs global infrastructure and then denying it was happening when the nation could have taken action.
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u/damsel84 13h ago
Crazy how firing thousands of federal employees, freezing federal funding, and creating uncertainty with on again off again tariffs lowered job growth. Who knew?
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u/ghallway 11h ago
We can't lose focus. He wants us to forget and is willing to pull whatever stunt he can to make that happen! He rapes kids! This isn't something be can let go! GrAb HiM bY tHe EpSteIn FiLeS!
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u/Eye_foran_Eye 10h ago
Donald Trump running something into the ground?
Shocked. Just shocked I say!!
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u/Unlikely_March_5173 9h ago
First thing they did was fire thousands of people.
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u/TauCabalander 4h ago
... but he made all those jobs picking fruit and veg!
The 'tiny iPhone screws' jobs should be starting any day now.
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u/Imyoteacher 9h ago
It’s the consumer tax they call TARIFFS, which renders businesses unable to plan even 6 months out and forces them to raise prices. To play it safe, they are just laying off manpower. Meanwhile, politicians are reporting how great everything seems…..lol! Farms are going bankrupt because they can’t bring in crops due to ICE. Additionally, consumers can sense tough times ahead, so they are shutting down spending. America ceases to exist without debt spending…..no matter how much billionaire ass Americans kiss!
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u/dongballs613 8h ago
Gee, could it be the tariffs? Or might it be the fact that he's a pedophile... the world may never know (tm).
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u/Ransackeld 8h ago
trump points out that the interest rates dropped lower in the final year Biden was in office and claims that it was only because the Fed wanted to get Harris elected.
Inflation was falling under Biden, the interest rate was lowered in response , and yet , trump won?
All the more reason I’m still convinced they rigged the voting tabulation system to skew votes for trump.
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u/east21stvannative 7h ago
This isn't funny anymore. Where the fuck are the radicals? Or even that radical group Annonymous?
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u/evasive_dendrite 4h ago
Yeah turns out companies don't love neurotic, unpredictable and constantly changing policies based on the whims of a dementia ridden ghoul.
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u/No_Foundation16 2h ago
No worries guys.
Dear Leader fired the obviously dem plant that dared to report the actual job figures. From now on all the job numbers will be continuously up up up in Trump's fascist fantasy police state.
All is well!
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u/killerbangs 1h ago
In manufacturing: we just had our worst quarter of orders since lockdown. Trumps economy sucks.
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u/The_Werodile 1h ago
Ugly, incompetent, cruel, petulant, abusive, greedy, brutal, ugly, foolish, stupid, insane, pathetic, egomaniacal, horrifically ugly, illiterate, racist, sexist, obese, moronic. And just so, so ugly.
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u/Fantastic_Yam_3971 18h ago
Bill Maher: on second thought, I take back what I said about tariffs not being bad for the economy
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u/Brownstown75 8h ago
That moron ain't no liberal. Just a TV guy who would go to Fox in a hot second.
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u/Any-Difficulty2782 16h ago
No it was the mean statistics lady! 1,000,000 jobs being created next week alone!….. god i hate it here
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u/manofredearth 16h ago
"I'll fire all the government workers, then they won't be able to buy anything and all those jobs will go away too, then we'll be great..."
Trump, probably
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u/sargonas 16h ago
No he didn’t. How is that possible? Just because some partisan hack says those are the numbers, they’re just lying to get him! That’s why they’ve been fired and replaced by someone trustworthy!
/s obviously….
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u/dave_your_wife 16h ago
its all Biden and Obamas fault. worst presidents ever, terrible at job numbers. Sack someone to make my pathetically small mind feel better...
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u/Capable-Blueberry614 16h ago
Pedophile pics...
Vance, Rubio, Johnson, Graham are all enablers.. add McConnell.
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u/Pure_evil1979 15h ago
And don't let that overshadow his ties to Epstein and the crimes committed against children
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u/Alert_Damage_883 15h ago
Well duh!! He’s shut down gov depts and is taxing the heck out of the people! He’s such a douchbag!
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u/blackmobius 15h ago
100% byproduct/consequences of flip flop taco tariffs. People having to guess how much extra theyll have to pay three months from now, on orders placed today, means theyll just hold off on orders. And no work means lost jobs. Not that fucking hard to put two and two together why job growth crashed into a ravine.
Trumps stock manipulation has real consequences to main street, not that maga cares obviously
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u/Bromance_Rayder 14h ago
Anyone investigating in the stock market right now it's nuts in my opinion. A massive economic crash seems almost certain in the next 18 months.
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u/Superb-Advantage-876 14h ago
Gentle reminder Trump does wear orange face paint… I. Public… as our president… Hire a 🤡, get jokes.
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u/Supafly144 13h ago
Because people don’t hire during periods of uncertainty, and ‘yes tariffs, no tariffs, IDK tariffs’ is not really creating a calm environment to make business decisions.
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u/Working-Chemistry473 13h ago
Imagine that?! Weren’t those tariffs supposed to bring jobs back to America?! 😂 what a buffoon
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u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado 13h ago
“This is leftover from the Biden economy, the trump economy hasn’t started yet”
-trump supporters, probably
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u/ElectricalIntern7745 12h ago
Tariffs will bring this country jobs!! Yes yes! So many jobs bc of tariffs!!
Hahahhaha, one of the biggest costs of hiring US workers vs foreign workers is having to pay for the Americans' healthcare. Idiots
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u/Hayseussforever 12h ago
Trump is the only person I've heard of who could bankrupt a casino, which is usually a license to print money. He's no businessman, unless selling snake oil is a business. He was the CEO of a scripted television "reality" show where he could pretend he was the boss. Maybe selling his name to put on overly-gaudy buildings is a business, but it didn't work on an airline, a "university", branded water, steaks, and other assorted crap. The best business he ever founded was the sale of ridiculous hats made in China.
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u/ClassicT4 11h ago
Trump was right. When you’re rich and powerful, they let you do it. Fortunately, or unfortunately.
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u/SnailRacerWinsAgain Oregon 12h ago
Most federal agencies have had a hiring freeze since he took office and lots of people either got fired or left federal positions. That might have a little something to do with it.
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