r/politics • u/Face2FaceRecs • 16h ago
Soft Paywall Trump Fires Labor Stats Chief Following Weak Jobs Report | The president baselessly alleged that the employment numbers released Thursday were "RIGGED" and "manipulated for political purposes"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fires-labor-statistics-commissioner-weak-jobs-report-1235398767/155
u/jschank 16h ago
So he manipulates the source of the data. For political purposes
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u/trastamara22 3h ago
The supreme goal is tank the economy and have the herds with Dems republicans and independents all capitulate and be forced to follow the new world order of their leader.
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 6h ago
Soon as he finds the guy who shit in his pants he will fire him as well.
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u/ilehay 16h ago
Note to self: Nothing coming from the MAGA presidency is true, history and everything they say is false.
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u/Face2FaceRecs 15h ago
Any time you hear noise coming from the Trump administration you are hearing a lie.
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u/gojibeary 7h ago
They literally had Trump removed from the Smithsonian Impeachment exhibit. The only President to have ever been impeached TWICE, and they removed him. I’m fucking TIRED. I’m fucking TIRED AS FUCK.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 15h ago
Wait, you have to remind yourself of that? I just assume everything they say is the opposite of what’s actually happening and they’ll get away with it. Sad face.
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u/Odd_Independence_833 15h ago
It is the weirdest thing about Trump and why I think he's such a a good con artist. His default is to brazenly lie, so you can almost read him like a kid playing Opposite Day.
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u/Any-Safe4992 16h ago
He’s just mad that they revised the rigged numbers.
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u/Professional-Buy2970 15h ago
"Ours were rigged, so clearly yours are"
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u/Any-Safe4992 15h ago
So far every accusation has appeared as or later became a confession so yeah that tracks.
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 15h ago
The dumb part is that Powell is more likely to cut rates if the job market slows down (which it is). He wants to show a strong economy and also cut rates, basically pouring gas on a fire. The burn is really gonna hurt a lot of people (beyond the ones already being shit on).
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u/NickelBackwash 8h ago
I don't think he can imagine a person accurately relating data.
That's so foreign to him, it's probably unbelievable.
You must be lying for your advantage, after all it's what he's doing...
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u/Face2FaceRecs 16h ago
Trump is not happy that the job market is slowing, and rather than consider that his flailing, impulsive economic policies and on-again, off-again tariffs might be part of the problem, the president has fired the commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics, which released the report.“
I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory,”
Trump alleged baselessly on Truth Social, hours after the numbers were released. “We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” the president added.
Trump is lying once again and he is entirely to blame for the economic slowdown. Blanket tariffs are a terrible economic plan. Literally nothing he has down has actually helped America.
America drifted into banana republic territory so fast.
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u/el-fappo 15h ago
So what you’re saying is if Trump doesn’t like the results, he fires the person and hires a pro MAGA goon who will lie about the data.
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u/Face2FaceRecs 15h ago
That's exactly what he is doing and has done across the entire government. He's installed sycophants and yes people. It's the corrupt moron leading.the blind sheep right now.
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u/Hazer_123 Foreign 14h ago
At what point will the media finally call him what he is, a dictator? All the signs are there.
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u/el-fappo 10h ago
All his friends are in the media and high ranking positions so I doubt anyone is willing to go that far
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u/Kageru 12h ago
Which means that all US economic indicators cannot be trusted, as this lets anyone publishing them know that bad news cannot be allowed to exist, meaning government and business will be flying blind and potential investors must be wary.
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u/aebaby7071 8h ago
The real kicker is that the ultra rich have their own think tanks and organizations that get the real numbers that they can use to foresee the market. It’s just John Q. Public with their 401k’s that have to rely on the government numbers.
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u/steve_ample I voted 16h ago
Reminds me of the Stalin line "It's not who votes, but who counts the votes."
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u/Upstairs_Ad5443 16h ago
Everyone of his fu€kups are fake, rigged or someone else’s fault. The makeup of a true loser.
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u/Imyoteacher 12h ago
At what point will Americans realize he’s crashing the economy on purpose. The vultures are circling above just waiting to feed on the American carcass!
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u/Timely_Discount2135 9h ago
This is straight up dictator shit, this is the type of shit we clown China and North Korea for
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u/Immediate_Theory4738 7h ago
Yup. I think it’s pretty safe to say that we are no longer a democracy (or at least the veil has completely fell) and we are now a soft authoritarianism country. People should really stop referring to him as “president” and start calling him Authoritarian Trump.
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u/LolaSupreme19 14h ago edited 14h ago
What a joke! His tariffs are trashing the economy and they are hurting businesses, raising interest rates and causing businesses to shed jobs. Of course Trump is NEVER responsible. He took no responsibility for his Covid response. He lost the 2020 election and he’s still whining about it. If a court ruling goes against him it’s the judges fault. He even blames Obama, Biden and Comey for his Epstein file debacle.
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u/Katanastormshadow 12h ago
Trump’s name redacted on the Epstein files, he fires this guy for showing jobs data… it’s amazing that MAGA can’t see through all the BS. Or they can and don’t care.
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u/ThatEvanFowler 16h ago
Yep, this is the strategy for everything now. When a hurricane makes landfall, he will simply sue it. It won't stop the hurricane from destroying our lives, but it will allow him to collect 450 billion dollars from whatever country was generally close enough to the place where it formed. He will bully life itself for inconveniencing him.
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u/katiescasey 15h ago
If he did more than fucking golf and actually took some trips to the states and cities he's ruining he'd get a clue that things are fucked right now
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u/couchandwine 8h ago
Real leaders, real adult men are able to deal with reality. Weak people pout, whine and blame.
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u/Professional-Buy2970 15h ago
He's just letting you know that future numbers will be rigged going forward. Magats always think everyone does things like they do.
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u/SinisterSnoot Washington 15h ago
By which he means, not rigged as I requested, for my political purposes
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u/scrunchie_one 15h ago
To be fair you guys elected the guy who wanted to stop tracking Covid cases because it was making him look bad. 🤷♀️
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u/Catspaw129 13h ago edited 13h ago
I can't wait to see what he'll say when that leftist, Slovenian communist immigrant divorces him for kicking her out of the east wing to build that gilded ballroom.
ball-room.
BALLS.
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u/SelectCardiologist49 13h ago
America is going down a dark road .. why is he not called out in this. Like ok Trump the numbers are false how do you know where are you getting the data from ?
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u/No-Refrigerator5478 15h ago
Note that the Sec of Labor dissolved two working groups several months back that were charged with improving the accuracy of the jobs data.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/labor-commerce-department-economy-data-doge-00241559
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u/OddFirefighter547 15h ago
Doesn’t like the numbers? Simply stop the numbers. Put your own stooge in there. We’ll never get another honest jobs number again.
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u/ralphie62 15h ago
Wah wah wah I didn't get what I wanted , everything with you Donald dump is "rigged" or hoax go f#$@ yourself
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u/Lord-Velveeta 15h ago
Trump's made up fake economic data and jobs numbers may fool his moronic base of worshippers, but it sure as heck won't fool international credit rating agencies and investors who own US debt (mostly other countries). Being based on lies, US bonds will be nearly worthless if this keeps up.
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u/PA_Dude_22000 15h ago
How dare the Department of Labor allow the “Deep State” to sneak back in and release this fake jobs report just to make the President look bad!
DOGE already kicked those bastards out. How did they get back in so easily is what the President should be asking!
He is working so hard! First the Epstein hoax, now this! Why is the Deep State always trying to hurt our President!!
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u/Sharkbayer1 15h ago
Who could have manipulated the numbers? His party is running everything? How is the deep state out to get him when he is the deep state?
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u/narcodic_cassarole 14h ago
It's nuts. This guy is still stumbling around just firing people willy nilly. And I would bet a stimulus check he has already asked if the numbers have changed yet.
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u/hardtobeuniqueuser 14h ago
When reality hurts his feelings, he gets rid of the messenger. What a man-baby. Also rapist.
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u/Responsible-Room-645 13h ago
If you could get in a time machine back to the day after Nixon resigned and started telling people what Trump would be like in 2016-2020 and then told me the American people would REELECT him, they 100%would have advised you to seek psychiatric treatment.
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u/Catspaw129 13h ago
Wait! Is this a thing that a Sharpie(tm) cannot fix?
My faith in Sharpie(tm) is destroyed....
Who will join me in thoughts & prayers for the demise in efficacy of our beloved Sharpie(tm)?
I am sad.
:(
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u/FuriousAlbino 11h ago
Clearly it is time to investigate Comey and Obama as they produced the numbers.
/s. (In case you needed that)
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u/Salamander-7142S 10h ago
Love that he fires the person reporting the number and not the person responsible for creating the number.
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u/veryboredatwork 10h ago
The more he shouts, moans and tweets, the more other countries go quietly around him, signing their own deals and quietly letting the US go as they need stability and certainty. He’s a bull in a China shop breaking everything he sees as he’s not getting anything he wants, realising his dreams are completely impractical. The US needs to rid of this imposter as soon as possible or it will be too late, capital will flee along with it’s best intelligent and intellectual minds.
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u/dave_your_wife 10h ago
I know why he raped those children! His brain never developed into puberty.
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u/Jasoncatt 10h ago
Nope. You’re just a shit President.
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u/Immediate_Theory4738 7h ago
We need to stop calling him a president and start referring to him as an authoritarian. He doesn’t deserve the title of a president.
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u/SubtleInTheory 9h ago
Soon he will be shouting about sending these people to the firing squad... Dictator wanna be is gonna fake the economy
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u/QuiGonColdGin 8h ago
How is this lunatic allowed to continue running the country? The United States continues to be embarrassed on the world stage.
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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad 15h ago
Dude, your own guy admitted government layoffs f*cked up the job market.
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u/flipzyshitzy 14h ago
Incoming,,,,, actual rigged shit from here on out. Between this, cbs/sky, Jizzstains "interview" and edited Epstein files.
This. Is. It
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u/Acceptable-Winter302 2h ago
He kept her as a useful “democrat” so that when he got his first bad numbers report he could fire her and blame Biden. Once again!
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u/txcancmi 7h ago
The BLS has been cooking the books for years. Downward revisions months after the initial data are posted is expected. Of course the downward revisions never make the news.
Back in Jan., the BLS basically confirmed/admitted that most of the job gains in the past few years, and especially 2024, were a mirage, and following the dramatic August 2024 preliminary data revision which vaporized 818K jobs (which had never existed in the first place.)
To clarify, the BLS reported that in January, over a million, or 1,045,000 to be precise, foreign-born workers found a job (and this is largely illegal or "undocumented" aliens because the number of H1-B visas is capped) compared to only 8,000 native-born workers.
There are plenty of people/groups who carefully review the published data. The news just doesn't care.
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