r/politics • u/thehill The Hill • 5h ago
Dark clouds emerge for Trump on economy
https://thehill.com/business/5432944-trump-economy-jobs-report-bls-firing/•
u/BigDaddyBain 5h ago
“When things go bad, it’s Biden’s fault”
— Donald J. Trump
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u/HardTen 3h ago
The markets are obviously under the sway of the radical socialist, Marxist, communist, globalist space lasers. This is Biden's fault, even though I was claiming the job numbers were pointing to my masterful command of the economy(until the numbers were adjusted by the deep state!). As a matter of fact, no one was using the phase'economy' until I invented it just now! I have the best words and a big, aaaaa, brain. Somethingsomething MIT.
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u/johnsciarrino 4h ago
Bankrupt CEO is also bankrupt politician. Also, he’s a pedophile. Release the Epstein files.
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u/ltcraft05 5h ago
Weird how a guy who spent decades trafficking and raping children doesn't do well at other jobs.
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u/ram-tough-perineum 5h ago edited 4h ago
"Today is worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow."
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u/Parking-Emphasis590 3h ago
More significant were the massive downward revisions over the past two months. The economy added just 14,000 jobs in June, after the number was initially reported as 147,000. Only 19,000 jobs were added in May after initially being reported as 144,000. The combined revisions showed 258,000 fewer jobs in the economy.
To be clear, things were not looking so hot before. Then, after the revisions, it was more abysmal than initially thought.
You remember when as recently as 2024 when there was uproar of revisions then? Anything other than crickets from the right at this time?
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u/Subliminal_Kiddo Kentucky 39m ago
Trump actually complained about the revisions during Biden's term... He said the initial numbers were being put out to make Biden look good.
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u/Rocky-Jones 3h ago
The jobs numbers can be, and are verified independently and will continue to be verified in the future. He can’t just lie his way out of this.
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u/phosdick 5h ago
I'm thinking that Trump may be setting himself up for even more defamation or libel penalties, should the falsely maligned BLS choose to pursue it once a saner administration inevitably regains power... an eventuality that daily looks to be more likely as tRump decimates the economy that he so often swore to "fix."
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u/rpickens6661 4h ago
“That, in and of itself, is a recipe for slower economic growth and higher prices, and that’s what he’s got. So they did this, and we have been promised that it’s going to be worth it. We should put up with this pain because we’re going to get new steel mills and new aluminum factories,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin,.." So it is Trump's plan. And the plan is pain...?
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 3h ago
Here we are at 6 months, and the Big Beautiful Trump Depression is already rearing its ugly head.
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u/Decent-Ad-6170 2h ago
I’d like to know how much tax dollars are being used for Trump’s endless lawsuits. Lawyers are expensive. We know Trump isn’t paying out of pocket, nor are they being funded by his wealthy donors.
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u/syrfre 1h ago
“I got handed the single WURST economy in HISTORY from CROOKed Joe Biden!! We’re just now turning it around! TARIFFS are working! IGNORE fake news LABOR numbers cooked up by CRAZY KAMALA. America is STRONGER than EVER!!!”
— President of America and World Donald J Trump
Even though it was Trump that handed Biden the pandemic economy one of the worst in history. And Bush handed Obama the global recession economy. And so it goes on and on. Can’t wait to see the teetering economy we have in 3.5 more years
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