Wow. Trump announces he is firing the U.S. Labor Statistics Commissioner for reporting that jobs numbers are weak under

[riversedge]

Gee, she wrote a government report that Trump did not like--so fire her!!


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Wow. Trump announces he is firing the U.S. Labor Statistics Commissioner for reporting that jobs numbers are weak under his watch.

This is what dictators do.

@NoLieWithBTC
The Trump administration just revised their own jobs numbers down by 258,000 in the past two months.

Over a quarter million new jobs that were reported didn’t actually exist.

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[DBoon]

1. Trump just made it obvious that no economic statistics from the federal government can be trusted

I wonder how financial markets will react?

[newdeal2]

5. Not strongly enough

If his billionaire pals don’t say anything about it, that says it all.

[markodochartaigh]

7. I remember the economic meltdowns in

Asia and Latin America in the 90's, 00's, 10's. Over and over when a pundit would ask an expert what had happened the expert would point to corruption and to a lack of transparency as the main reasons for the meltdown.

Of course, "it can't happen here".

[unblock]

2. it figures that donnie's plan to strengthen the jobs market begins with firing someone.

[chicoescuela]

3. who didn't see this coming?

we will never know the truth from this point forward
what a candy ass mfer

[Rebl2]

14. We will see

it with our own eyes by the number of layoffs in our individual states (in my state if a business with a medium or large number of employees lays off or closes, it has to be reported to the state) , along with the closing of businesses and prices continuing to go up and friends and relatives losing their jobs.

[senseandsensibility]

4. So here we go. Soon we will see only the statistics they want us to see.

Dems need to be out front on this.

[Ocelot II]

6. When will he start arresting the first people who stop clapping for his speeches

a la Stalin?

[Norbert]

11. His hero, Kim Jong-Um, has been known to put them to death.

He aspires to be this kind of leader errr, ruler.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. The new commissioner of labor statistics.

[Blue Owl]

8. C'mon Grim Reaper, hurry the fuck up

[Takket]

9. if she were lying about the job numbers... why wouldn't she have lied the FIRST time, instead of on the "revision"?

he'll stick another boot licking toadie in there who will report "the biggest job growth numbers ever! like nothing we've ever seen!!!"

[Initech]

10. The day this fascist nightmare ends can't come soon enough.

[DSandra]

18. Apparently life has not been hard enough ever since the Great Recession...

Apparently we Americans just haven't had to endure enough continual suffering.

[Prairie Gates]

12. For Trump this is no different than firing a caddy who refused to write a 3 down on the par 5

When Trump shot 8.



We're in Enshittia now, people!

[Torchlight]

13. The Ministry of Truth's commissars strike again

Reality is potically inconvenient and thus, a terminable offense. With cause.

[Doodley]

15. Trump will have his ass sued with that reasoning for the firing that the commissioner lied.

[UTUSN]

16. Only Pravda Faux "news" is allowed!

[sorcrow]

17. At least he stopped short

At least he stopped short of killing the messenger.


Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Maddow Blog-Trump responds to his failure to create jobs by firing the U.S. labor statistics chief

Confronted with evidence of his own failures, the president could've changed direction. He instead found it easier to fire his labor statistics chief.

In true authoritarian fashion, Trump, confronted by evidence of his failures, fired the labor statistics chief for telling the truth.

It’s dangerously insane to set the credibility of government stats on fire to satisfy presidential whims.

This isn’t how Americans govern; it’s how despots rule.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-01T19:11:05.747Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-responds-failure-create-jobs-firing-us-labor-statistics-chief-rcna222532

Confronted with evidence of his own failure, Trump announced that he’s changing course and pursuing a more responsible economic direction.

No, I’m just kidding. He’s actually firing the commissioner of labor statistics. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a stunning government report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months. Taking to Truth Social, he attacked Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the BLS. He claimed that the country’s jobs reports ‘are being produced by Biden appointee’ and ordered his administration to terminate her.

......Trump, without a shred of evidence or shame, proceeded to claim that McEntarfer had secretly conspired against him during the 2024 campaign — a bizarre claim, given that the job totals in the months leading up to Election Day really weren’t great — before flubbing basic facts about Labor Department reports that anyone in an Economics 101 course would recognize as absurd.

It was at this point that Trump added, “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 irony was rich.

The president concluded, “The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP,’” overlooking the inconvenient fact that Americans are dealing with sluggish growth, stubborn inflation, an anemic job market and a slumping manufacturing sector.

For now, I’m not going to dwell on the fact that McEntarfer is a respected, highly qualified career civil servant who’s done nothing wrong and who deserves better than to be fired and smeared with conspiratorial garbage.....

Trump, in true authoritarian fashion, fired the labor statistics chief for doing her job and telling the truth — which the president didn’t want to hear. He’ll now seek out someone new who’ll deliver job statistics that make him happy, knowing full well that McEntarfer’s successor must understand that failure to satisfy Trump will lead to their ouster, too.....

This isn’t how Americans govern; it’s how despots rule.

[D_Master81]

21. This isn't just about this report

This is a warning shot to all employees that if you don’t report positive news for him you’re going to be out of work so make a choice. Expect the same if inflation numbers start increasing.

[W_HAMILTON]

23. Trump has already decimated the staff responsible for reporting accurate inflation numbers:

Staffing shortages have forced the U.S. federal government to scale back the price checks it uses to calculate the inflation rate. Economists are warning that could lead to less accurate cost-of-living reports.

Every month, hundreds of government employees check the price of goods and services in cities around the country and those numbers are crunched to produce the inflation measure known as the consumer price index, or CPI.

This week, the Labor Department said it had cut back on price checks nationwide and suspended them entirely in some cities because it didn't have enough people to do the work.

The agency suspended data gathering altogether in Lincoln, Neb., and Provo, Utah, in April and halted it in Buffalo, N.Y., this month.

Taken from: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5424367/inflation-data-cpi-government-job-shortages

[KelleyKramer]

22. So going forward, we now know all the numbers will be fake

[B.See]

24. POS fires jobs statistician because

HIS jobs numbers are shitty. Figures.

Now we know how he bankrupted four casinos (well, actually more than four... he filed four times).