The November jobs report revealed that unemployment increased to a four year high of 4.6% eleven months after Trump’s reoccupation of the White House. Although Trump routinely tries to blame everything bad on the “fake news” and/or President Biden’s impressively enduring impact on the government that he left nearly a year ago, he has been unable to make any of that stick.
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Undeterred by his prior failures to shift blame, Trump is trying again to evade responsibility for the harm his neglect, ignorance, incompetence, and deliberate malfeasance has imposed on the nation and its people. Unfortunately he has the assistance of the media that he pretends to despise, but which is actually his partner in spreading his perverse distortions of reality.
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While Trump can lie about pretty much anything, the troubled state of the economy is a harder con to sell, because people know what everything they are buying actually costs. Trump can’t just tell them that they are paying less when they know that isn’t true. Well, he can and does tell them that, but they know that he’s lying.
The same thing is true with regard to the just released job numbers for November. The new report showing a 4.6% unemployment rate reflects the reality that the American people face everyday. But in Trump’s world it is a fluid figure that he can falsify because it doesn’t affect him or anyone he knows or cares about. Consequently, he posted the following comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, as his explanation for the higher unemployment numbers…
“The only reason our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5% is because we are reducing the Government Workforce by numbers that have never been seen before. 100% OF OUR NEW JOBS ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary. I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly. What I am doing is the only way to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
First of all, Trump incorrectly says that “our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5%,” when it actually ticked up to 4.6%. But that was the least important error in his comment. Trump’s statement that unemployment worsened because of a reduced government workforce has no factual basis. Nor does his claim that he “could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government.” And he doesn’t bother to provide any support for those claims. Although he did repeat the same lies to the press a few hours later…
“The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5%, which it went up to 4.5%, which is quite a low number, but still, it is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before.”
Trump: "The only reason our unemployment tucked up and went up to 4.5 percent [it's actually 4.6 percent] is because we are reducing the government workforce by numbers that have never been seen before."
“I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary. Which is what we had before. Millions and millions of people having jobs that they never even showed up. So I wish the media would report that the 4.5% is an amazing number.”
Trump: "I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary"
It’s rather bizarre that Trump is bragging about having raised the unemployment rate by putting hundreds of thousands of productive Americans out of work. These are people who performed critical services for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration, and more. So not only is Trump hurting those fired workers, he’s hurting every American who relied on those services.
As for Trump’s preposterous claim that rehiring fired federal employees “could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero,” that is another example of his mathematical illiteracy. The number of federal workers that were fired during Trump’s term since January is estimated to be around 317,000, according to his own Office of Personnel Management. While that is a significant amount of people and families that Trump has hurt, adding those people back into the workforce would only reduce the unemployment rate from 4.6% to about 4.4%. Which is a long way from “2%, 1%, or practically zero.”
This is par for the course for Trump. It mirrors his claim that he will cut drug prices by as much as 1,200%, when any cut greater than 100% would mean that the drugs would be free, or even result in the drug company paying the customer to buy the drugs. That doesn’t compute. Nor does Trump’s unemployment stats. Nor does his claims about tariffs revenue. That only thing that we can depend on with regard to Trump is that he will lie shamelessly about everything. And so will his sycophantic minions in Congress and the MAGA media.
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