{"id":68512,"date":"2025-12-19T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68512"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:16:26","slug":"trump-brags-lies-that-the-unemployment-rate-rose-because-he-fired-lots-of-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68512","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brags (Lies) That the Unemployment Rate Rose Because He Fired Lots of Federal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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”<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: ENOUGH! American Media Disgraced Itself Again By Airing Trump\u2019s Lie-Riddled Harangue-a-Thon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/strong> on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, as his explanation for the higher unemployment numbers…<\/p>\n

“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!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, Trump incorrectly says that “our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5%,”<\/em> 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.”<\/em> 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…<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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."<\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2025-12-19T19:24:51.296Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n