Do you agree with Trump on firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, for accurate reporting?

[Anonymous]

Broadly displaying enormous insecurities, no?

A number of republicans are speaking out in disagreement. But they also voted for a death bill that they publicly disagreed with.

Yes

No

[Effably]

Only weak and bad leaders shoot the messenger. If she was at all at fault the obvious is to open an investigation and hold her accountable and then remove her from office.

There is no indication whatsoever that any of the reporting was faulty. This is just another weekly incident of having to lie and cheat to try and cover up his own incompetence. At this point I have gone from confused to outright impressed with his followers ability to ignore the signs. There are so many. Weekly. Seriously. You could not find a week where this man has not committed a major fuckup. I challenge you, a single week.

[ProbablyClueless]

I don't even know how the numbers would be rigged. Just from a practical standpoint. My understanding of how those numbers are collected would make that extremely difficult.

I'll have to research the question more, but at this point, I have to disagree with Trump.

[Syntosi]

I mean, Trump suggested that stopping reporting on Covid19 cases would "solve" the pandemic so we already know that he is more interested in addressing the "optics" of a situation rather than resolving the problem itself.

What Trump is probably most upset about however is the revisions on the previous months which made him look a lot worse. His personality to me feels like he would react worse to having someone take something away from him rather than giving him something bad from the start. While it is completely normal and fully expected to revise these numbers several times, I dont think Trump knows about this standard practice nor cares and sees it as a personal attack on himself.

[ProbablyClueless]

Actually, I looked into the reason Trump made the comments he did. The reason is simple. The reason is because, under her leadership, the same woman’s statistic reports missed the Biden admin job numbers to the tune of 900,000.

So, it turns out that I genuinely didn’t understand how those numbers were being collected 😂

[Syntosi]

Nah, thats just an excuse. Trump tried to give the impression that she is biased towards Biden when in reality her revised jobs report which hurt Biden was released months before the election and by extension hurt Bidens and Harris election chances.

Trump is trying to construct a satisfying narrative where he is the victim but the timeline (not to mention the evidence) simply does not line up.

[HelenaHandbasket]

It's not about accurate: the BLS System worked more or less before COVID, but now it's way off so much that it's ruining the decision making capability of the government.

Trump feels that the strong job growth numbers made Jerome Powell not lower interest rates because he felt the economy was thriving.

Then days later the job numbers were slashed drastically, once the decision was reached.

I'm thinking this is a system problem, not a partisanship problem, but when you do a crap job for the President... You get fired.

[jazzy34]

DJT is doing what he did the first time he was in office. Firing people who don't kiss his ass. -___-

[DryGermanGuy]

Shooting the messenger will definitely help to improve the hiring numbers! FFS...

The Biden administration simply accepted their -800.000 jobs correction, which also happened before the 2024 election, contrary to Trump's persecuted and paranoid whining.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-_F4rrRZfgU

[BonzoInBitburg]

Every month she was reporting numbers higher than the private payroll numbers and it was starting to look really weird. She had to revise numbers lower every month and she looked incompetent. I don't often say this but Trump was right. Unfortunately, if there are good numbers next month, nobody is going to believe it so look at the ADP private payroll numbers and Indeed job posting numbers and only believe administrations numbers it's in line with those.

[msc545]

Trump fired her because he didn't like the fact that she told the truth about some statistics that made him look bad. This is fairly straightforward and simple and there's absolutely no way to really twist it in Trump's favor. The irony in this is that had the statistics just been posted. Trump would have looked a little bit bad, but people might have been somewhat understanding. The fact that he fired her is a whole other reasons to hold him in utter contempt.

[Dongie]

Like you and your crew need a reason.

[Avicenna]

Huge revisions are your idea of accurate? For leftist propagandists, they are!

She was a political appointee and political appointees serve at the pleasure of the President. The Democrats fire all of them on Day 1.

[lightbulb27]

ok with it in that he is the boss and bosses do that all the time not even for good reasons other than they want a change. the way they revise stats is confusing so if someone can fix that, ok fine.

[exitseven]

Either she is fudging g the numbers or she is incompetent. Either was she is a Biden appointee which means she was hired to check a box. The picture of her speaks volumes

[Danzigdawson]

Or... trump is the one who wants to be able to fudge the numbers. Truth doesn't suit his lies very well.

[exitseven]

@Danzigdawson Trump wants the real number the first time. Having another number two months later does not cut it.

[Anonymous]

Once a MAGA loyalist is promoted to spread the propoganda, next month's job report will be North Korea-esque, something like: "a very high number, the biggest number ever, so many jobs they haven't even invented a number for it"

[Danzigdawson]

Trump trying to turn his lies into government-sanctioned "truth".

[matchrestore]

No. Firing someone for making a factual report to the public is fucked up.

[Shiprex]

He fired her for not falling in line with the ultimate Tango king

[onedarkcloud]

She was only 250,000 people over the number; it should have been just to make Biden look good, and she got caught fudging the numbers

[Dongie]

How do you know it was accurate? You don't!! Take your Trumpynal and get some rest.

[blackeagle007]

He did her a favor. This administration is going to be a trainweck

[dustybiker2]

Trump hates when his lies are proven.

[kavakava]

Do you have any clue why he was fired?

[seeyounexttuesday]

Do you ever get tired of lying?

[beefcakebradybatson]

RUCK FREPIGLIKSCUM !!!