White House: Job totals were ‘phony,’ but they’re ‘very real now’
The new administration on Friday promoted new Labor Department statistics that show US employers added 235,000 jobs in February.
After taking a picture with a 5th grader of Briarwood Christian School, Cornish, the president left the group to pursue their 45-minute tour, said the White House pool report.
Maybe they’ve all gotten jobs, too!
“The Secret Service traditionally takes full control of managing security around presidents-elect and presidents, with local police sometimes assisting at public events”, Politico added. And in February 2015, employers added 238,000 jobs, or 3,000 more than this February.
American women plan to use International Women’s Day to stay off the job and demonstrate across the country in an effort to seize on the momentum built from massive marches held a day after Trump’s inauguration.
Like anybody who distractedly slams out a bunch of tweets while he’s distracted, pissed off, or busy on the toilet, President Donald Trump occasionally has to delete some of his online missives due to typos.
At the end of Trump’s Friday meeting with House Republican leaders about Trumpcare, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl repeatedly tried to ask Trump for proof. Here’s a chart of montly jobs growth dating back to the Great Recession, for refence.
The administration credits cooperation with the private sector for delivering “tens of thousands of new jobs”, along with “withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership” negotiations, declarations supporting gas pipeline projects and red-tape reduction as factors behind an apparent lift in confidence.
He asserted that some “great economists” estimate the real United States jobless rate is as high as 32% or 42%. “And the highest I’ve heard so far is 42 percent”.
There’s also the problem that Trump is bragging about job creation numbers before he has enacted any meaningful policy changes to grow the economy. The economy under President Obama saw 76 months of consecutive job gains.
In the end, Trump speculated that the numbers were being cooked in Obama’s favor in the name of making him look like a more effective president than he actually was.