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Trump touts government jobs report he once derided
Posted On Mar 10 2017
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A few hours later, Spicer was at the podium touting the numbers, which accounted for the first full month of Trump’s presidency.
“When you talk to the economists, when you talk to business leaders, they have confidence in the President’s agenda that it will yield a more favourable business climate to hire more Americans”, Mr Spicer said.
With Vice President Mike Spence, left, and staff members looking on, President Donald Trump signs an executive order on January 24 in the Oval Office at the White House.
During a campaign speech last August, Mr Trump called the Department of Labor numbers one of the “biggest hoaxes in American modern politics”.
President Trump, who as a candidate often criticized the government’s jobs’ reports during the Obama administration as “phony”, became a believer on Friday. It remains unclear if the president – who just past year in New Hampshire warned audiences not to believe the government’s “phony numbers”, according to PolitiFact – was joking.
“Great news”, Spicer tweeted before his account also retweeted a series of news articles pointing to the new jobs numbers.
“I understand that rule was instituted to deal with market fluctuations”, said Spicer.
The state of the labor market, Spicer said, was “not just a number.” and the president was “not focused on statistics”.
The comment was made while Spicer was addressing a question about leaks from the intelligence community and new WikiLeaks’ documents detailing alleged CIA hacking operations.
Barack Obama was questioned about his decision not to wear a pin during the 2008 presidential race, though ended up donning one, according to a TIME history of the pins.
Yesterday, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate’s judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the justice department for evidence that the government had sought legal permission to tap Trump’s phones. “I think there’s a difference between directing congress to investigate, ‘ he added”.
