{"id":1055545,"date":"2025-08-07T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055545"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:36:23","slug":"snowflake-trump-does-poster-board-presentation-to-justify-firing-of-bls-commissioner-after-disastrous-job-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/snowflake-trump-does-poster-board-presentation-to-justify-firing-of-bls-commissioner-after-disastrous-job-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake Trump Does Poster Board Presentation To Justify Firing of BLS Commissioner After Disastrous Job Numbers\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump is so embarrassed about his disastrous jobs numbers that he put on a bizarre poster board presentation with unverified numbers to attempt to justify his firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Instead of doing the real work to grow the job market, Trump is trying to cook the books to gaslight the American people \u2014 and this time, he brought in Project 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/static.heritage.org\/project2025\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">author<\/a> Stephen Moore to present data that \u201cno one else\u201d has.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXdPYdaYAjaWGa9tDQpGy7ICnvP4sECgXGWi-r_vITNitZThvibzQekk6tT1ElP84gYY3YGB8ODRhNIE_37wcIj5tEY5rcny4xvupKQTLFcFPRlyMibUTTj-vpNCbsrGR5b3Scpwug?key=YbaRLUEblHYVqX5fqWYipQ\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement<\/em><\/strong><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s latest job report was so awful that he\u2019s trying to cook the books. Apparently, firing the BLS Commissioner wasn\u2019t enough \u2014 now he\u2019s doing poster board presentations from the Oval Office to try and spin his trainwreck of an economy using unverified, exclusive data. While Trump hyperfixates on justifying his awful jobs report, costs are rising,&nbsp; and layoffs are skyrocketing. The American people aren\u2019t going to fall for his stunts.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Trump continued his campaign to spin his disastrous jobs report, but we have the receipts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>May, June, and July were the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jamiedupree\/status\/1951261889935135153\">WEAKEST<\/a> three months of job growth since the pandemic \u2014 and before that, since 2010 and the Great Recession\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manufacturing employment has fallen by <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/MANEMP#\">28,000<\/a> since Trump took office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The July jobs report was a trainwreck itself, adding just <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mtkonczal\/status\/1951263351327076746\">73,000<\/a> jobs.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In response to the horrible jobs numbers, the stock market saw one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025\/card\/dow-on-track-for-worst-week-since-trump-unveiled-tariffs-in-april-WypxUQoU57287nIR4q2I?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhG2U8CVSZoyyBnPNsHlTncyJV1AOlWt0jZcEec-rGt3bkF7SUlqwkjjXo5sgQ%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688cf0c4&amp;gaa_sig=Ov8A9L7_iIGY_S_DCXGM1n4rnOG5HPo1UrLow9k3V9Dy8aB_Q_Rb3xAq4LNVlIwozuqrWXz5xXiqLz0dLVONRw%3D%3D\">worst<\/a> days in months.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after Trump\u2019s economy saw the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ernietedeschi\/status\/1950898167781666919\">six-month jump<\/a> in prices for durable goods since 1987, annual inflation ticked up to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/byheatherlong\/status\/1950898692698894734?s=12\">2.6%<\/a>, and layoffs jumped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengergray.com\/blog\/summer-lull-ends-july-job-cuts-spike-tech-ai-tariffs-blamed\/\">140%<\/a> from last year. To make matters worse, Trump\u2019s disastrous, billionaire-first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2025\/jun\/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states\">budget<\/a> will cost millions of jobs while his reckless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-01\/highest-us-tariffs-since-wwii-set-to-cut-growth-boost-inflation?srnd=phx-trump-second-term\">trade war<\/a> will skyrocket inflation. It\u2019s no surprise that only <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/poll-trump-approval-policies-economy-health-immigration-45681b8cd07782ba7a143d323efe9dd7\">one-quarter<\/a> of U.S. adults say that Trump\u2019s policies have helped them since he took office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is so embarrassed about his disastrous jobs numbers that he put on a bizarre poster board presentation with unverified numbers to attempt to justify his firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Instead of doing the real work to grow the job market, Trump is trying to cook the books to gaslight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Snowflake Trump Does Poster Board Presentation To Justify Firing of BLS Commissioner After Disastrous Job Numbers\u00a0\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/snowflake-trump-does-poster-board-presentation-to-justify-firing-of-bls-commissioner-after-disastrous-job-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-07T22:36:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-07T22:36:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/snowflake-trump-does-poster-board-presentation-to-justify-firing-of-bls-commissioner-after-disastrous-job-numbers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/snowflake-trump-does-poster-board-presentation-to-justify-firing-of-bls-commissioner-after-disastrous-job-numbers\/\",\"name\":\"Snowflake Trump Does Poster Board Presentation To Justify Firing of BLS Commissioner After Disastrous Job Numbers\u00a0\u00a0 - 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