WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump, who has enjoyed a reputation as a great businessman despite having bankrupted casinos, has overseen an economy that produced fewer than half as many new jobs in his first six months as predecessor Joe Biden did in his final six months.
In fact, May, June and July may have been the worst three months of job growth since the coronavirus pandemic, federal data shows.
Between February and July, the U.S. economy in Trump’s second term added 486,000 jobs compared to the 1.05 million created from August 2024 through January, according to a HuffPost analysis of data from the Labor Department. That comes out to an average of 175,000 jobs per month under Biden and just 81,000 under Trump.
Trump was apparently so incensed by the numbers that he is demanding the firing of the employee responsible for the office that produces them, accusing her, without any evidence, of faking the numbers in favor of Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, and against him.
“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he wrote in a social media post Friday afternoon. “The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP’ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting ‘Kamala’ elected – How did that work out? Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should also be put ‘out to pasture.’ Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
