Key Takeaways:
- Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of inflating jobs numbers before the 2024 election to help Kamala Harris.
- BLS was caught overstating job growth by nearly 1 million—corrections came after the headlines did their damage.
- Trump says it’s time for honest numbers and fired McEntarfer for “the biggest miscalculations in over 50 years.”
President Donald Trump is done playing games with cooked numbers and bureaucratic coverups. On Friday, after a weak jobs report and yet another “oops” correction from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Trump fired BLS Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer—an appointee of Joe Biden—and he’s not mincing words about why.
“I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee… who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory,” Trump said on Truth Social. He cited wildly inaccurate figures: an overstatement of 818,000 jobs in March 2024 and another 112,000 inflated right before the election. “No one can be that wrong,” he added. “We need people we can trust.”
This isn’t just about stats. It’s about integrity. Under Biden, jobs reports were routinely “revised” downward—after the media headlines had already moved on. Trump called it what it is: “A SCAM!”
Now he’s cleaning house. “She did it again… and got FIRED!” he declared Sunday.
Free-market leaders and liberty-minded Americans should take note: Trump’s not just fighting inflation—he’s fighting deception. It’s time government numbers were as honest as the American people they claim to represent.