Donald Trump reacts to spiking unemployment numbers [View all]

President Donald Trump on Friday defended his administration’s jobs record again in a Truth Social post, in which he claimed the rising unemployment figure is due to cuts in government jobs.

“100% OF OUR NEW JOBS ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! I could reduce Unemployment to 2% overnight by just hiring people into the Federal Government, even though those Jobs are not necessary,” Trump wrote, adding, “I wish the Fake News would report the 4.5% correctly.”

“The only reason our Unemployment ticked up to 4.5% is because we are reducing the Government Workforce by numbers that have never been seen before,” Trump wrote.

Why It Matters

Unemployment rose to 4.6 percent in November, raising concerns of a cooling market. The Trump administration has struggled with the public reception on jobs numbers, especially after a few significant corrections on previously reported numbers, which led to Trump firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics in August due to the July jobs number coming 73,000 jobs short of expectations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/donald-trump-reacts-to-spiking-unemployment-numbers/ar-AA1SGIxV

Donny always quotes numbers never seen before if you know what I mean.