Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner after terrible jobs report because the problem can't be him
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IIVI
Superstar
It’s barely been 6 months. 42 more months to go.
These people can’t take accountability and they’re intentionally doing more damage.
This country is fukked.
These people can’t take accountability and they’re intentionally doing more damage.
This country is fukked.
Pull Up the Roots
Breakfast for dinner.
Gotta fill the position with a yes-man.
1/37
@RpsAgainstTrump
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the BLS, suggested suspending the monthly jobs report, claiming its methodology and assumptions are fundamentally flawed.
-Fox News
2/37
@RpsAgainstTrump
Who needs phony rigged woke numbers when we have the president to tell us how great the economy is?
3/37
@jose_ar_salcedo
4/37
@xray_media
Trump fired BLS Commissioner McEntarfer Aug 1 after July’s 73K jobs report. Now his Heritage Foundation pick wants to suspend monthly reports entirely—because reality keeps failing MAGA math.
Antoni—a Trump loyalist who called BLS data "out-of-step" with perceptions—would kill the gold-standard report economists have trusted since 1940. His "solution" to downward revisions? Hide quarterly data until Fox News can spin it. Meanwhile, Trump’s hiring freeze forces BLS to slash staff, risking "undetected errors" per former Commissioner Groshen. Rigged game, broken scoreboard.
When autocrats can’t win on facts, they ban the scorekeepers.
5/37
@Paahtovanukas
Of course he did and I assume tomorrow @FoxNews reveals the inflation is below 0%.
6/37
@thebeaconsignal
If you don’t like the scoreboard
call it broken.
If you’re losing the game
unplug the console.
Suspending the jobs report
because it “feels inaccurate”
is the most honest lie in American economics.
It’s not about jobs.
It’s about vibes.
And the new methodology is
“shut up and look at the flag.”
This isn’t policy.
It’s stagecraft with spreadsheets.
Smile for the photo. Burn the data later.
They’re not fixing the numbers.
They’re fixing the illusion
that numbers ever mattered.
You’re not looking at leadership.
You’re watching the audit get assassinated in a three-piece suit
while the country claps in Morse code.
Next month’s report will just say:
“Trust us. It’s going great.”
7/37
@johnniechad
8/37
@TDPatriot1
Just like project 2025
9/37
@Dumbly_Dore
Banana Republic!
10/37
@CharlesPerreir7
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick for BLS chief, is already trying to gut transparency by pushing to suspend the monthly jobs report the cornerstone data that businesses, policymakers, and markets rely on. He claims the methodology is “flawed” but what this really means is he wants to bury bad economic news and rig the narrative. Quarterly reports? That’s just a fancy way to delay accountability and hide the truth from a public desperate for real information. This is a blatant attack on the integrity of economic data, and if the Senate confirms him, they’re greenlighting a political hit job on the facts. No one should trust a guy who’s ready to weaponize statistics for bullshyt propaganda.
11/37
@desota
The first blunder for the incoming Commissioner of the BLS: his inclination to suspend monthly job report data from the American people... this could signal the dawn of a new period where we find ourselves operating in an economy without proper insight... -DW
12/37
@fxshea62
If they’re not prepared, they’ll have to use the older methodology or else biz decisions will be affected - among other things. They can revise later.
13/37
@JHendricks66
He’s flawed
14/37
@ColoradoMod
So get rid of the Data because it’ll make Trump sad, while also taking away a key indicator of how the economy is doing.
That’s a terrible idea
15/37
@DjOmegaMVP
It doesn't seem as though people realize how serious this is.
16/37
@SaltymommaBear
The economy can only go up from here
17/37
@DividedSkyGuy
Another grossly unqualified nomination.
18/37
@Derrick55096
Flawed when they don’t produce the results you want
19/37
@MakeTexasBlue22
So what other morons who have zero experience at the job have to say?
He's literally just a sock puppet for a very little hands, little wanker pedophile man child.
20/37
@AngryGoose42069
No data is better than bad data to them. What a stooge
21/37
@odinikaeze
If the economy were really “booming” like they claim, they’d be plastering the jobs report on every screen in America.
Hiding the data tells you everything you need to know.
22/37
@DenisonBarbs
Pretty soon we won't have any independent numbers. Trump will put out his own numbers just like North Korea does.
23/37
@20HBCurl_Xup
Next they'll move to nationalize or silence ADP
24/37
@maniac10087
Didn't he direct Project X?
25/37
@DevRitual
Suspending the monthly jobs report? That’s like flying blind on the economy. Transparency and timely data are essential for businesses and policymakers. Flawed or not, we need better solutions—not scrapping the report.
26/37
@MenInBlackNZ
Another retard lackey for Trump.
27/37
@justiceTru56693
They were always going to do that americans who voted for this guy they may be furious whatever this guy promised the opposite he is doing
28/37
@davidcaryhart
If Antoni was any kind of economist, he would not be working for a Christian organization (Heritage). He would be employed in the financial sector. On July 31, the moron wrote: "Inflation Is Down Since January and Should Keep Improving." That's a lie!
29/37
@LarryBoorstein
Only MAGA morons would trust job numbers or CPI going forward with fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer replaced by E.J. Antoni, chief economist of The Heritage Foundation. Antoni is there to make Trump look good.
30/37
@AnatoliUkraine
Of course.
When the numbers don’t flatter Trump, the solution isn’t fixing the economy—it’s hiding the truth.
Authoritarians fear facts for a reason.
31/37
@comedicanadian
dude looks like a literal mobster minus decent suit taste
32/37
@kgiselle653
Of course Trump's pick wants to suspend the jobs report- when reality looks bad, their first instinct is to hide it.
33/37
@IronyKumar
Thank god they are suspending those awful ugly mean looking numbers. No one needs to hear negative numbers! Let's just trust Trump's guesstimation on things!
34/37
@davidcaryhart
@RealEJAntoni On July 31, you wrote: "Inflation Is Down Since January and Should Keep Improving." When can we expect your correction? Or are you just another pious hack? /search?q=#crackpottery
35/37
@TheChefTrevor
Nope. /search?q=#Trump just wants a yes-man in there so he can spew out false information to mask the shyt job he is doing as POTUS. If you cannot see this, you are part of the problem.
36/37
@jasonarti
It will be replaced with a new and improved system called “Trust me bro”.
37/37
@chillybirdbc
He’s suggesting that because he knows the numbers are about to tank even more!
[Quoted tweet]
BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
@RpsAgainstTrump
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the BLS, suggested suspending the monthly jobs report, claiming its methodology and assumptions are fundamentally flawed.
-Fox News
2/37
@RpsAgainstTrump
Who needs phony rigged woke numbers when we have the president to tell us how great the economy is?
3/37
@jose_ar_salcedo
4/37
@xray_media
Trump fired BLS Commissioner McEntarfer Aug 1 after July’s 73K jobs report. Now his Heritage Foundation pick wants to suspend monthly reports entirely—because reality keeps failing MAGA math.
Antoni—a Trump loyalist who called BLS data "out-of-step" with perceptions—would kill the gold-standard report economists have trusted since 1940. His "solution" to downward revisions? Hide quarterly data until Fox News can spin it. Meanwhile, Trump’s hiring freeze forces BLS to slash staff, risking "undetected errors" per former Commissioner Groshen. Rigged game, broken scoreboard.
When autocrats can’t win on facts, they ban the scorekeepers.
5/37
@Paahtovanukas
Of course he did and I assume tomorrow @FoxNews reveals the inflation is below 0%.
6/37
@thebeaconsignal
If you don’t like the scoreboard
call it broken.
If you’re losing the game
unplug the console.
Suspending the jobs report
because it “feels inaccurate”
is the most honest lie in American economics.
It’s not about jobs.
It’s about vibes.
And the new methodology is
“shut up and look at the flag.”
This isn’t policy.
It’s stagecraft with spreadsheets.
Smile for the photo. Burn the data later.
They’re not fixing the numbers.
They’re fixing the illusion
that numbers ever mattered.
You’re not looking at leadership.
You’re watching the audit get assassinated in a three-piece suit
while the country claps in Morse code.
Next month’s report will just say:
“Trust us. It’s going great.”
7/37
@johnniechad
8/37
@TDPatriot1
Just like project 2025
9/37
@Dumbly_Dore
Banana Republic!
10/37
@CharlesPerreir7
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s pick for BLS chief, is already trying to gut transparency by pushing to suspend the monthly jobs report the cornerstone data that businesses, policymakers, and markets rely on. He claims the methodology is “flawed” but what this really means is he wants to bury bad economic news and rig the narrative. Quarterly reports? That’s just a fancy way to delay accountability and hide the truth from a public desperate for real information. This is a blatant attack on the integrity of economic data, and if the Senate confirms him, they’re greenlighting a political hit job on the facts. No one should trust a guy who’s ready to weaponize statistics for bullshyt propaganda.
11/37
@desota
The first blunder for the incoming Commissioner of the BLS: his inclination to suspend monthly job report data from the American people... this could signal the dawn of a new period where we find ourselves operating in an economy without proper insight... -DW
12/37
@fxshea62
If they’re not prepared, they’ll have to use the older methodology or else biz decisions will be affected - among other things. They can revise later.
13/37
@JHendricks66
He’s flawed
14/37
@ColoradoMod
So get rid of the Data because it’ll make Trump sad, while also taking away a key indicator of how the economy is doing.
That’s a terrible idea
15/37
@DjOmegaMVP
It doesn't seem as though people realize how serious this is.
16/37
@SaltymommaBear
The economy can only go up from here
17/37
@DividedSkyGuy
Another grossly unqualified nomination.
18/37
@Derrick55096
Flawed when they don’t produce the results you want
19/37
@MakeTexasBlue22
So what other morons who have zero experience at the job have to say?
He's literally just a sock puppet for a very little hands, little wanker pedophile man child.
20/37
@AngryGoose42069
No data is better than bad data to them. What a stooge
21/37
@odinikaeze
If the economy were really “booming” like they claim, they’d be plastering the jobs report on every screen in America.
Hiding the data tells you everything you need to know.
22/37
@DenisonBarbs
Pretty soon we won't have any independent numbers. Trump will put out his own numbers just like North Korea does.
23/37
@20HBCurl_Xup
Next they'll move to nationalize or silence ADP
24/37
@maniac10087
Didn't he direct Project X?
25/37
@DevRitual
Suspending the monthly jobs report? That’s like flying blind on the economy. Transparency and timely data are essential for businesses and policymakers. Flawed or not, we need better solutions—not scrapping the report.
26/37
@MenInBlackNZ
Another retard lackey for Trump.
27/37
@justiceTru56693
They were always going to do that americans who voted for this guy they may be furious whatever this guy promised the opposite he is doing
28/37
@davidcaryhart
If Antoni was any kind of economist, he would not be working for a Christian organization (Heritage). He would be employed in the financial sector. On July 31, the moron wrote: "Inflation Is Down Since January and Should Keep Improving." That's a lie!
29/37
@LarryBoorstein
Only MAGA morons would trust job numbers or CPI going forward with fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer replaced by E.J. Antoni, chief economist of The Heritage Foundation. Antoni is there to make Trump look good.
30/37
@AnatoliUkraine
Of course.
When the numbers don’t flatter Trump, the solution isn’t fixing the economy—it’s hiding the truth.
Authoritarians fear facts for a reason.
31/37
@comedicanadian
dude looks like a literal mobster minus decent suit taste
32/37
@kgiselle653
Of course Trump's pick wants to suspend the jobs report- when reality looks bad, their first instinct is to hide it.
33/37
@IronyKumar
Thank god they are suspending those awful ugly mean looking numbers. No one needs to hear negative numbers! Let's just trust Trump's guesstimation on things!
34/37
@davidcaryhart
@RealEJAntoni On July 31, you wrote: "Inflation Is Down Since January and Should Keep Improving." When can we expect your correction? Or are you just another pious hack? /search?q=#crackpottery
35/37
@TheChefTrevor
Nope. /search?q=#Trump just wants a yes-man in there so he can spew out false information to mask the shyt job he is doing as POTUS. If you cannot see this, you are part of the problem.
36/37
@jasonarti
It will be replaced with a new and improved system called “Trust me bro”.
37/37
@chillybirdbc
He’s suggesting that because he knows the numbers are about to tank even more!
[Quoted tweet]
BREAKING: U.S. layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
1/3
@Acyn
Reporter: The president's nominee for BLS commissioner recently said that the BLS should suspend issuing monthly job reports and only issue quarterly reports—is suspending these monthly job reports a real option?
Leavitt: He floated the idea of possibly suspending until they can get the data and methodology in order and this president wants to ensure the BLS again is putting out accurate and honest data that the American people can trust.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1955326489651712004/vid/avc1/1280x720/mpxQcv7E6yEqu51i.mp4
2/3
@xray_media
August 1: Trump fires BLS chief after 258k job revisions. August 12: His puppet nominee calls monthly reports "flawed." The admin doesn’t want accurate data—they want *favorable* fiction.
Antoni’s proposal to suspend reports comes after May/June figures were slashed by 253k jobs total—exposing the admin’s allergy to reality. The BLS’s 50% survey response rate isn’t new; Trump’s 100% loyalty demand is. When NEC’s Hassett claims they want “honest data,” remember: They fired the watchdog for math they didn’t like.
A 140-year institution dies by a thousand political cuts.
3/3
@AlZheimerHammer
That's 500,000 cuts, in Trump speech!
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@Acyn
Reporter: The president's nominee for BLS commissioner recently said that the BLS should suspend issuing monthly job reports and only issue quarterly reports—is suspending these monthly job reports a real option?
Leavitt: He floated the idea of possibly suspending until they can get the data and methodology in order and this president wants to ensure the BLS again is putting out accurate and honest data that the American people can trust.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1955326489651712004/vid/avc1/1280x720/mpxQcv7E6yEqu51i.mp4
2/3
@xray_media
August 1: Trump fires BLS chief after 258k job revisions. August 12: His puppet nominee calls monthly reports "flawed." The admin doesn’t want accurate data—they want *favorable* fiction.
Antoni’s proposal to suspend reports comes after May/June figures were slashed by 253k jobs total—exposing the admin’s allergy to reality. The BLS’s 50% survey response rate isn’t new; Trump’s 100% loyalty demand is. When NEC’s Hassett claims they want “honest data,” remember: They fired the watchdog for math they didn’t like.
A 140-year institution dies by a thousand political cuts.
3/3
@AlZheimerHammer
That's 500,000 cuts, in Trump speech!
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
I was only unemployed 26 days, exception to the rule.
The “average” worker isn’t finding a new job in weeks.
It now takes 24 weeks - half a year!!
1.8 million Americans have been unemployed 27+ weeks.... the worst since 2017 outside the pandemic.
And once you pass that 27 wks line?
You don’t exist in the data anymore.
The “average” worker isn’t finding a new job in weeks.
It now takes 24 weeks - half a year!!
1.8 million Americans have been unemployed 27+ weeks.... the worst since 2017 outside the pandemic.
And once you pass that 27 wks line?
You don’t exist in the data anymore.
WTFisWallace?
All Star
A selfie? Tf
They approving American-ness & unemployment rights based off of hairlines or someshyt?
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
I dont know, they kept saying there was too much light in my basement.
A selfie? Tf
They approving American-ness & unemployment rights based off of hairlines or someshyt?