Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Aug 1 A little like when Trump wanted to just stop testing for Covid because there was too much Covid and so he wanted to just suppress the numbers.
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Sharpiegate. There are a gazillion examples of this.
He’s gonna fire all the bad facts.
Trump's head is full of shit.
How can anyone invest in the US if the numbers are fake?
He continually demonstrates his stupidity. Which continues to demonstrate how many stupid people there are out there who will believe anything he says. It’s the same story every day, just the same stupid overlain on a different topic. His mind is so limited it’s pretty amazing. Syphilis for sure.
The thing is, if he had treated Covid as a national emergency instead of a personal affront, there is a fair chance that he would have been reelected in 2020. So he's too stupid to even get self-interest right.
Cooking the books is how he runs his businesses, so he wants the government to be run the same way.
Seriously, what adult talks like this???? How are we here, with this absolute disaster of a human anywhere near the halls of power? I fully buy into the theory that the election was manipulated because the cognitive dissonance of thinking people actually chose this buffoon is too farcical. 🤬
Whiny little bitch! Every state monitors labor. His desire to control and suppress the stats is futile.
Chairman Trump will ceaselessly root out these woke Canadian wreckers and roaders that threaten the Party’s mission to fully implement Donald J Trump MAGA thought. All hail Chairman Trump and his little orange book!
A pole cat.
So, we can no longer trust the BLS...
Well Chris his mag hats will think it’s wonderful
This banner is still accurate today.
What a "Richie Rich" dic
Trump may “THINK” he loves America, but he doesn’t. He hates America for what it stands for the “United States”!!! Trump doesn’t even like American women so I wish ppl would start seeing him for what he is. A miserable Wannabe Dictator!!
Exactly like that. “Slow the testing down, please.”
New Executive Order to end obesity. Bathroom scales banned.
I feel like that was honestly the moment in his first admin where his central philosophy (governing and just as a person) became extremely clear: it’s only real if I like it and everyone has to go along with the way I see it
Bingo! Cannot trust any numbers coming from this administration.
Heard someone say that Fox News business will likely stop reporting jobs numbers
Shoutout to Ron DeSantis too
STOP THE COUNT!
How can someone be so stupid? He knows nothing about anything! I trust zero numbers from his administration. I don't even trust the inflation numbers he released. I suspect when he puts Kid Rock in charge of the BLS we'll all of a sudden see amazing numbers.
presidenting is so easy when you don’t like the facts, fire the person who reported the facts and hire someone who will lie. genius
he is a goddamn lunatic. and lying.
I can’t stand to even read his bullshit. Total nonsense.
* The Project 2025, white Christian nationalists are taking over. *
She will be replaced with someone who will not question me and add whatever numbers I tell them to.
Remember a month after taking office in 2017 after campaigning on fake job numbers - Trump & Spicer claimed the numbers were legit now because they were good for him.
Release the #TrumpsteinFiles
Or Sharpiegate when he wanted Alabama to be covered by FEMA funds.
is it foreclosure time? fear and loathing in amaerica
He is accusing the Commissioner of BLS of doing exactly what he is doing now in his administration. Lying about everything, tariffs, trades, immigration, Epstein, legislation and even Iranian bombings.
we were still under lockdown when biden came in right?
Cool, a clear confirmation that every number you see will be a lie now.
Well, you know, math is hard.
And he wanted to keep infected cruise ship passengers in the ships because he didn't care about people's lives, only about keeping "the numbers" down so people wouldn't blame him.
Shut the f*ck up trump which is all I want to say to him.
Or when he publicly ordered that we stop counting votes when he thought he was ahead of Biden on election night.
exactly!!! We no longer have a USA Gov - its Trump’s Palace
Why did he put his own name in quotes
Or when the valuation of his properties didn’t fit his agenda.
Who believes him anymore? I know the cult, but like anyone else with these unhinged rants?
A lot like!
What will it take to get the MAGA's to see what a POS this man is? I assume nothing, now. He's going to cook the books -- inflation data, jobs data, GDP data, etc. He'll attack the Consumer Confidence Index (the Conference Board) until they capitulate as every other institution has. We're dying.
This is expected. Today's statistics are the last we can believe. He's ordering his minions to cook the books. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... A hateful, hateful, POS, in the process of destroying any part of the world that stands between him and power. Let's see when he declares martial law.
Or the Sharpie Hurricane incident.
I am begging you to post alt text. It's so easy to do my god.
I'm confident with a Trump appointee they won't be manipulated for political purposes.
What we don't know CAN and Will kill us.
Hates bad press more than anything. Maybe if he did things that were prudent and popular he would have better numbers. Of course, that may come at the expense of his own self-enrichment and corruption.
BINGO!!! WAR-ON-TRUTH
Or when he just wanted Jeff to quit stealing underage girls from his payroll.
Quantification or it didn’t happen.
He tried to quarantine passengers on the Grand Princess, so as not to inflate the count by a few doz. Then: “I don’t need to have the numbers dbl because of 1 ship that wasn’t our fault.” Now: I don’t need to have the BLS collect/analyze data that proves the tanking economy is exclusively my fault.
But you can’t suppress reality. People, businesses and market will know the truth.
But you can’t suppress reality. People, businesses and market will know the truth.
Why do we stand around in shock every time Trump cooks the books again and again? How many "illegals" came into the United States during Biden? 21 million? One out of every 12 adults in the US came in during 4 years? When Trump talks, he just makes up numbers. He's a pathological liar.
Actually, it’s exactly like that
Narcissistic personality disorder. Anything that makes him look bad or wrong MUST be false.
This is the sign of a tin pot dictatorship. If you don’t like the truth you get rid of the truth teller
Please have her on the show
And like then I don't think it'll work
considering you guys were using every test number and every death for political value, one could understand. and many "covid deaths" were not from covid anyways. people at MSNBC were hypocritical on covid...including Rachel. she was quite the hypocrite on some things.
If you stop the Covid testing, there will be fewer cases.
"So, supposing we hit the jobs numbers with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light......."
Is this a legal firing? Also if he is immune from criminal prosecution, why doesn’t he install a guillotine on the White House front lawn and get fanatical Steven Miller to chop her head off?
OMG🔥
It’s so Russian of him.
47 got an F in statistics in college.
Yes, and don’t forget keeping people with Covid on a vacation cruise, so they wouldn’t add to the new numbers! If they’re not on land, they’re not sick! Unlimited lies……. Is there any way to muzzle this fool?
Still waiting for you to apologize for this.
This guy is passing judgement and firing them based on their lack of integrity. THIS fucking cheater.
Yup.
What will he do if they are worse next time?
He is so painfully stupid. And even more painfully evil.
Exactly the same.
Trying to bend reality
A lot like that.
This is your periodic reminder: Trump is literally both of the two worst presidents in our lifetime.
Not everyone cheats and is vindictive and immature like trump.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter.” Trump keeps putting this at the end of his letters, obviously mimicking the letters he receives from attorneys threatening to sue him.
It’s all a tv show to hime, numbers are being “produced.” No, they are being factually reported and the Frump Propaganda Machine can’t have truth be out in “truth social.”
Exactly! He’s losing. He doesn’t know what to do. And, because is his declining mental state, he’s losing touch with reality. This will only get worse!
Why all the outrage? He is doing the only thing he knows: trying to get out of bankruptcy by cooking the books. Elections have consequences. Kudos to the 36%-ers who couldn’t be bothered to vote.
Jobs reports going forward are going to be like: “Americans rejoice as President Trump added millions and millions of jobs last month. His penis is also totally not small.”
A little bit... 👀
And with that he’s off to his golf club in New Jersey for the duration of the weekend with no public appearances scheduled.
This should be the final straw for investors in the US; tariffs, fake economic numbers.
Cooking the books!
Fixing the numbers because we didn’t like the truth and it reflected badly on he and his administration. The fix is in.
For sure. If he isn't personally counting it, it doesn't exist.
You can't trust who's telling the truth, if anyone, in this administration. They got caught cooking the books and are looking for a scapegoat! Same ol song and dance from liars!
Is ANYONE going to stop this?? I know the answer- but just- screaming.
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Obviously it's bad but it is kind of bleakly funny in the way that a lot of his Epstein-related flailing is: he has never solved a problem in his life and plainly has no idea how to do that beyond running away from it very strongly. Just not a competent guy!
While he was sending or selling COVID tools to Russia!!
COVID did not care what gender, creed, nor political agenda anyone had. It ripped inside millions of bodies. Drumpf did not know how to handle it, because he threw the blueprint in the trash in which President Obama gave him! But the LOW IQ wanted their boy back into the oval office!
Great point- and spot on
A little bit like the Red Queen in Alice’s Wonderland; “ off with her head, off with her head”
Once a narcissist, always a narcissist.
I can think of one man who needs to be put out to pasture and he is a lying son of a bitch who wears orange make-up.
The Gilded Age of Dumb.
77 million fucking drooling idiots wanted this. Remember that when you go about your lives that there are a whole bunch of the worst and or dumbest mother fuckers there are just driving a car right by you or making your sandwich.
Exactly
It worked. He is president again, able to steal more than he did last time in broad daylight with no fear. No one tries to stop him. He won because we all want the specific thing we want too much to work together.
you want investment to run away fast? This is how you make investment run far far away.
It's corruption thrown right in our faces. He's dismantling our govt piece by piece and through luck and circumstance, no one can stop him. It's still unbelievable this monster was able to appoint 3 supreme court justices during one term and he'll probably get more. Un-fucking believable.
He called it a “hoax” for 5 weeks while he and his buddies dropped stocks and reinvested, in PPE, Tela Health and BODYBAGS! You heard that right Body bags. Ivanka also has a patent from China for Trump Caskets. These people are EVIL!
Is there anyone walking the earth so devoid of character that he can call the Georgia Secretary of State, demand that he find him "11,780 more votes", then accuse OTHERS of faking their numbers?
Of course . Blame it in a “Biden appointee” since facing the fact that the country is TANKING under your regime, you have to protect your grossly outsized ego and fire the statistician. What a complete tool.
All people need to do is pay attention to all of the RIF announcements by corporations and the slaughter of the government jobs to know this was coming. 🤦🏻♀️
Trump raps up tariffs and the markets drop. He has to have someone to blame and this Job report statistician will be just the start of his weekend of online rants
Exactly
He is doing the same with weather and climate data.
He thinks the dems cooked the books because he thinks everyone does all the time. Numbers are only a statement of intention for him.
Exactly like
a LOT like it, actually straight-up corrupt mad king sh!t
His mental health is quite poor in my opinion. So sad.
I’ll hire Only the best people 🤡
the way this asshole reacts to things is so telling as to his own state-of-mind/character. He just can’t imagine that someone is non-partisan and ethical.
She doesn't "produce" the numbers. And he also is ignorant of the fact that revisions always occur because they don't have all of the job numbers when the report is released. It has been the same for decades.
This idiocy, this madness will NOT reassure the markets. And if I were a foreign investor, I would stay the fuck away. So, great move, Pettyman Smallcock.
Denial is a hallmark of fascism and authoritarianism.
What he does with everything. If he doesn’t like the truth he changes reality. His whole life, convincing banks, investors, voters, politicians, that he will deliver something different that what is reality.
There was an interview of a National Park Service employee yesterday who said that all the positions that measure and compile scientific data at the parks are also being let go. He said because the regime doesnʻt want any data to be available to show climate change impacts. Same playbook.
Hooray, now the jobs stats will skyrocket!!!
Chances to get correct numbers in the future = 0
Hahahahaha! 🇨🇦
But states pay unemployment when workers are laid off. So, there's that...
It’s just so ridiculous at this point! When all else fails, blame Biden or Obama.
I would be wary of trusting any jobs numbers going forward. "September added 1.2 million jobs!"
My first thought, Chris!
Except this will crash the global economy.
We will most certainly be able to trust the numbers after this. 🤬
It worked for Florida. #MakeAmericaFlorida
A lot like
Came here to say that. Magical thinking. Suckering in the tubes once again.
Sure let’s just run this nation completely and utterly into the ground no one there to stop it like Congress.
I hate Trump and this administration, but I think the jobs report has been fucked with for many years
Look at that, another thing Trump did that we just have to get used to because there is no will to tell him no from anyone with any power.
Bad jobs reports are a reason to lower interest rates. This idiot just wants everything all the time, so he can't get anything.
Geeee what do you do when you don’t like the numbers? You fire the numbers person that’s what you do. Just stop counting job losses just like Covid went down when we stopped testing for it
His whining is just so pathetic...
They’re already making up inflation numbers, so, sure why not?
The Emperor has no clothes
so this is what trump is doing....people are out of jobs I and millions of people know that trump is cooking all the data books ...nothing new for him he has done this through his whole career in real estate that's how you bankrupt 5 times you lie until caught then you dump
Little twitch every time he writes "jobs numbers".
People will still notice as new jobs don’t appear, or existing jobs disappear.
He’s not actually trying for a booming economy is he? That’s the weakest most pathetic shit I’ve ever heard. I thought he was going for disruption to reduce imports.
In Trumpistan, the books are cooked to taste like hamburgers.
The time to stop this was 2016 but we were called hysterical and told that Hillary was worse than Trump.
Soon trump will just make up financials!
He's an idiot!!!!
Does anyone actually believe that Trump wrote this diatribe? B/C when he speaks in public the guy cant even stay awake in front of the camera's & has to cheat when he plays golf-I would love to hear him personally confront & debate about the Job Statistics to prove the legitimacy of this conclusion
And apparently that worked with his base. Total amnesia/denial about that entire period. 😒😵💫🤪
Does he thinks his people even read all these names and numbers?
You can’t fire half of the government workforce and expect to half positive growth numbers
We have entered an era where any numbers we are told can not be trusted. Everything that this regime tells us is a lie.
You'll never get another accurate economic or health assessment from this White House, that is clear.
It's worse than stopping Covid testing. At least if the testing weren't done you wouldn't have to worry about untrusted numbers. Now, not a single organization will trust anything they're told with regard to economic data.
Not long ago he was bragging about having fired 150,000+ workers
in Alberta if a death was due to COVID the province blamed it on an existing condition like if the victim stubbed their toe a month before it must have cause a blood clot that killed them
tl;dr: "This person is telling you facts. I will fire this person and replace them with someone who repeats my lies."
How do you Trump is lying? His lips or his fingers are moving.
Important caveat: When he wanted to stop testing for COVID, people around him told him NO, so it didn’t happen. Those guardrails are gone. He gets what he wants now, top to bottom, and we all suffer the consequences.
All he does is whine, whine, whine, whine, point fingers, send masked thugs to arrest citizens, slap tariffs on goods as a regressive tax on US citizens, cheat at golf, whine some more, gratify his ego, abuse women, lie about abusing women, and blame EVERYONE ELSE. What a bag of turds.
Black mirror, through and through (dark, reflects what his action is/will be but placed on others, fragile and dystopian)
Not a little like. A lot like.
I would only add that Jerome Powell should stay on the ground floor away from windows and perhaps prepare his own meals for the next few years.
And then 1M people died, which we've memory-holed.
The Russian asset is Russiaing
He's such a child. Any time something doesn't go his way he has to blame somebody. It is NEVER his fault. How his supporters can't see right through him is beyond me.