Topic: Trump Shoots the Messenger
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Mortman

Sun 08/03/25 10:42 PM


Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report
thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/
Trump fired the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics because they reported employment numbers he didn't like. He basically shot the messenger. The BLS head doesn't just come up with the numbers on their own. She has a whole department of researchers and economists to come up with the best numbers they can in real time, while most of the data hasn't even come in, yet. But Trump thinks he knows better, and fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, claiming she deliberately "rigged" the numbers to make him look bad and make Kamala Harris look better.

Meanwhile, Trump is confused at how percentages and prices work.

Trump makes laughable claim about drug prices
www.nj.com/politics/2025/07/trump-makes-laughable-claim-about-drug-pricesand-is-immediately-ridiculed.html
On Tuesday, Trump claimed that he could lower drug prices by 1500%—a mathematically impossible number since it suggests drug companies would be paying the consumer to take the drug. Many critics immediately roasted the president on social media platform X, explaining that Trump’s math was not adding up.

“This is something that nobody else can do. We’re going to get the drug prices down, not 30 or 40%, which would be great, not 50 or 60,” Trump said on Tuesday. “No, we’re going to get them down 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%.”

“Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable because I’ve used a certain talent that I have and convinced the drug companies that have no choice,” he added.
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Slowhand

Mon 08/04/25 06:52 AM

:thumbsup: laugh The MAGA folks with their rose colored glasses will believe this.
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Slowhand

Mon 08/04/25 08:04 AM

Trump, without offering any evidence, insinuated the downward revisions were a politically motivated attack. He promptly told his team to fire Commissioner McEntarfer, much to the dismay of many economists. Her predecessor, Trump-appointee William Beach, called the decision "totally groundless." He also said it "sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau."
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motowndowntown

Mon 08/04/25 09:02 AM

This IS SPARTAAAAAA!!!!!!
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Mortman

Wed 08/06/25 12:29 AM

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Bart

Wed 08/06/25 12:40 PM




After years of getting the numbers wrong. Someone finally took accountability and fired the inept person in charge of giving correct reports. If someone can’t do their job , you fire them and replace with someone that can. DUHHH…
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Toodygirl5

Wed 08/06/25 02:53 PM





Trump is still ahead in a positive way compared to all the incompetence of J Biden while he was in office!















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Toodygirl5

Wed 08/06/25 02:56 PM





https://www.newsmax.com/us/labor-department-commissioner-of-labor-statistics-fired/2025/08/01/id/1220991/
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Toodygirl5

Wed 08/06/25 02:56 PM





J Biden is a Criminal not Yet charged of all his crimes while in office.
Edited by Toodygirl5 on Wed 08/06/25 03:01 PM
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Toodygirl5

Wed 08/06/25 02:58 PM



Wake up Dems. you still in the Dark.
Edited by Toodygirl5 on Wed 08/06/25 02:59 PM
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Mortman

Wed 08/06/25 03:32 PM

J Biden is a Criminal not Yet charged of all his crimes while in office.


If Biden is such a criminal, then why did the Congressional Republicans and Trump's DOJ fail to even come up with charges against him? Instead, he's got Tulsi Gabbard to pretend Barack Obama committed treason (he didn't).

Gabbard’s Misleading ‘Coup’ Claim
www.factcheck.org/2025/07/gabbards-misleading-coup-claim/

And even the sycophant Gabbard has nothing on Biden.
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Mortman

Thu 08/07/25 06:31 PM

It's not stopping at the BLS. Trump is getting his Energy Secretary to revise climate reports.

Energy secretary says Trump administration may alter past National Climate Assessments
www.yahoo.com/news/articles/energy-secretary-says-trump-administration-213814206.html
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said this week the Trump administration plans to review and potentially alter the nation's climate science reports.

In a Tuesday appearance on CNN's The Source, Wright told CNN host Kaitlan Collins the National Climate Assessments have been removed from government websites "because we're reviewing them."

"We will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those," Wright said.


No surprise. Trump showed he didn't care about government data when he marked up that hurricane map with his Sharpie.