Trump isn't helping himself by slamming a 3.9% unemployment rate

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The only way to take Donald Trump's rhetoric about jobs seriously is to ignore every piece of information and forget everything we know about his record.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-isnt-helping-slamming-39-unemployment-rate-rcna151064

Late last week, however, the news wasn’t quite as great as it’s been recently: The preliminary data showed an economy that added 175,000 jobs in April, as the unemployment rate inched up, from 3.8% to 3.9%.

And it was at that point when Donald Trump, who told the public two days earlier that Biden-era job numbers should be seen as “fake,” seized on the data from April to claim that the White House is “destroying” the country.

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......In fact, in Trump’s first year in the White House, the average number of jobs created by month was 176,000 — almost identical to the tally from last month. The average number of jobs created by month across the first three years of Trump term (before Covid) was 177,000, which, again, is nearly identical to the tally from last month, which he described as a “disaster.”

The total number of jobs created across Trump’s first three years was roughly 6.3 million, while the total number of jobs created across Biden’s first three years was roughly 14.7 million......

The only way to take the Republican’s rhetoric about job growth seriously is to ignore every relevant piece of information and forget everything we know about his own record.

In fact, in Trump’s first year in the White House, the average number of jobs created by month was 176,000 — almost identical to the tally from last month. The average number of jobs created by month across the first three years of Trump term (before Covid) was 177,000, which, again, is nearly identical to the tally from last month, which he described as a “disaster.”

The total number of jobs created across Trump’s first three years was roughly 6.3 million, while the total number of jobs created across Biden’s first three years was roughly 14.7 million.

The only way to take the Republican’s rhetoric about job growth seriously is to ignore every relevant piece of information and forget everything we know about his own record.