Donald Trump Only Likes Winning Numbers
By: WhoWhatWhy
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DonkeyHotey08/03/25
Friday, President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, because he was bummed by the low job creation numbers in the July jobs report. This move is a sign that Trump, the authoritarian, will corrupt government reporting numbers to avoid embarrassment and make him feel like a success.
Government statistics are relied upon by academia, industry, and governments around the world. The reputation of America is diminished if people can't trust the data that the US government provides.
Trump has been inflicting his insecurity about the size of things since Sean Spicer falsely claimed, in his first official press conference, that Trump's inauguration had drawn the "largest audience to ever to witness an inauguration, period — both in person and around the globe."
When COVID-19 first hit, Trump didn't want to allow a cruise ship with COVID-stricken passengers to dock because "I like the numbers being where they are" — this was when total US COVID-19 fatalities stood at 19 .
Throughout his time in politics, Trump has been obsessed with his numbers being the largest (or occasionally, as in the illustration above, the smallest) and the best. He monitors media ratings, wealth sizes, hand sizes, crowd sizes, political polls, flag poles, election results, and more. Meanwhile Americans suffer whatever reality the president is trying to obscure.
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Although its fun to make light of, this is a very serious and ominous development. Trump has signaled to the world that he is not interested in reality, and is willing to distort important government statistics for his own megalomanic purposes. There is no bottom to such behavior.
Most People Aren’t Buyin’ It
In fact they’re not buying much of anything
Trump can fake the numbers and fire the messengers all he wants but t hat won’t change this:
Please, please, no one tell me that I have to respect the 40% of people who see Trump bragging about the numbers when they’re good and then whining like a five year old that they’ve been rigged when they’re bad and can’t see through him. It’s impossible to make any excuses for people who support that kind of fatuous nonsense. They know what he’s doing and they either don’t care or they like it. Either way, those people are lost.
Like when Trump took credit for the great economic numbers in 2024, while Biden was in office, and then blamed Biden for the bad numbers in 2025, while he was in office. They have no shame, sorta like Trump, an that's a dangerous pair, for balless sychophants..
Apparently, the seeder would like everyone to forget that the low job creation numbers in the July jobs report were the result of the largest revision of such numbers in the past 50 years. The revision was not even adequately explained. Prior to the covid epidemic such revisions were rare. Since then, they have become common, which leads us to question how reliable the numbers are.
The President reacted emotionally. He made matters worse.
He ALWAYS DOES!
The numbers will now become totally unreliable, hurting US, and the worlds economies, as actual numbers, good or bad, are needed for companies to operate profitably. Trump is an unhinged tantrum throwing retaliatory showing of a spoiled bitch, and maga is now seeing the Epstein snitch, as he grabbed them by the snatch, cause he needs to scratch his itch, and now they're his fertile patch, and they his bitch, to about insult and talk, cause he can't walk anything but a perp, as he LIES and his supporters continue buys, DERP....
No honest person can believe a word Trump says without independent verification.
America has been laid low.
even dishonest persons have difficulty
I think to be persuaded to this point of view, you should make some effort to explain what an "adequate" explanation should look like. Because we do know why these reports get revised - new information. The reports can only reflect the data received from businesses. It is common for more complete data to trickle in months after the initial report is released. Sometimes, the revision reflects an improved assessment, and sometimes, it's worse than we thought. There's nothing mysterious about it.
His position does not allow him that luxury.
But his supporters do.
Trump acted in the same way every authoritarian ruler does.
There is a team of 40 or more data analysts who work to compile the hard data and then turn it over for review to the head of the department who reviews and then reports the truthful numbers.
The head of the Bureau shouldn't be fired for reporting all the true data compiled from a variety of solid reliable sources.
Trump is a big whiny baby and since he is a habitual liar he could've just blown some smoke about a brief downturn, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, yadda, yadda.
No matter what Trump says however untrue the MAGA base buys it anyway.
I guess the old saying "numbers don't lie" should be retired forever since the orange king says he only wants numbers to glorify him.
If they're solid reliable sources, why are their reports so far off the mark?
These are the same bean counters that the Dems use as well, and somehow, when the numbers for Biden weren't so swell, I don't recall him crying fowl, so take a gander at the gaggle of goobers supportin this pitiful Uber pathetic president, with more vices than nices, more bullshit than the history of cows have ever had to deal with, as the cattle skiddadle up the creek without a motor boat, cause Trump is your/the goat, no one even remote, ly close to this POS potUS who is so pathetically low it is just really beginning to economically show, as we will get much worse before better, 47 seems behind the ears, even wetter, as Epstein envy be drippin out of one who thinks he reigns, as he creates the poor it on thick, unlike his little tinkie winkie spick-ette, cause worse, we could not, get...
Mmmmm, that kinda makes the rest of you're "poetic" rant irrelevant, doesn't it?
Usually because the report is due at a certain time and the data is incomplete. The government relies on the business world reporting these numbers. If the data don’t come in by a certain time, the report is still required to be published. Then later, more data trickles in and the report is revised. This happens constantly.
Yup. I only report the number of employees on my payroll once per quarter, due at the end of the month following the end of a quarter (so, for example, by July 31st for the second quarter).
Remember?
Trump on Covid numbers: “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
Trump on allowing passengers with Covid to exit the Grand Princess cruise ship in San Francisco: He would " rather have them stay on... I would rather because I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double..."
MAGA mentality loves all that, of course.
Trump’s Firing of Labor Statistician Isn’t Just Petty—It’s a Despotic Red Flag
This kind of behavior is not without precedent—it just usually happens in autocracies.
In Zimbabwe, under Robert Mugabe, economists were punished or disappeared when they reported inconvenient inflation data. In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro jailed statisticians who resisted massaging economic figures. And in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly fired heads of the national statistics agency when inflation reports didn’t align with official talking points. Each case led to the same outcome: a loss of institutional trust, a collapse in credibility, and economic chaos.
Trump, in this sense, is employing a subtler version of the same despotic script.
The firing of McEntarfer isn’t just about one jobs report. It’s about sending a broader message: facts are malleable, and the only truth that matters is what serves the president’s interests. Or, in other words, the truth is now defined by what makes Trump wants or makes him look good. But what makes Trump’s move even more insidious is that it dovetails with his long-running strategy of deliberately undermining public faith in institutions.
This isn’t some minor bureaucratic reshuffle—it’s a flashing red warning light for anyone who cares about functional governance. Once a president can fire a nonpartisan data official without evidence, simply for producing numbers that don’t serve his narrative, the door is wide open to a system where only propaganda survives.
This is how truth gets replaced by loyalty, how competence gets pushed out by obedience, and how democratic governments quietly rot from within. If Americans don’t push back now—regardless of political affiliation—this won’t be the last time objective reality is sacrificed for personal power. It will be the new normal.
I heard on the news this morning that trmp "says" he will hire someone for commissioner. The next commissioner will be someone who flunked 7th grade algebra.