Trump Fires Commissioner of Labor Hours After Weak Jobs Report

Friday, August 01, 2025

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.

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Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today[image or embed]
" Joey Politano(@josephpolitano.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-01 02:50 PM | Reply

More: "I can't believe what I just saw," said Peter Mallouk, president and chief investment officer of Creative Planning. Trump's social media post seemed like a parody or satire at first, Mallouk said.

"This is not healthy," he added. "We can't have a set of numbers come out and fire somebody that served under numerous administrations in various roles because you don't like the numbers."

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-01 02:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Hey Trumpers, how bad does it have to get before you call foul?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-01 03:07 PM | Reply

Never.

Only half of them think Trumps a pedo.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-01 03:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

New numbers! Better numbers!! Me want Sharpie numbers!!!

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-01 03:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump doesn't know how to run a business.

I'd be surprised to find out he actually graduated from high school.

Trump is the perfect example of failing upwards.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 03:18 PM | Reply

Congratulations, MAGA----

Your fate is in the hands of a petulant four-year-old goober.

Donald praised this same man for doing a fine job last month.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 03:21 PM | Reply

" Donald praised this same man for doing a fine job last month."

And now he thinks she's Trans.

Or a DEI hire; same thing.

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-01 03:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Under the Heading of 'Something a 5 Year Old Would Do'.

This is your criminal traitor narcissist President, Trumpers.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-01 03:29 PM | Reply

#6: Trump is the perfect example of failing upwards.

This a true phenomenon that occurs in the USG. Promote somebody up to a desk job and away from the field where they could do more damage. I saw several examples of this during my career.

Now we have this imbecile in charge of the most powerful military and largest economy in the world: static.wikia.nocookie.net

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-01 03:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Jeff must be proud.

They are already fixing the inflation stats.

Now they are fixing the labor stats.

#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-08-01 03:48 PM | Reply

-Your fate is in the hands of a petulant four-year-old goober.

Actually, YOUR fate is in those hands.

My fate isn't. I would never surrender my fate to a president.

You can't make the distinction.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 04:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Jeff and the Sock Puppet Band don't show up on threads like this.

At least not until Q tells them what to say.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-01 04:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Next report. A boom in the employment rate.

#14 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-01 06:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

ScottS has been appointed as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-01 06:22 PM | Reply

Grok is gonna be working overtime.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 06:27 PM | Reply

Jeff and the Sock Puppet Band don't show up on threads like this.

Jeff is too busy fainting on his fainting couch over some jean advertising to be concerned about Trump's authoritarian overreach.

Besides. He supports all things Trump.

Including tanking the economy.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 06:30 PM | Reply

My fate isn't. I would never surrender my fate to a president.

You would if Trumpy and the maga maroons went after YOU, Lady Beverly, instead of Lady Ruby. But I do love the image of Beverly standing out front of his house swinging his purse at a squad of armed masked federal agents.

The President has already destroyed the careers and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and public servants and he still wants more scalps.

But because you are a recipient of white privilege you think this won't happen to you and you might get some temporary protection from this cruel and inhumane treatment of your fellow humans. Eventually the face eating leopards will come for your ugly mug, too.

Meanwhile, let's all say a big "Ha Ha! and "--" to everyone else who are not as privileged as you.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-01 06:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Perfect example of the "kill the messenger" style of governing!

#19 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-01 07:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

There is no need to accept any positive economic news from the Trump Occupation Government. Those of you who do prove you are hacks or stupid. Both, likely.

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 07:06 PM | Reply

This is great. Now we will have record breaking jobs numbers every month. It's like COVID. If you don't count people who lost their jobs then they don't exist. Let the good times roll!

#21 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-08-01 07:06 PM | Reply

I don't know where I struck that nerve, EBERLY. Kansas cast its lot with an incompetent madman, as did Texas. It and we will get what we deserve. If you can save yourself, why should. Maybe we can meet over coffee safe in Canada.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 07:12 PM | Reply

Deepstate hacks beware, there is a new sheriff.

#23 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-01 07:18 PM | Reply

Looking for Trump to deliver that Golden Age without lying about, VISITOR, Not much of an ask.

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 07:23 PM | Reply

Trump is the Derp State.

He was raving about Erika McEntarfer last month.

Now he fired him for exposing the fact Trump is a moron who is destroying America.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 07:25 PM | Reply

"But because you are a recipient of white privilege you think this won't happen to you"

What is Trump gonna do to me?

What is Trump gonna do to you?

If you can imagine me swinging my purse, then you can imagine Trump actually doing something to me

Like what?

You can't come up with anything can you?

Hysterical drama queen.

I realize if you're a career loser, you have to blame someone beside yourself

Why not Trump?

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 07:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

What has Trump done to other people? Could use as guide.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 07:38 PM | Reply

MAGA losers gotta keep the losing train running!

Thanks for all this s"t, MAGAdiots, nobody wanted freedom and prosperity anyway.

#28 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-08-01 07:41 PM | Reply

Did they fire the guy who counted all the little girls who were drowned in Texas by the brain dead-------------?

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-01 07:51 PM | Reply

-What has Trump done to other people?

Plenty.

You can imagine you're one of them.

Maybe it's fun.

#30 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 07:58 PM | Reply

But because you are a recipient of white privilege you think this won't happen to you

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-01 06:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

You should get you apply and get you a card. Those white privilege cards come in mighty handy. Just the other day I was at the grocery store and the lines were backed up in the food aisles. I whipped out my white privilege card and they opened a register just for me. They work good at places like Disney too, when the ride lines get backed up. I also get a 20% discount at places like 5 Guys and Chili's... But don't be expecting any traction on purchases like menthol cigarettes, malt liquor or Black and Mild.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-01 08:03 PM | Reply

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Loves the Pedo so much he can't deal with the topic

#32 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-08-01 08:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

So let me get this straight...

Under Trump:

1. We changed the way we measure inflation to make him happy.
2. We scrubbed his name from the Epstein files to make him happy.
3. We now fired the labor commissioner to make him happy.

What will these Pedo Freaks do next? Change the age of consent?

#33 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-08-01 08:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump is a sexual predator and a murderer. Everything that's happening right now is leading to the point that, should any refuse to believe it, they will have to shoot awful lot of messengers.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-01 08:18 PM | Reply

Maybe before the end of his term he'll be able to put his enemies in a gulag or stand them in front of an anti-aircraft gun like those he idolizes.

#35 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-08-01 08:33 PM | Reply

We knew all this stuff was coming after he had ICE arrest the Statue of Liberty and her dirty, vulgar poetry about welcoming immigrants.... and Deported her back to France.

Next up, Trump Fires the Pope!

(when you need Distractions, might as well go all out!)

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-01 08:53 PM | Reply

Another blatantly corrupt move by a blatantly corrupt administration.

At least Eb's having fun.

#37 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-01 08:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Send her to the corn field with the Epstein Files!

#38 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-01 09:01 PM | Reply

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

-Pete Buttigieg

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 09:16 PM | Reply

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

-Pete Buttigieg

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 09:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

LMAO this is the same person who faked the job numbers by over a quarter million before the election and had to walk them back... You're giving fake doctor a run for his money.

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-01 09:21 PM | Reply

What is Trump gonna do to me?
#26 | POSTED BY EBERLY

He can play games with EOs to raise and lower tariffs at will, causing instability between America and our trade partners, making everything more expensive and telling you deal with it by consuming less.

As to what he can do to non white people, deny them birthright citizenship, detain them, deport them, demonize them.

As to what he can do to transgender people, deny their existence, criminalize them, demonize them.

But you specifically. You seem like the, "I got mine, ---- you!" type.

#41 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 09:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

LMAO this is the same person ...

I'm sure whatever you're gonna write is gonna negate his point.

... who faked the job numbers by over a quarter million before the election and had to walk them back... You're giving fake doctor a run for his money.
#40 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Nope.

Looks all you did was try your best to smear him.

Because you can't actually respond to what he said.

Better luck next time, loser.

Womp womp.

#42 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 09:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

What will these Pedo Freaks do next? Change the age of consent?
#33 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

It would allow tens of millions of republicans to come out of the closet and embrace who they are.

God's will really.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 09:35 PM | Reply

-At least Eb's having fun.

Everyone is.

#44 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 09:40 PM | Reply

-But you specifically. You seem like the, "I got mine, ---- you!" type.

In a snarky sort of way ... ..yes.

But I voted against the man. This isn't defending him.

Just saying I don't worry about the guy who occupies 1600 Penn.

And most of you don't either

You're just whiners

#45 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 09:48 PM | Reply

#45

What someone who is more interested in the politics and the horse race than the law and the Constitution might say.

#46 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-01 09:52 PM | Reply

Where's that unAmerican little b)+{# ballringer to call out this administration for moving to set up his favorite thing-Pravda?

That stupid s%^*heap called NPR Pravda but will probably slavishly defend this and any subsequent jobs report that doesn't pass any smell test.

#47 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-01 09:55 PM | Reply

I never studied economics and even I know what a ------ trade deficit is. Dumbest President ever. Perfect for the likes of OneNut, LFTHNDTURD, BoazHole and BallWasher.

#48 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-01 10:27 PM | Reply

Just saying I don't worry about the guy who occupies 1600 Penn.

And most of you don't either

You're just whiners

Nothing to see here, move on. No one cares because I don't.

Say, you must be one of those 'smart' Conservatives?

#49 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-01 10:29 PM | Reply

Actually, YOUR fate is in those hands.

My fate isn't. I would never surrender my fate to a president.

Then you must be independently wealthy, live in a bubble unaffected by climate change and buy your stuff from Mars.

'Just Roll Over'. Perfect advice from a MagaMoron. They have all the expertise.

#50 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-01 10:32 PM | Reply

See? Living fine ... ..just need to whine

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 10:37 PM | Reply

Trump way outside of the Overton Window.

This isn't Obama or Bush.

No President in my lifetime has had such an authoritarian governing style.

No President has been handed so much power.

Congress doesn't dare defy him.

The judiciary is in his pocket.

He's doing whatever he wants.

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 10:41 PM | Reply

Trump, the Inevitable Downfall of a Demagogue

- political primate

www.youtube.com

3 mins

#53 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-01 10:46 PM | Reply

-Trump way outside of the Overton Window.

It's as if we're watching a movie.

#54 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 10:54 PM | Reply

It's as if we're watching a movie.
#54 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Millions of people living in America are.

Millions of government employees have been laid off and rehired and laid off again

Medicare has been slashed which will hurt millions of seniors.

Hard working immigrants are being persecuted.

Deportations to El Salvador? "Alligator Alcatraz"?

Trump is the first president who is a convicted criminal and sex offender and you don't care, but you should. You didn't vote for him. But you go out of your way to normalize his behavior.

I've seen this movie before, it doesn't end well.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 11:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's like watching a movie, for you. Because you're not directly affected.

But.

Millions of people living in America are.

(First two sentences got deleted off my prior post by mistake ... )

#56 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 11:04 PM | Reply

-I've seen this movie before

Do tell ... ..

#57 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 11:38 PM | Reply

I don't care?

Neither do you. You're being entertained

#58 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 11:38 PM | Reply

It's not about whether you care or not.

Because you don't.

But that's besides the point.

The point is, you actively try to normalize it.

You can't deny this.

#59 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-01 11:42 PM | Reply

-It's not about whether you care or not.

Exactly.

Everything else is crap

#60 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 11:50 PM | Reply

-The point is, you actively try to normalize it.

Perhaps it's a coping mechanism

Some of it actually is normal. Not all of it, obviously.

I work in a chaotic environment oftentimes. I calm people down. I normalize the chaos.

It's not done with an agenda. It's not even about politics.

It's that I have a built in thick skin for Chaos.

You see me push the panic button when Obama or Biden was president? Never.

#61 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-01 11:57 PM | Reply

You see me push the panic button when Obama or Biden was president? Never.

#61 | Posted by eberly

Hard to bend down to push it with that fence post up our a&^! AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

#62 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-02 12:43 AM | Reply

I don't care?

Neither do you. You're being entertained

#58 | Posted by eberly

You're assuming for some reason. Usually when people get particularly opinionated or passionate.

Not sure why, but you consistently assume instead of taking people at their face value when they're passionate.

#63 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-02 12:48 AM | Reply

Nobody cares.

-Projecting Eberly

#64 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-02 01:53 AM | Reply

you consistently assume instead of taking people at their face value when they're passionate.
#63 | Posted by jpw

it's a coping mechanism
#61 | Posted by eberly

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-02 11:43 AM | Reply

One more step Trump's taken to ensure the world will look at the United States as a -------- nation who puts out information that is garbage. The US dollar is on its way to being as powerful as the Iranian Rial.

#66 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-02 11:57 AM | Reply

-You're assuming for some reason.

Assuming what?

#67 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-02 12:06 PM | Reply

-Not sure why, but you consistently assume instead of taking people at their face value when they're passionate.

what you call "passionate" I call acting like a hysterical juvenile for attention.

Sorry you can't tell the difference.

I see sincerity where it really exists.

#68 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-02 12:09 PM | Reply

just need to whine

#51 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Wine always helps but does not solve the problem.

You pretend you don't care. But apparently you care enough to tell us how much you don't care.

Otherwise you would not even bother.

#69 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-02 12:19 PM | Reply

-You pretend you don't care.

You pretend you actually care.

And it's not that I don't care.

I adjust. I focus on what I control vs what I don't.

You can't tell the difference

#70 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-02 04:35 PM | Reply

What kind of braindead buffoon doesn't care about something like this??

#71 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-03 01:41 AM | Reply

what you call "passionate" I call acting like a hysterical juvenile for attention.
Sorry you can't tell the difference.
I see sincerity where it really exists.
#68 | Posted by eberly

Is Kristi being sincere here?

Reporter: "My audience is predominantly Latino, so they kind of every day say they're fearful because a lot of people have been targeted based on their skin color, not necessarily" "

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: "That is not true."

Reporter: " "because of their legal status."

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: "And so, that has been another false narrative that has been put out there in the media that I absolutely want to throw back at you and say that is absolutely false. And don't you dare ever say that again."

#72 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-03 12:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The putrid sack of---------- derailed the economy at warp speed.

#73 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-03 03:11 PM | Reply