Employers added 235,000 new jobs in February, dropping the unemployment rate to 4.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in their monthly jobs report released on Friday.
It’s a number Trump touted, retweeting a Drudge Report headline saying the economy is “GREAT AGAIN” in all capital letters.
But Trump once called the same report he is now celebrating “phony,” saying real unemployment numbers were much higher than the what the BLS reported. Read more (3/10/17 9:41 PM)
On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer had no shame in admitting his boss, President Trump, only accepts facts and figures when they favor his cause.
The admission came after a reporter asked during Spicer’s daily press briefing why Trump celebrated Friday’s jobs report, when he called previous reports under Obama "phony.“
“I talked to the president prior to this,” Spicer said. “And he said, to quote him very clearly, ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’”
Spicer may have been joking, as he delivered the line with a wry smile and chuckled after he finished. The White House press corps laughed along with him.
There are multiple instances where Trump and his administration decried polls or news outlets as “fake news” when the information wasn’t helpful to their cause, but later touted those same polls or news outlets when they reported something favorable. Read more (3/10/17 3:19 PM)
