The convicted criminal President Donald Trump did not like July's job creation numbers so he fired the agent in charge and said the numbers were fixed. The report also noted that the job numbers for the previous 3 months were reduced by 258,000 jobs. Reductions or additions to the job numbers are nothing new to Presidential administrations or congress and take place because of the way jobs are reported by the business community.
Simply said, Trump's actions are in line with his thirst to destroy everything the federal government touches so he and his administration will be the lone power to tell people what to do and how to live their lives. And there is an additional part of the firing to install his unfit stooges and clowns to ultimately reverse the fact that his first administration lost 2.7 million jobs. He actually said he would create 25 million jobs. Everyone knows Trump is a serial liar and now he wants his appointed stooge and clown to lie about future job creation on his watch. Trump has already lied about the economy in his second term.
The following facts will tell the story just how bad Trump and other GOP administrations record on job creation has been for the past 44 years from January 1981-January 2025 vs. Democratic Administrations.
Reagan served 8 years, created 16.1 million jobs
Bush 41 served 4 years created 2.5 million jobs
Clinton served 8 years created 22.7 million jobs
Bush 43 served 8 years created 1.3 million jobs
Obama served 8 years created 11.3 million jobs
Trump served 4 years lost 2.7 million jobs
Biden served 4 years created 15 million jobs
Total net jobs created by GOP in 24 years 19.9 million gross minus 2.7 million lost equals net jobs of 17.2 million jobs created.
Total net jobs created by Democrats in 20 years 49 million jobs created with no losses.
Reagan was the only GOP President that left office with a lower unemployment rate than when he took office. (explains why GOP so bad at creating jobs.) All three Democratic Presidents left office with a lower unemployment rate than when they took office.
A economic recession began on all 4 GOP President's watch. None began on any of the 3 Democrat's watch.
Clinton administration created more jobs in 8 years than all four GOP Presidents did in their 24 years of service. And President's Obama and Biden each created more jobs while in office than Bush 41, Bush 43 and Trump did on their watch.
The highest sustained unemployment rate in the last 70 years took place on Reagan's watch when it stood at over 10% for 10 straight months from September 1982 till June 1983.
This writer uses the 44 year period named above because that is when Reagan started the propaganda that the democratic party were the big spenders and had no real economic plans. But if one looks at the facts from 1929-1981 the preceding 52 years, one will find that Democratic administrations outperformed the GOP administrations by a wider margin than the later period.
The actual facts tell us that over the past 92 years the democratic party job creation record can be described as robust while the GOP's job creation record can be described as poor. And Donald Trump kept that poor job creation record in his first term in office.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Numbers in this commentary taken from The Labor Department, The CBO, Historical unemployment rates and other records of the federal government.
