Originally published at: January Jobs Report Shows Trump Is Failing On Campaign Promises to Blue Collar Workers
After the first full year of President Donald Trump’s economic policies, which came with rhetoric aimed especially at growing manufacturing job opportunities through protectionist policies like tariffs, the verdict is in: Meh. “I think it’s definitely fair to say the policies are not helping employment in that industry,” Penn State professor of economics and labor…
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On a more positive note, ketchup futures are through the roof!
Who did a better job as president?
Biden: 48%
And so on …
(Did I mention that it’s a Rasmussen Poll!)
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Well no one could have predicted such an upstanding citizen and good, honest family man would have failed his campaign promises. Glad the legacy media is on this. Glad that goddam AG made of brown sugar is on it. Bravo American electorate, you must be very proud . . .
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A few years ago I invested in five or six top AI stocks, as a result my stock portfolio is doing better than ever but the other day I overheard my middle aged son saying that all the money is held by boomers. I worry about him and his siblings and my grandchildren. What happens if AI renders white collar workers like my son unemployable.
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Frist!?! Well I woulda been, if it weren’t for those meddling kids having to turn my iPhone off and on AGAIN before being able to post!
I’ll note again that “Vile Bill” Clinton was excoriated by the so-called liberal media (SCLM) if he didn’t produce 250,000 jobs per month. 
That’s about 15,000 jobs a month or fewer than 500 jobs a day in a nation. A booming economy adds about 150,000 jobs a month, Golden said. For context, the U.S. added about 160,000 monthly jobs in 2024. (emphasis added)
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The president is supposed to be excoriated by the press if the economy doesn’t produce enough jobs month in and month out.
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“Trump’s anti-immigration push may be more public and performative, the number of people removed from the country has been about the same as during other presidential administrations.”
Sure, sure…but how many past presidents can brag about their Stasi-like secret police murdering US citizens on the street?
(“Everybody said it couldn’t be done. You didn’t see Sleepy Joe doing that. People are saying it’s the most incredible thing they’ve ever seen!”)
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Actually the Press should simply report the facts and let them stand alone.
I’m sick and tired of the Press explaining things to me, that I can see, read and interpet on my own.
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Your vision of the press expired with the rise of social media. Nobody needs to independently see, read or interpret anything when they have social media influencers telling them what to see, read and think.
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What the writer could have made clearer about the net +181,000 jobs for 2025 is that the nonfarm payroll numbers for every month of 2025, except October (gov’t shutdown), were revised substantially downward. That puts today’s January gain of 130,000 in a different light: a figure waiting for a major revision.
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PFFT… By now I would expect most Americans to know that promises made to Blue Color workers are never going to be honored until they up their gratuities to TRUMP.
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Equal rights for all Huemans!
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Of course. My point is that there’s a massive double standard that Democrats have to overcome and fight against. It’s absolutely NOT a level playing field.
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Results for anything that isn’t an outright catastrophe are meh. Meh has become code for “Hooray we aren’t getting obliterated!” How long before we have ticker tape parades for only half the population sliding into poverty.
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Jobs where they’re at, unemployment where it’s at (4.3%), costs where they’re at the response from Wall Street is pretty much “meh” and they aren’t expecting a rate cut in March.
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Most Blue Color workers I know don’t read so they don’t know they are being screwed over.
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The diapered dotard could “create” all the manufacturing jobs he wants. The problem then is who in the world will trade with the US while he’s squatting in what’s left of the White(s Only) House?
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I’m still having trouble with the numbers: 130,000 added to the workforce, in a month in which there were 108,000 layoffs. Does that mean there was a net of 22,000 added? If so, why isn’t that number reported? If not, what’s going on?
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