National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on Meet the Press with the competitor for most dramatic political pundit, Kristen Welker.
The first question surrounds President Trump firing Bureau of Labor and Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Head of the Bureau of of Labor Statistics
did the same thing just before the Presidential Election,
when she lifted the numbers for jobs to an all time high.
I then won the Election, anyway,
and
she readjusted the numbers
downward,
calling it a mistake,
of almost
👉🏻one million jobs.
A SCAM!
She did it again,
with another massive “correction,”
👉🏻and got FIRED!
She had
the biggest miscalculations
in over 50 years.
The buck stops with the head of the department.
Harpy.
She makes my head hurt.
I had an almost uncontrollable urge to smack her through the screen! Hassett deserves a medal for good conduct.
MNN BREAKING…
*PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRES SNL’S “PAT” FOR ‘ANDROGYNOUS ADDITION’ AND ‘AMBIGUOUS TABULATION’
Thanks for starting my week off with a hearty gut laugh! Too funny! Have a great day! 😆😂😆
Wondering why the Administration bothers talking to the Failed News Networks.
They tell their small audience that the Admin. spokesperson is lying whatever answer is given anyway.
Stop wasting time with the enemy? Sounds good to me.
As for me I can’t bring myself to watch.
My guess is that they hope to convince one or two viewers that something is amiss. I don’t watch these networks anyway but instead of talking just show the numbers and the revisions. It’s obvious the numbers are jacked up during Biden’s term and the opposite happened with Trump.
Also it should be mentioned that during Biden’s term most job creation was within the government itself.
Anyone with half a brain – right half or left half can see that she is not so smart.
Unfortunately, many of the regular viewers of these propaganda shows have far less than half a brain.
She was playing defense attorney for fellow Dem Erika, looking for “hard eidence” that her people cooked the books. Pounding her fingertips into the table..
And whatever wasn’t government jobs that were created, they were jobs that went to illegal aliens. We the People were dead last for the Biden Administration. (spit)
“most job creation was within the government itself.” That is slowly being corrected, I believe. Lots more to do.
What’s your zip code?
Easy to understand both the BLS & Fed are located in the ‘District of Corruption’ where they (Dem’s) have a 76% registered voter advantage & voted at an 84% clip in 2024 for “Cackles”. Yet, we’re blindly supposed to believe that everything these DC bureaucrats produce/manufacture is pure, above reproach & gospel truth?
Create an equal bipartisan/partisan commission of governors to run the numbers & they’d have more credibility.
And yes I do understand that the Board of Governors for the Federal
Reserve is a compilation of 7 personnel all but 2 nominated by Biden.
Both & BLS & Fed operate under a shroud of secrecy with little to no transparency on how they arrive at their initial findings & their subsequent revisions. This is why they are not to be trusted. The entire analysis should be published along with names signed to the document. We should know who is responsible for the data & their hypothesis. If they’re all Paul Krugman types with an active political bent then they & their analysis should be subjected to debate or scrutiny.
Just eliminate the Fed completely! Spending our money on billion dollars worth of renovations is corruption beyond. If they want luxury, get rid of them and there wealth already gained by robbing us, can be used to update their several residences. The people should sue them and repossess there luxuries! Just another scam perpetuated on us!
Congress will need to repeal the alwthat allow the creation of the FED in 1913.
What are the odds??
Especially when they believe the FED is a necessity.
I agree.
They work this way because they are allowed to do so.
Right you are!
Well said!
Exactly! I noticed that the BLS what placed in every democrat hellhole representing each part of the country. Well the NE can barely be avoided but San Fransicko to represent the states nearby, Houston for part of the South mid west. Pretty sure Atlanta for Southeast. Lots of Conservative areas completely avoided!
You got message … could be important…
I see loser Stephen Hayes is still a loser, and this clown was on Fox News.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/03/stephen-hayes-trump-firing-labor-statistics-commissioner-banana-republic-stuff/
Marco Rubio’s done a pretty good job of pushing back against the whole premise. Steven Miller has a fantastic job . Walker was like that lady’s interpleader.
He should have started off by saying “I didn’t realize you were her attorney .” Then he should have said “I don’t even understand what we’re talking about here. Are you suggesting she was entitled to stay in that job as long as she wanted.” Then he should have said “I can see you’re trying to make a big deal out of this because that’s what you do about everything Trump does but it’s not a big deal and it’s not important so let’s move on. The department she leads has been colossally wrong multiple times and that’s enough. Most normal people get that. “
Welker is a strident and highly partisan propagandist.
Intolerable presentation.
She is a saint compared to people like Nicolle Wallace.
Since the fake pandemic, much of what we have typically relied upon in the past is now captured (fake)
“The New Normal”
If the cabal can fake a global pandemic, Nothing is off the table. If you really stop pretending long enough to contemplate the magnitude of this fake pandemic which directly led to the installation of Obama third term, then you will see that anything and everything can be faked. Including foreign wars.
You left out Presidential assassination attenpts. Those are faked, too.
The fist implicitly not fake, the second might have been the CIA, FBI, whoever trying to impress the stupid masses that they are special – nope. Fake like so many other items.
They were only able to fake it because they had all the levers of power, they no longer do.
It sounds as if there is a significant and loud protest going on just outside the studio.
Nice job NBC.
Sounds like a job AI can replace. In fact the entire Bureau. And that’s just a start.
McEnfarter…
She ran a tube from her colon to her computer to inflate Biden’s job numbers.
Hassett, he’s a real smart feller.
McEntarfer is a real fart smeller.😹
Wow, thats good. Wordman would be proud.
You beat me to the complement 🙂
Amazing wordplay, right on! 🤣🤣🤣
I like Kevin. He’s knowledgeable and pretty unflappable.
The U.S. collected $29.6 billion in tariff revenue in July.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1952099383790682309#m
Doesn’t matter how much money we bring in, congress will find a way to spend it and line their own pockets. Trump & his team brought it in, he alone should decide where it goes! He can pay down the deficit but I’d like to see federal investment in our infrastructure, not to States or cities where it won’t get used for it’s purpose but to local towns, where constituents have a say and watchful eye!
Has anyone asked that scrawny richard cranium J Powell if he’ll now change his mind about the strength of the labour market?
He relied on those inflated numbers to claim interest rates can’t go down just yet. Those numbers turned out to be fake. The real job numbers were essentially zero for two months.
Had the Reserve Board members had the real numbers, they may have pushed scrawny Powell to reduce rates, even if only by 25 basis points.
Yoda. ❤️
“The first question surrounds President Trump firing Bureau of Labor and Statistics Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer.”
Am I the only one with dyslexia who read that as Dr. Erika McEnfarter?
Pithy posts this day, shows massive talent here. Rock on everyone.
This Hassett guy must have very good blood pressure. He is so composed and unruffled. Now me, my blood pressure would have spiked just hearing some of Welker’s questions.
She’s annoying, abrasive and unattractuve. I lasted 9 minutes and learned nothing.
What’s the point of badgering someone?
If she’s looking for evidence, there’s plenty of evidence of her own incompetency.
Well that’s 40 jobs that are unnecessary. Garbage in, garbage out, they don’t even take into account the people who just fell off unemployment and never have! AI can take these 40 jobs and require States to add in whether a person found a job when their unemployment ran out. Everything about the Labor Statistics is bs. There’s actually at least 2900 who work for the bureau (Idk if that’s one bureau or all five) just eliminate it completely! Only certain companies report there numbers so what is the point?
The validity of the BLS numbers has been declining since BHO’s interregnum, and perhaps even before that. They’ve been all over the map since the shamdemic and I’d guess I’m not the only person who doesn’t pay much attention to them any longer. As far as this struggle session goes, the second time the prosecutor, er, “reporter” asked him for evidence, it would have been nice had he said, “the Commissioner serves at the pleasure of the president and he decided we need someone else.” Full stop.
Why aren’t the numbers revised before they put the out? In sports they do replay (revise) on the play and that seems to work.
“Is this the Trump Economy?” after 6 months.
After 4 years of 20 M illegal aliens invaded the country, wars all over the place, after 4 years of absolutely trashing the economy and using the Cloward Piven strategy on the American people. Geeesh.
She’s a horrible woman.
Biggest mistake in 50 years. Unacceptable. 60% response rate. Rate Cut delayed.
Good Lord, there needs to be some BIG changes at BLS. Lot of apathy to get it together in that Department. I would give this Department a BIG Fat “F”.