The labor market is slowing, but it’s all good news in the White House.
The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, a slight decline from April, according to a jobs report released Friday. The unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent, still within the ballpark of historic lows reached in 2023, when the unemployment rate reached 3.4 percent—the lowest it had been in more than five decades. But within the folds of the report hid a major red flag for Donald Trump’s agenda: The U.S. is still bleeding manufacturing jobs.
But even the president’s favorite conservative network couldn’t hide its dismay at the slight manufacturing downturn.
“Now, 8,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in May. That’s not what you wanted to see,” said Fox Business host Stuart Varney.
I’m waiting for the beginning of July for the end of the tariff pause. Dow Jones will probably shed a few thousand points before Trump reacts by pausing them again or repealing them since he always chickens out. \
If Trump is going to wreck the fucking economy with his idiocy I might as well take a shot at profiting from it like all of the grifters in his administration.