{"id":10862,"date":"2025-08-01T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:09:41","slug":"trump-feuert-die-statistik-und-erklaert-mathe-zur-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/trump-feuert-die-statistik-und-erklaert-mathe-zur-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires Statistics and Declares Math to Be Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has found a new enemy - and it is neither China nor NATO nor his own party. It is... numbers. More precisely: the employment numbers. When the July 2025 report shows only 73,000 new jobs, the president does not reach for economic measures but for the phone: The statistics chief must go! Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is to leave because she dared to count reality correctly. \"Whacking the commissioner\" - dumping the commissioner - that is what Trump calls it. In the past, people shot the messenger, today they fire economists. Apparently, the president has finally recognized the true cause of the economic crisis: mathematics. If McEntarfer had simply counted 106,000 jobs, as expected - everything would have been perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Washington, rumors are already circulating that Trump will have the national statistics compiled by Kevin O\u2019Leary and the \"Apprentice\" jury in the future. Any number below 100,000 will be deleted, the unemployed will henceforth be called \"invisible employees,\" and anyone who has been without a job for more than six weeks will statistically be considered a \"tourist.\" Stock market experts warn of chaos, but Trump remains unimpressed: \"We have the best numbers. Nobody has better numbers. If they look bad, we fire them.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n