Trump Slams Fired BLS Chief Over Historic Job Data Miscalculations

President Donald Trump is not holding back after firing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of orchestrating one of the worst manipulations of economic data in modern history.

In a scathing Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump called the job data revisions under McEntarfer's leadership the “biggest miscalculations in over 50 years.”

“She did it again, with another massive ‘correction,’ and got FIRED!” Trump wrote. “She had the biggest miscalculations in over 50 years. A SCAM!”

This comes on the heels of yet another major downward revision in U.S. job numbers. The July BLS report revealed that only 74,000 jobs were created, far below the 110,000 expected—and worse, May and June numbers were revised down by a combined 258,000 jobs. In fact, May’s total was slashed to just 19,000, and June dropped to a mere 14,000, raising red flags across the economic community.

Trump alleged that McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, deliberately inflated job growth ahead of the presidential election to paint a rosier picture of the economy under Kamala Harris’s then-campaign.

“She lifted the numbers for jobs to an all-time high… then readjusted the numbers downward, calling it a mistake of almost one million jobs.”

These accusations are not without precedent. Trump previously raised concerns about politically motivated distortions in federal data and promised transparency reforms across economic agencies. This latest debacle appears to vindicate those warnings.

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett backed Trump’s move to fire McEntarfer, citing a clear “partisan pattern” in the agency’s reporting.

And the numbers don’t lie:

• The BLS reported inflated jobs figures in the months leading up to the election, only to correct them after the fact, when it no longer mattered politically.

• Over 900,000 jobs were retroactively erased from prior reports in just the last six months.

• Confidence in federal labor data has declined sharply, especially among small business owners and investors who rely on accurate figures.

This isn’t just about bad math it’s about trust in the system. If unelected bureaucrats can manipulate key economic data to serve political ends, the consequences for markets, policy, and public confidence are massive.

The job market is one of the biggest drivers of presidential approval, and inflating those numbers in an election year isn’t just dishonest it’s a form of election interference.

President Trump’s decision to fire McEntarfer sends a strong message we won’t tolerate cooked numbers, political games, or bureaucratic sabotage.

Expect tighter oversight, new leadership at BLS, and a renewed push for data transparency in a second Trump term.

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