Someone needs to inform @realdonaldtrump that I ALREADY asked Jay Z whether black employment figures redeem Trump’s presidency. And Jay’s answer last night on the #VanJonesShow was POWERFUL !!! … Watch the VIDEO for yourself: https://t.co/7Sv3rHKkmW https://t.co/jbHpkKOM5o

CNN host Van Jones defended his guest Jay-Z after President Trump lashed out on Twitter that somebody should tell the hip-hop mogul that Trump reduced black unemployment to the “lowest rate ever recorded.”

​”Someone needs to inform @realdonaldtrump that I ALREADY asked Jay Z whether black employment figures redeem Trump’s presidency. And Jay’s answer last night on the #VanJonesShow was POWERFUL !!! … Watch the VIDEO for yourself​,” Jones wrote Sunday, a little more than an hour after Trump posted.

​The president blasted Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, after he criticized Trump’s calling Haiti, Africa and El Salvador “shithole countries” and questioned what he has done for African-Americans, despite the drop in the unemployment rate.

“Because it’s not about money at the end of the day,”​ ​the Brooklyn-born rapper​ ​said​ ​in the interview with Jones​ that aired Saturday. “Money is not — money doesn’t equate to happiness. It doesn’t. That’s missing the whole point. You treat people like human beings, then — that’s the main point.”

He also said “it’s disappointing and it’s hurtful” to hear the president​ referring ​to “shithole countries.”

“Because it’s looking down at a whole population of people, and it’s so misinformed, because these places have beautiful people and beautiful everything. This is the leader of the free world speaking like this,” he continued.

​​​In his Sunday tweet, the president admonished Jay-Z.​

​”Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!,” Trump posted on Twitter.​

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for African-Americans was 6.8 percent in December, the lowest since 1972, when the federal agency began crunching the numbers by race.

The rate has been in decline since falling from 16.4 percent in August 2011 to 7.8 percent in January 2017.

And while the rate has fallen, it still remains nearly double what the white unemployment rate has been historically over time.