When asked about President Donald Trump's reaction to the stellar jobs report on Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer had this to say:



"I talked to the president prior to this [briefing], and he said to quote him for this, '[The jobs reports] may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now.'"



In the first full month of President Trump's term, nonfarm payrolls increased by 235,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected the economy to add 190,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to tick down to 4.7 percent.