This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the Unemployment Rate was 4.7%. This is the first release by the BLS of unemployment numbers under the Trump Administration.

The 4.7% rate represents a whopping 37.3% improvement in the unemployment rate compared to the 42% that Trump claimed was the “real” unemployment rate during the campaign.

“Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number’s probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent.”

The so-called President and his staff have also pointed to the fact that the economy added almost 300,000 jobs as evidence of a yuuuuuge turnaround in America’s fortunes since the muslim socialist usurper was pushed from office. While the economy has added jobs for the last consecutive 76 months, now, apparently the jobs are finally going to more deserving Trump supporters.

In addition, Administration insiders have pointed to the stock market as a significant indicator of an improving economy because it has reached new highs in the past several weeks. The White House has not explained how the almost constant improvement of the market in the previous 8 years was not an indicator of economic success before. Presumably it was because the previous President was black, a democrat or born in Kenya or something.

Administration officials are probably going to claim that this is the result of “draining the swamp” and putting “real people” in charge instead of wall-street insiders. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for example, hardly ever thinks about his many years at Goldman Sachs. Neither does Gary Cohen, former President of Goldman Sachs who Trump appointed to the position of Director of the National Economic Council. This is just simply ordinary folks Making America Great Again while continuing to enrich wall street. One imagines the many wall street insiders in the President’s cabinet and senior staff would explain it like this:

“It’s so much better now because we don’t even have to pretend to act ethically. I mean, just look at what the President is doing. It’s every man for himself. Just grab that money by the pussy!”

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