Even With Terrible Jobs Report Trump's Cult Claims Economy Is Booming
Forbes just reported on the latest jobs report and it's not good:
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics job market report for December, the last one for 2025, mostly shows a continuation of what we saw in earlier months: the labor market continues to create modest numbers of jobs, mostly in just a few key sectors. But overall, the job market is just limping along, finishing out 2025 with the same sluggishness we saw all year."
To Trumpers, "limping and sluggish" means we are in a boom!
Where's the Boom!??!!
Who are you going to believe, the Cult of Trump, or your lying eyes?
Trump's sycophantic economic advisor Kevin Hassett gaslighted CNBC
HASSETT: And so with numbers like that and GDP and jobs here, which are a little bit lower than you'd normally have in a boom, it's something of a puzzle for markets, I would guess, but the puzzle is resolved very easily if you look at the productivity numbers.
So what's happening is productivity's through the roof.
It's running almost at 5% annual rate.
And with productivity like that, something we haven't seen since the 90s, then you got a heck of a lot of economic growth, and it doesn't necessarily have to mean a whole huge amount of job creation.
And I think that's the way I read the economy right now.