The latest jobs report is coming out on Friday, but President Donald Trump can’t promise that the numbers will be credible.
The president evaded a question over the credibility of the upcoming jobs report following the messy aftermath of the July release, when he fired then-Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer because he was unhappy with the numbers.
During a dinner with bigshot business leaders at the White House on Thursday, Trump was asked whether he would commit to saying that the data in the Friday jobs report would be credible.
“We’re gonna have to see what the number— I don’t know, they come out tomorrow,” he began.
Trump proceeded to suggest that “the real numbers” will come out “in a year from now,” when the tech companies run by the executives seated in front of