For all the media brouhaha about how the jobs market under Trump was going down the toilet, new government data — AGAIN — blew the fear-mongering to smithereens.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics finally released its report on September jobs growth following the Democrat-led shutdown in Congress, and found that a whopping 119,000 jobs were added against economists’ expectations of just a 50,000 increase. The unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point to 4.4 percent.
But as Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni contextualized in a November 20 X post, “Labor force participation improved for 2nd month in a row in Sep as 470k more people piled into the labor market M/M, w/ 251k getting jobs and 219k still looking for work; this is why the unemployment rate rose even as more people got jobs and the employment level increased.”
To sum up the results in a nutshell, CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman, who had spent Trump’s first year of his second term lambasting his economic policies, was forced to admit that “[T]his report really bolsters the case of the hawks on the FOMC who have said they do not see serious deterioration in the labor market... A robust report.”
Even ABC News conceded November 20 that the latest numbers mean the jobs market is “defying [the supposed] hiring slowdown.” ABC News correspondent Alexis Christoforous also noted that “Heading into that historic government shutdown, the job market was healthier than we thought.” Oh, so you mean all the anti-Trump media blather to the contrary was bunk?
Looking at different stories from the leftist media trying to convince everyone that we were headed for a jobs market should make every consumer give the side eye to the doom mongers.
Axios proclaimed in August that the “Job market gloom hasn't been this bad since the Great Recession.” As recently as October, Fortune magazine was drumming up economic rage bait: “This is the worst the jobs market has looked (outside of a recession) in 50 years, says Goldman Sachs, meaning bullish GDP estimates are too optimistic.” MarketWatch also gloomed in September, “This chart shows the U.S. labor market is running on fumes. Why that’s a risk for the stock market.” In May, anti-Trump publication Forbes magazine published a how-to-cope piece should the jobs market go into free fall: “Here’s How To Handle A Recession If The Job Market Were To Plummet.”
.@MariaBartiromo: "To me, this looks like a very strong report."@StephenMoore: "I agree... We're seeing huge investment numbers... we have great consumer spending numbers... I am very happy about this report, and I think investors should be, too." pic.twitter.com/2M1qJ2EQTL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 20, 2025
It will be humorous to see how many outlets do the backstroke on the scare-porn they peddled over the year and how many will double down and insist that Trump is somehow steering the U.S. into an iceberg.
