'That's bananas!': GOP analyst slams Trump's 'flat-earther' BLS pick as a 'propagandist'

A conservative analyst on Tuesday slammed President Donald Trump's decision to consider a loyalist for the vacant Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner post.

Journalist S.E. Cupp discussed Trump's decision to consider installing E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation, to the top BLS post on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip."

"What I think is disqualifying is when he says openly, publicly, and in an interview, that we need to get someone political into this apolitical job," Cupp said.

"This is like putting a flat-earther in charge of the maps," she continued. "The maps are the maps. The data is the data. They didn't like the data, so they'll get someone in who will say the data is better than what the data is. That's bananas."

Last week, Trump fired former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after she released a jobs report that showed there was almost no job growth during Trump's first quarter as president.

McEntarfer is also not the only economic advisor to come under fire. Trump has waged a public war against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell since the beginning of his administration because of Powell's reluctance to lower interest rates.

Powell has claimed Trump's tariff policy has injected new uncertainty into the market, thereby requiring him to take a cautious approach to lowering rates.

"This will lead to other countries not trusting us and not investing in our country, because we are installing propagandists!" Cupp added.

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