Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson Friday responded to a bleak new jobs report and how he expected President Donald Trump to react to the news.
The Lincoln Project co-founder warned in his Substack that Trump and his administration would attempt to spin the report, which showed the worst year for job gains outside of recession since 2003.
"If you like your economic data served with a side of pure fiction, this is your week," Wilson wrote. "The administration is touting numbers that look like they were generated by a random number generator in a MAGA hat. They claim the 'Big Beautiful Bill' is fixing everything, but the reality is a landscape of hidden tariff taxes and a debt clock that’s spinning so fast it’s about to catch fire."
In December, the U.S. economy added 50,000 jobs, a slight improvement over a drop in October and a slight rebound in November. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent after creeping upward for months.
Despite the low job climb and economic uncertainty, Trump has also claimed that the price of eggs has dropped — something that speaks to his MAGA voters. Yet, that won't hide some of the fundamental problems plaguing the economy, Wilson explained.
"Lying about the numbers doesn’t lower egg prices or fix the supply chain, but it does keep the base cheering," Wilson wrote. "We’re living in a Potemkin economy where the stock market is propped up by deregulation fever dreams while the country's foundational health is being hollowed out. It’s a fantasy world where 'winning' is defined as whatever the President said in his last interview with Fox."
