Mentally Collapsing Trump Descends Into Gibberish As He Tries To Defend Firing Labor Official

The crushing weight of his failing presidency appears to have caused Trump to spout piles of gibberish as he tried to explain why he fired a Labor Department official after a weak jobs report.

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After Trump uncorked a Truth Social post where he tried to defend the firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because she was according to him, was in on a Biden conspiracy to ‘rig’ the jobs numbers, the ptesident took questions from reporters before leaving for his New Jersey golf club days after returning from his golf club in Scotland.

Trump’s answers put his apparent mental deterioration on full display.

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Trump said:

 I think her numbers were wrong, just like I thought her numbers were wrong before the election, days before the election, she came out with these beautiful numbers for Kamala, I guess Biden slash Kamala, and she came out with these beautiful numbers trying to get somebody else elected.

Then right after the election, I think on the 15th, November 15th, she had an eight or 900,000. Massive reduction since she made a mistake.

Trump was later asked why anyone should trust the jobs numbers, and then he really went off:

 You're right. No, you're right. Why should anybody trust numbers? You go back to election, eletvction day. Look what happened two or three days before with massive, wonderful job numbers trying to get him elected or her elected, trying to get whoever the hell was running because you go back and they came out with numbers that were very favorable toKamala, okay. To trying to get him elected. Trying to get her elected, and then on the 15th of November, or thereabouts, they had an eight or 900,000 overstatement reduction right after the election. It didn't work. Because you know who won? John, I won. You f*cked with the numbers for a long time.

But today's we're doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony just like they were before the election, and there were other times. So you know what I did? I fired her. Right? And you know what? I did the right thing. If any government official going forward is presenting data or information you don't like.

I've always had a problem with these numbers. You know, I was thinking about it this morning before the numbers that came out. I said, who is the person that does these numbers? And then they gave me stats about before the election, I had a similar problem. I mean, she gave out numbers that were so good for the Democrats, it was like unbelievable.

And then right after the election, she corrected those numbers with I think almost 900,000 corrections. I think nobody had ever seen anything like it. Well, today she did the same thing with the 253,000, whatever the number was. Uh, no, no. We need people that we can trust. I mean, your question, your question is a very good one, right?

We need people we can trust.

When Trump states that he wants people he can trust, he means people who make up numbers that he agrees with.

Listening to the gibberish and broken thinking doesn’t deliver as much impact as reading the transcript of Trump’s words. Trump thinks that statistics that he disagrees with are a conspiracy against him carried out by Joe Biden.

The reality is that the initial jobs numbers are estimates based on the available data. When numbers are revised, those numbers are based on the final data.

We are watching the impact of the decisionmaking of a president in decline.

Donald Trump’s behavior is fodder for comedians, but it is also doing severe damage to the country.

What do you think about Trump’s answer about the jobs numbers? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

The government at Trump’s direction has stopped collecting inflation data, and what the nation is settling for is an estimate.