Donald Trump firing the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Commissioner is absolutely on brand.
When Donald doesn’t like data, he gets rid of the data and the person who reports it, like a dictator does.
The low job numbers were not what Donald wanted. So, no more numbers. Data science is stupid and the numbers are rigged.
Donald is not weak and neither are his jobs numbers.
Remember Covid?
Donald didn’t like the Covid data. The number of Americans that were dying of Covid made him look bad. So, Donald said America should stop testing for Covid.
In Donald’s mind, problem solved, no Covid data, means no Covid. He shouted about bleach, how the data was rigged, and how Covid was a hoax.
Remember Trump’s first Inauguration?
Donald didn’t like that his crowd size was smaller than President Obama’s inauguration crowd.
So, he said the numbers were wrong, a hoax, rigged, a media witch hunt, and the pictures were doctored.
Remember the 2020 election?
Donald said to stop counting votes, because if you stop counting votes he would win.
He said the election was rigged and the data was wrong.
Donald claimed he won, when in fact he didn’t win the 2020 election. He claimed the election was stolen.
We all witnessed what happened next…
We cannot “both sides” this shit.
This is not what a democracy does.
This is what a dictator does.
This is where we are.