Back in April, Donald Trump touted his aggressive tariff policy as a catalyst for the reshoring of manufacturing jobs. Eight months later, reshoring progress is nowhere to be seen.
The jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week found that while nonfarm payrolls increased by 119,000, there were 6,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, adding to the tally of 59,000 lost factory jobs since Trump’s April vows to ignite domestic manufacturing. The Labor Bureau’s data is consistent with the Institute for Supply Management November report, which indicated an eighth consecutive month of contracting manufacturing jobs.
“The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic…as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out,” economic commentator Joseph Politano noted in a LinkedIn post last week.
“Despite trump’s best efforts,” what kind of headline bullshit is that. He sucks at money because he’s a conman and grifter. He is doing great by stealing so fucking much tax payer money, that he doesn’t understand why his poll numbers are so low and everyone else isn’t happy he’s getting richer.
No, he doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
But the people who are in favor of him aren’t going to change and either don’t know he polls poorly, or will say it’s made up by his enemies
Yeah. This is his best effort. It’s shit. But it’s his best.
It still makes him sound like a victim of circumstances though. Headlines are the worst these days.
“Because of Trump’s best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs” would certainly be a more accurate headline.