Former President Donald Trump issued a warning about the direction of the U.S. economy after Friday’s job creation numbers came in far below expectations and as more Americans were bumped onto unemployment rolls.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on May 3 that the U.S. economy added 175,000 new jobs last month. That’s down from 315,000 in March and substantially lower than the 243,000 positions that market analysts were expecting.
“The job numbers just came out and they’re horrible,” President Trump told reporters in New York shortly after the data dropped. “These people are destroying our country and here’s another sign of it.”…
