By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades. (Published April)
Bonus for Trump: distract from Epstein files.
We can’t just resist his policies. This administration has got to GO!!!!!!!!!!
He doesn't care. Reality is what he deems it to be, evidence be damned.
It’s all on purpose. They simply don’t want to know (or us, either) what a shambolic disaster their policies are.
You have him confused with someone who cares. . .
Senior staff at the Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division must be spending an uncomfortable weekend finalizing Tuesday’s release of the latest U.S. trade statistics.
Trump wants us all to be blind, deaf and dumb. This is a government in rapid decline.
It's ok, they just make up the numbers. Remember COVID?
I never realized how OP the office of the president is. All these powers should be split up into separate offices, and also be nerfed.
That’s his idea. He wants to destroy government and be a dictator. He doesn’t care as long as he stays out of jail. He knows he just has to open his mouth and the media will broadcast it
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America is Russia now.
Data, and through data - the facts, are the enemy of the fascist dictator.
Well, except data on YOU. That will only increased dramatically under this administration.
YUP. Truth is whatever they say it is.
The constitution is rolling in its grave right now. The first amendment was NOT created so that people could lie in order to acquire or retain power. It was created so that citizens could have access to the truth in order to make an informed decision. #DemocracyDiesInDarkness
Yup!
Glad you agree. Some days it feels like no one understands what democracy is. Or freedom even. They want the freedom to hate whomever they want but won't grant others the freedom to love whomever they want. or the freedom to choose. Ugh. Thanks for listening.
I absolutely understand. The only people who don't are the MAGA people. Even Republicans know, they just CHOOSE to spit at it. But don't you worry, there's millions upon millions of us who know exactly what it is, and why we have to fight for it. I'm with YOU. ;-)
Trump, is simply doing, what Trump does best...lying his ass off! You're FIRED! Don't tell anyone the TRUTH! If numbers are not favorable to my policies, then.... You're FIRED! MAGA says, we only want Trump numbers, not REAL numbers! 😱
Trust the lines of data? Nope, not anymore. Trust the mouth of Trump? Sounds about right.
How do you know Trump is lying? His mouth is moving. NOTHING, but NOTHING can be trusted from this government. Now all that's left is to remove them from Office as fast as we can & begin the decades work of restoration of democracy.
wow what idiots discovered this distraction by GOP
Data? What data? We don’t need no stinking data! We’re just making up shit as we go along! We’ll tell the public our “alternative facts” and base our policies on whatever wild hair we have up our ass when we wake up in the morning. And, by afternoon, it could change! Data? Hah!
Precisely as intended. We are truly living 1984.
Yes. Ministry of Truth will be created to make sure we all know the “truth”.
Malignant narcissism doesn’t begin to capture the depths of his mental derangement.
Good to bring a focus on measurement … the weakness of oceanographic data was a stark reminder as everyone in the middle and easter Pacific waited for this week’s wave.
He doesn't care if the policies work, if they wreck the economy, or even if they kill. As long as they are *his* policies. All he cares about is being right. I wonder how much destruction he'll do before Republicans realize handing over their power makes them accomplices.
When we get to the other side of this mess we have to hold the Republicans in Congress accountable for the damage they have done to our country.
The one predictable w/ Trumposhenko (look at the History) is that he will fail. Every endeavor of his has ended in bankruptcy or in a losing court case. We are headed for major calamity. It kinda doesn't matter if Trumposhenko tries to juggle numbers so he looks good. The numbers WILL become real.
An attempt to retain power by pretending that nothing bad is happening,eliminating accountability👍
And WHY TF is he angry when his authorized DOGE fired thousands??
This goes along with never asking questions you don't want answers to. Don't collect statistics that show your policies fail
The US is simply returning to its mean as a gilded-bumpkin mediocrity. Sort of like water finding its level but with 300 million people in tow.
That’s the point.
Trump admin:
DJT doesn't want any data that proves is is destroying the American Economy and America the country.
Don’t forget 🍊 man’s congressional, et al enablers.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of these things so why would he need any data. The US is governed solely by the whims of a mentally impaired asshole. There are no policies
He tried to do it with covid number info. If you don't report the numbers/data it never happened. Don't report deaths by drug abuse- no one died. Don't report gun violence no one was shot...
Today's firing of the number's gal tells us we are here. Autocracy. Under Trump, a wannabe autocrat, there is NO DATA other than the data THEY create. Today's action is proof positive Trump is cooking the books! If you dare expose TRUTH that doesn't comport with his lies, you are TOAST.
RIP NSDUH 😭
Republicans dont give one damn about legalities or The Truth.
Drug overdoses, diseases/allergic reactions, air/water quality will plummet, mothers/babies will die in childbirth, or birth defects? Food-Bourne illnesses? Etc. This all so he can avoid the obvious destruction his policies will exact on this country without data to prove his incompetency.
All because he lost the 2020 election!🤬
If it doesn’t exist, he can’t be blamed when it goes downhill.
Seven months…SEVEN MONTHS!! I have to ask was our democracy that strong to begin with if it took seven months for this idiot to destroy it in such a short period of time?! There are valuable lessons here…for the sake of the future, I hope we are learning.
Destroying Data = more LIES, < accountability, > crime. What did you morons expect when you elect a FELON ❓
Trump’s sharpie can tell US how well his policies are working and how hurricanes won’t touch US.
Why is it a surprise that antiempirical people construct an antiempirical system? This was always the end result of the incentives in conservatism.
Well this way the convicted felon can lie every time he opens his filthy mouth and there won't be FACTS..impeach this traitor
Well, the people of the US wanted an idiot to rule them, and they got it
I feel like we’re headed to becoming a third world country.
Private companies must step up, citizens must step up. This is like Covid; we must operate outside his dysfunction until we can get rid of his regime. And we must strike, withhold purchasing and shut it down at least once per month. We cannot fund the oligarchs and do this work too.
Trump can’t handle the truth.
Because the data is what I say it is!!!😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
