Many people were shocked by Donald Trump ’s decision last week to fire the nonpartisan Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because he didn’t like the July jobs report. But Trump has always disregarded statistics, or just plain facts, that contradict his overheated narrative of America’s treacherous decline under other presidents and its return to Greatness under his administrations. In the case of the jobs report, he asserted that “America is BOOMING” as a self-evident truth because this is his economy; BLS must have “rigged” last year’s jobs numbers to help Joe Biden, whose economy was obviously hellish.

We saw the same thing during the 2024 presidential campaign, when Trump constantly claimed America’s cities were facing an unprecedented violent-crime wave. As the Brennan Ce

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