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‘Keep tweeting through it buddy’: WH roundly mocked for some serious jobs report spin

October 8, 2021 | | Print Article

White House Chief of Staff, Ronald Klain, was roundly mocked for attempting to spin a depressing jobs report into a success story.

Klain tweeted to a fiercely responsive audience, that “the unemployment rate is now down to 4.8% — in just eight months. We’ve created 2x more jobs under @POTUS in his first nine months than any administration in history.”

His tweet was posted at 9:38 am, approximately 20 minutes after ABC News released its analysis that contradicted Klain’s spin and flat-out called the report “dismal.”

As Klain posted his message, ABC News had already reported the less than successful numbers, noting the U.S. hiring rate fell very far below expectations. Experts had hoped 500,000 jobs could be added, but the final tally was a mere 194,000, placing the Biden administration coming up short at 306,000 jobs.

ABC did add a bit of spin of its own, chalking up the low employment to the Delta variant while President Biden was busy conducting damage control.

“We’re making consistent, steady progress,” Biden said in response to the report. “And thanks to bipartisan agreements, we’re making progress on funding the government and raising the debt limit, so people continue to get their social security checks, the military continues to get paid, and so much more.”

The president also seized the opportunity to push his “Build Back Better” agenda.

“We risk losing our edge as a nation if we don’t move our infrastructure,” Biden said. “We have to regain the momentum we lost.”

But no amount of spin could help the Biden administration when CNBC added insult to injury and “Squawk Box” show hosts openly gasped upon reading the report. “Wow” and “whoa” were all they could muster before they could wrap their brains around the findings.

With all that being said, it’s not hard to see why Klain’s tweet garnered so much mockery.

Some of the notable replies to Klain’s positive spin on the ‘dismal’ September jobs report were found on Twitter, with many being heavily critical of the White House’s Chief of Staff. The conversation flowed like this:

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