Trump Was Right On Jobs Report: 5 Tweets Where President Predicted Labor Growth In February

The federal government releases a report about the state of jobs in the U.S. every month. But the one published Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was especially exciting to both economists and politicians because it would show how the job market fared in February, the first full month that President Donald Trump had been in office.

Overall, the jobs report offered good news to the U.S. economy. Employment increased by 235,000 jobs in February, about on par with the 238,000 jobs that were added in January. The unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage points, from 4.8 percent in January to 4.7 percent in February.

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The U.S. also saw an increase in the construction industry, which rose by 58,000 jobs — the most since March 2007. In January, the industry added 40,000 jobs. In addition, the manufacturing industry also saw a large bump, gaining 28,000 jobs, the greatest increase in three years.

“The economy is riding a wave of optimism in the wake of the election,” Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist of jobs website Glassdoor, told Bloomberg before the report was released.

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Unsurprisingly, Trump was happy about the news. He campaigned largely on the populist promise to create job growth in the U.S., vowing to be the “greatest president for jobs that God ever created,” he said last September.

“We’re going to have job growth like you’ve never seen. I’m very good for jobs,” he said. “In fact, I will be the greatest president for jobs that God ever created. That I can tell you.”

Trump’s goal was to add 25 million jobs over the next decade. That pans out to 2.5 million jobs a year, and 208,000 jobs a month. That puts him ahead of his own schedule.

Here are five tweets in which Trump touted his job-creating skills — and insulted his Democratic opponent from the presidential race last year in the process.