US President Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that recent US jobs numbers were manipulated to portray him and the Republican Party unfavorably. He claimed that last week's jobs report, as well as the employment data prior to the 2024 Presidential Election, were rigged, citing massive and record-setting revisions that he alleges favored the Democratic Party. Trump made these allegations public through various statements on social media platform Truth Social and during an interview on CNBC, where he maintained that labor statistics were manipulated despite pushback from host Joe Kernen. Trump specifically pointed to downward revisions made to jobs data before the election as evidence of this alleged rigging.