Trump Shares Partial Jobs Data on Social Media Before Key Employment Report [View all]

Source: Barron's

Economics

Trump Shares Partial Jobs Data on Social Media Before Key Employment Report

By Matt Peterson and Megan Leonhardt
Updated Jan 09, 2026 11:51 am EST / Original Jan 09, 2026 10:46 am EST

Key Points
* A social media post by President Donald Trump on Thursday included jobs data matching figures released Friday by the BLS.
* The White House Council of Economic Advisers has early access to BLS jobs figures, which are market-sensitive.
* Trump previously posted about jobs numbers before their official release in June 2018, without providing specific figures.
President Donald Trump appeared to share data from a market-sensitive jobs report on Thursday, the day before its public release.

A post on Trump's Truth Social account gave a figure for jobs creation under his second term that matched jobs figures that weren't released until Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Trump's post Thursday appeared to be a photograph of a printout, which was labeled "Council of Economic Advisers." The post showed a bar chart indicating that 654,000 private sector jobs were created since January 2025, while 181,000 government jobs had been lost.

Those figures match the jobs numbers released by the BLS on Friday, including revisions.

{snip}

Read more: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-jobs-data-truth-social-posts-fb6fc987

---

This is some of the most closely held data because anyone with any functioning braincells knows that it moves markets. The efforts that are normally gone through to make sure it is kept secret are legendary.

And Trump just tweeted it out. Absolutely insane.

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T17:19:37.935Z

******
Mike Masnick
‪@mmasnick.bsky.social‬

This is some of the most closely held data because anyone with any functioning braincells knows that it moves markets. The efforts that are normally gone through to make sure it is kept secret are legendary.

And Trump just tweeted it out. Absolutely insane.

‪Bobby Kogan‬
‪@bbkogan.bsky.social‬
· 2h
First found by @bharatkumarmd.bsky.social on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren't released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.

Donald J. Trump O
@reaDonaldTrump 12h
Since January, the private sector accounts for all new jobs created
Federal government jobs are down 277,000

{snip the unformatted numbers}

ALT
12:19 PM · Jan 9, 2026
******

Reposted by We’re Going To Keep The Popehat
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social

This is…

A) …market-moving information. And, in fact, it appears there was action on Polymarket around the time of this post

B) …another attack on the (still reliable) work of the professionals at BLS.

C) …yet another example of him not believing the rules apply to him, and getting away w it

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T16:31:00.191Z

******
Kai Ryssdal
‪@kairyssdal.bsky.social‬

This is…

A) …market-moving information. And, in fact, it appears there was action on Polymarket around the time of this post

B) …another attack on the (still reliable) work of the professionals at BLS.

C) …yet another example of him not believing the rules apply to him, and getting away w it

‪We’re Going To Keep The Popehat‬
‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬
· 2h
Kai, could you educate us with a few sentences why?
11:31 AM · Jan 9, 2026
******

Amazeballs. But not surprising at all.

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T15:24:46.080Z

******
Kai Ryssdal
‪@kairyssdal.bsky.social‬

Amazeballs. But not surprising at all.

‪Bobby Kogan‬
‪@bbkogan.bsky.social‬
· 2h
First found by @bharatkumarmd.bsky.social on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren't released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.

Donald J. Trump O
@reaDonaldTrump 12h
Since January, the private sector accounts for all new jobs created
Federal government jobs are down 277,000

{snip the unformatted numbers}

ALT
10:24 AM · Jan 9, 2026
******

First found by @bharatkumarmd.bsky.social on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren’t released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.

— Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T15:20:13.331Z

******
Bobby Kogan
‪@bbkogan.bsky.social‬

Follow
First found by
@bharatkumarmd.bsky.social
on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren't released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.

Donald J. Trump O
@reaDonaldTrump 12h
Since January, the private sector accounts for all new jobs created
Federal government jobs are down 277,000

{snip the unformatted numbers}

ALT
10:20 AM · Jan 9, 2026
******