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The MeidasTouch Podcast

AFGE President Everett Kelley Responds to Trump Job Loss Numbers

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

News, Politics

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News panicking on live tv over the horrible job report that was just released and Meiselas speaks with AFGE President Everett Kelley about what his union is seeing regarding Trump’s destruction of jobs. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Fox News was in a complete and utter panic mode based on the job numbers that came out on Friday,

0:07.0

well below expectations. Also a downward revision from the May and June months of about

0:14.0

258,000 less jobs than the government initially reported. This is like the worst jobs report during some of the worst

0:22.3

days of COVID. And if you want to look for a jobs report that was, you know, the next worst

0:27.8

right around then. You're talking about right around the recession like 2009, 2010 kind of that

0:35.7

period, getting out of that recession. But, you know, Fox is trying to figure out how do they grapple with this because they've

0:41.7

been lying to their viewers and saying, oh, everything's great.

0:44.7

The tariffs aren't impacting anything.

0:46.4

The doge cuts aren't impacting anything that we've been saying.

0:50.1

Follow the data.

0:51.2

Like, it's not good out there in the job market as the Trump regime continued

0:57.3

to report, oh, 147,000 jobs created. I'm like, they're just making that number up. Wait till you see

1:03.1

the revisions. And sure enough, that's what we saw. So Fox brings on Lori Chavez-Durremer, the anti-Labor

1:09.6

secretary, although she calls herself the labor secretary,

1:12.4

and she's there and says, look, I know the numbers are bad, but at least we're put in America

1:16.9

first, right? This is America first. Here, watch this. The president has done a wonderful job in

1:22.6

these trade deals. We're seeing more and more countries come to the table, and this is another

1:26.9

leg of the stool that can be assisting the American worker in the American business.

1:31.1

And he's choosing not to do so.

1:33.1

We need those interest rates down so that our businesses can borrow more money at a cheaper rate and invest in their companies, invest in the American economy, and grow this economy even better.

1:42.6

We've seen positive job growth. We have seen consumer

1:46.0

confidence go up. We've seen unemployment hold steady. While we could have seen better jobs numbers

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