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Trump's job market was absolute sh-t in 2025



The jobs market in 2025 was a bust, with growth virtually stagnant thanks to
President Donald Trump's idiotic tariff policies, which left companies in a
state of paralysis.

In December, employers added a meager 50,000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics announced on Friday, coming in below economists' expectations of
70,000 jobs.

Worse, however, is that the BLS revised the October and November reports down
by a total of 76,000 jobs—negating Decembers' gains and capping off what was a
terrible 2025 for the labor market.




 



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“The hiring that we’re seeing is very, very slow,” William Lee, chief
economist at the Milken Institute, said in an interview on CNN. "We're barely
breaking even in terms of offsetting the new entrances into the labor force, so
the unemployment rate is showing signs of actually drifting up because the pace
of hiring is so low."

Ultimately, the economy added an average of just 49,000 jobs per month in
2025, according to BLS data. That's far lower than the average of 168,000 jobs
created per month in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden's presidency.

And almost all of 2025’s gains came before April, when Trump announced his
so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs that raised taxes on imports from nearly
every country on earth.

Heather Long, the chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, said in a
post on X that 2025’s job gains were the worst since 2003 for any year that
didn’t feature a recession.

“And nearly 85% of the job gains happened by April. There was little hiring
the rest of the year,” Long wrote.

The year also ended with a 4.4% unemployment rate, among the highest it's been
since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.




 



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Even more concerning is that nearly 1 million people in the United States had
to take on part-time work in 2025 because they couldn't find adequate full-time
employment.

"These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working
part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find
full-time jobs," the BLS report said.

Ironically, aside from government jobs—which Trump cruelly slashed with Elon
Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency—one of the industries that
fared the worst in 2025 was manufacturing. The manufacturing industry lost jobs
on net in 2025, shedding 75,000 employees.

Trump’s tariffs were supposed to bring more blue-collar manufacturing jobs to
the United States. But the data reveals that the tariffs did nothing of the
sort. Instead, they kept inflation high and paralyzed the job market, making
the economy feel even worse for the very people who helped put him back in
office.

"The labor market story of 2025 is that, since liberation day, 121% of all
new private sector jobs have been in health care. During that same period
161,000 blue-collar jobs have been lost,” Mike Konczal, senior director of
policy and research at the Economic Security Institute, wrote in a post on X.
“Whatever tariffs were meant to do for workers hasn't happened.”

It’s no wonder Americans are unhappy with the economy and giving Trump
terrible marks for how he’s shepherded it.



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