Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and to attack the messenger — all of which can hurt the president’s efforts to convince the world that America is getting stronger.

Days after firing the official responsible for compiling the nation’s jobs statistics, President Donald Trump again claimed without evidence that last week’s jobs report, which showed lackluster July employment growth and large downward revisions for hiring in May and June,

President Donald Trump on Monday said July's jobs report was "rigged" to favor Democrats in a post on Truth Social. Trump fired Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer last week after the July jobs report,

Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War.

Albert Pike was the only Confederate leader memorialized with an outdoor statue in Washington until it was toppled in the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, which sparked a nationwide reckoning with racism and calls for the removal of monuments to the Confederacy.