Donald Trump: The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

'And you deserve prison, but you won't get time'

Donald Trump is never beating the cowardly diva allegations (among others).

After a dismal jobs report at the start of the month, Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and nominated E.J. Antoni, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, to replace her. Antoni has defended Trump’s economic policies, including the tariffs, which are famously what got us into the situation highlighted by the jobs report — namely, a slowing economy with a steep decrease in hiring and a significant negative revision to May and June's hiring numbers.

And today, Antoni said we should do away with the jobs report entirely, citing ‘accuracy concerns.’ After the report came out, Trump baselessly claimed it was biased — turns out he just can’t handle the consequences of playing power games with the economy.

He also apparently can’t handle photos of anyone but himself on the walls — over the weekend, Trump moved the official portrait of Barack Obama from the Entry Hall to a staircase that isn’t visible for visitors. This isn’t the first time Trump has moved Obama’s portrait — it was originally near the Grand Staircase in the White House, which is where the portrait of the last president generally lives (Biden’s portrait isn’t completed yet), but Trump replaced it with a photo of himself at his assassination attempt. Now, Obama’s portrait has been hidden away from visitors’ eyes entirely.

Portraits of George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush were also moved, reportedly to the same staircase. White House protocol and precedent say that portraits of the most recent American presidents should be hung prominently in the entrance of the White House for visitors to see — obviously Trump values his personal rivalries more than protocol.

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