The 2025 jobs numbers are in.
They aren't just bad.
They're calamitous.
And they keep getting worse.
2025 was the worst year for job creation in a non-recession year since 2003
The headline number is bad enough.
The U.S. economy created an average of just 49,000 jobs per month during 2025.
But those job gains weren't driven by the genius of Trump
They were driven entirely by the needs of our aging population.
America's "care economy" (i.e. the healthcare and social assistance sectors) added more than 59,000 jobs per month in 2025.
Which means that, for the first time since 2020 (and just the second time since 2010), job creation outside of the healthcare sector showed a year-over-year decline.
What's orange and caused the rest of the economy to lose 129,000 jobs in 2025?
Many sectors began their decline before Trump's "Liberation Day" announcement in April.
But that day marked a clear turning point.
Small business hiring ground to a halt.
Both white-collar and blue-collar employment headed into a tailspin.
By the end of the year, the Trump jobs crisis was so bad, even the job gains in the healthcare and social assistance sectors couldn't offset the losses elsewhere.
Average total job growth for the last three months of 2025 registered a decline.
Beyond the care economy, virtually no sector was insulated from the great jobs collapse of 2025
According to the leading outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers surged 58% in 2025 to 1.2 million, a level comparable with the 2008-09 financial crisis, and surpassed only by the Trump-Covid disaster year of 2020.
Meanwhile, total US blue collar employment has plunged by more than 100,000 jobs since early 2025, with tariff policies that raised the costs of manufacturing inputs accelerating the layoffs and immigration raids acting like a wrecking ball to the construction sector.
As he did in 2019, even before the Covid crash, Trump has already plunged U.S. manufacturing into a needless recession, with U.S. manufacturing activity contracting for a tenth straight month in December and projections showing continuing weakness heading into 2026.
Trump is failing us on every level
Once again, Trump's election promises have been revealed as a massive con job on US voters.
People voted for Trump believing he would:
- End U.S. involvement in foreign wars
- Drain the swamp and fight corruption
- Release the Epstein Files
- Lower grocery prices
- Fix healthcare
- Create new jobs
Instead, Trump has plunged America into crisis after crisis.
He's put America on a war footing both at home and abroad.
He's made the rich richer, the tech bros happier, and the rest of us poorer and sicker.
He's increased food insecurity and job insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases.
And he's done it all while embracing a level of corruption and family enrichment that puts the dictators of the developing world to shame.
Many fear the worst is yet to come
We're still less than one year into Trump's second reign of terror.
Trump's failed policies have turned an economy that was the "envy of the world" into one that's on life support.
2026 may be the year the AI bubble bursts.
Or it may be the year the AI "jobpocalypse" truly takes hold.
Either way, there are plenty of reasons to fear 2026 will be even worse than 2025.
Trump's physical and mental disintegration may accelerate.
But his psychopathic behavior will not improve.
Voters know that Trump is lazy, reckless, incompetent, and corrupt.
They know he lies.
They know he's a creep.
Despite that — and for all the chaos and danger he's unleashed — there's still one issue where his success will cause many to forgive him, but where his failure will lead voters to reject the GOP at the ballot box.
It's still the economy.
And Trump's still stupid.
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