The Outrage Over Trump’s Market-Shaking Tweet
The president’s cryptic preview of May’s strong monthly jobs report broke yet another longstanding federal protocol.
On its face, the tweet was one of the most innocuous President Trump has ever sent—a plain-vanilla reminder early Friday morning that the monthly federal jobs report was coming out in an hour’s time.
“Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning,” the president wrote at 7:21 a.m. ET.
No exclamation points. No all-caps. No gratuitous insults, partisan jabs, or demands that his opponentsbe investigated.
For Trump, this was boring, even low-energy. Except
