After a disappointing jobs report, the U.S. president, in a bold and decisive move, fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the bureau of Labor statistics.
His reasoning was simple: The downturn in the nation’seconomy couldn’t possibly be due to his recent punitive trade policies, so it must have been caused by the commissioner manipulating the numbers.
In related news, it rained in our nation’s capital, and the president got wet. In a bold and decisive move, he fired the weatherman.
In other news, an apple fell from a tree. Due to gravity, it hit the president on the head. In a bold and decisive move, he fired Sir Isaac Newton.