Donald Trump posted some of December’s US jobs figures hours before the release of the economic report, giving traders an early glimpse of data that carries enormous sway in global capital markets.
The president posted a graphic on his Truth Social platform just before 8.30pm New York time on Thursday evening, which showed an increase of 654,000 private-sector jobs since January 2025.
The charts in the slides matched figures that were not publicly available until 8.30am on Friday and gave investors details of how many jobs the world’s biggest economy added from October to December.<