Even Trump says he doesn't know 'where the hell' his own false claim about Black unemployment came from

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Source: CNN

Even Trump says he doesn’t know ‘where the hell’ his own false claim about Black unemployment came from

2 hr ago
PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2026, 6:43 PM ET
By Daniel Dale

President Donald Trump uses a lot of fictional statistics. He usually deploys them with a breezy confidence.

At an event in Wisconsin on Friday, though, he made a statistical claim that sounded so clearly dubious that he wondered aloud where it had come from.

“And we’ve also had huge drops in — and I’ll tell you, this is something that’s amazing: African American unemployment is now doing better than it’s ever done. And I don’t know where that stat came from, but I’ll take it,” he said. “I don’t know where the hell that stat come — but we’ll take it.”

The mystery “stat” isn’t true.

The most recent unemployment rate for Black or African Americans was 6.6% in May, ...

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