Blue-collar workers f####d around when they voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they’re finding out.
Voters without college degrees backed Trump over then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 points, according to exit polling. Yet August’s jobs report showed that industries whose workers often do not possess college degrees have lost jobs, in part thanks to Trump’s nonsensical trade policy.
The jobs report showed that the mining industry—which Trump has touted he is saving—lost 6,000 jobs in August.
Meanwhile, the construction industry—hit hard by tariffs and the rising price of materials—lost 7,000 jobs. And truck transportation lost 900 jobs.
However, aside from the government—which took a massive hit thanks to now-former co-President Elon Musk’s destructive Department of Government Efficiency cuts—no industry has done worse than manufacturing.
In his inaugural address, Trump promised to restore the American manufacturing sector, declaring that, “America will be a manufacturing nation once again.”
Yet manufacturing lost a whopping 12,000 jobs in August. Altogether, the manufacturing industry has lost 78,000 jobs in 2025, a massive contraction.
Ultimately, the only industry doing okay right now is health care, which accounts for virtually all of the job growth over the last four months. But that’s about to take a hit, too, as the GOP’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” cuts billions from Medicaid that will cause millions to lose their coverage and leave rural hospitals and long-term health care facilities in trouble.
If you thought the Trump administration cared, however, well, you’d be wrong. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer went on Fox Business to deny that Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the economy.
“Tariffs are working,” she said, even though the data shows they clearly are not.
“Unemployment is still holding steady,” she added, even though unemployment is now the highest it’s been since 2021 and federal jobs data shows that there are now more job seekers than job openings. “Statistically, it’s nonexistent.” (Someone needs to tell this billionaire asshole that when you lose a job, or can’t find one, statistics are the last thing you worry about.)