{"id":440676,"date":"2026-01-31T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440676\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:48:14","slug":"trump-shill-blames-economic-malaise-on-dormant-mystery-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440676\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shill blames economic malaise on dormant mystery &#8216;machines&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Economic Council Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/13\/2353649\/-No-jobs-report-no-worries-Trump-team-will-concoct-something\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Hassett<\/a> is trying to convince Americans that the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/1\/29\/2366119\/-Key-promise-of-Trump-s-tariffs-goes-up-in-smoke\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bleak trade deficit report<\/a> released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis isn\u2019t a big deal, telling CNBC that \u201cpeople haven\u2019t turned the machines on yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs have failed to boost exports of American-made goods\u2014in fact, the opposite has happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while Americans wait for these magical machines to be turned on, it looks like the United States will continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/12\/1\/2356338\/-Trump-tariffs-gut-manufacturing-as-jobs-shrink-for-9-months-straight\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bleed manufacturing jobs<\/a> thanks to Trump\u2019s idiotic tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>x<\/p>\n<p>HASSETT: We have a list of the groundbreakings. It&#8217;s really quite striking<\/p>\n<p>FABER: Manufacturing job numbers are actually down<\/p>\n<p>HASSETT: That&#8217;s in part because people haven&#8217;t turned the machines on yet <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mdnmpwsuti2q?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026-01-30T15:31:46.261Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hassett tried to boast about Eli Lilly\u2019s much-touted \u201conshoring\u201d investment in Virginia, pointing to it as a sign of major progress. But that project <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.lilly.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/lilly-announces-plans-build-5-billion-manufacturing-facility\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">amounts to nothing more<\/a> than a promise of 650 high-paying permanent jobs and up to 1,800 temporary construction jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a far cry from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-factory-headcount-falling-despite-trumps-promised-manufacturing-boom-2026-01-09\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">70,000 manufacturing jobs<\/a> Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/6\/6\/2326306\/-Hey-Trump-your-tariffs-are-still-killing-manufacturing-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have lost<\/a> since April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is trying to convince Americans that the recent\u00a0bleak trade deficit report released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-440676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}