Daily Report

At a June 5, 2026 rally in Wisconsin, Trump claimed African American unemployment is "doing better than it's ever done" — a stat he admitted on stage he couldn't source, saying "I don't know where the hell that stat came from, but I'll take it." CNN's fact-check confirmed the claim is false. The Black unemployment rate stood at 6.6% in May 2026, higher than the 6.2% rate Trump inherited in January 2025, and far above the actual record low of 4.8% set under President Biden in April 2023. This is particularly troubling because it spreads economic misinformation to a national audience, targets a specific demographic with false data, and was made by a sitting president who openly acknowledged he had no basis for the claim.