Donald Trump’s latest attempt to clean up the mess he created after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he was furious over the latest poor jobs report was laughed off by a former member of his first administration.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Mika Brzezinski, former Trump White House communication official Anthony Scaramucci couldn’t contain himself after watching the president fawning over charts created by the Heritage Foundation and presented to him by economist Stephen Moore.

After watching Trump calling a purported increase in household income “…an incredible number. It just came out, so that’s a giant thing,” the MSNBC host asked her guest, “Anthony, the continued trashing of the former head of BLS and also this new number, what do you make of it?”

The laughing Scaramucci replied, “I mean, listen, I mean, it’s a cliche but it’s: there’s lies and there are damn lies and then there are statistics. You can take the statistics and cut the any which way that you want.”

Joking about Trump’s redecoration of the Oval Office to look more like Mar-a-Lago he pointed out, “It’s hard to see the charts with all the gold leaf, Mika. I mean, it’s like shining so brightly behind them but it’s a mixed bag, the economy is a mixed bag. You can go through the economy and pick out things that are doing okay, and you can see the underlying surface cracks in the economy and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that there’s a slowdown coming.”

Repeating, “It’s a mixed bag,” again he concluded, “I think what the president’s doing there is a little bit ridiculous.”

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