The American economy grew by 2 percent during the first three months of 2026, hardly the picture of collapse that critics of the Trump administration keep promising is just around the corner. The country has not tanked under Donald Trump, not even with tariffs in place. Trump has been accused of putting black women out of work by cutting positions in the federal government, and it is true that federal cuts have hit black women disproportionately since they have historically been overrepresented in the federal workforce. But the federal government is not, and was never meant to be, a jobs program for any single demographic, and many of the positions eliminated were not economically viable in the first place.
Despite this favorable record, The Washington Post published a feature on Black America to tarnish Trump’s image. Its June 28 profile of four black women in Little Rock, who have nine degrees between them and not a steady paycheck in sight, was designed to land as a damning verdict on Trump’s America. The readers were meant to feel guilt or rage or, at minimum, a generalized institutional shame. What the comments section delivered instead was something the paper did not see coming: incredulity. Not from racists, but from ordinary people watching a newspaper of record mistake a cautionary tale for a civil rights document and wondering if anyone at the Post had actually read their own story.
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