President Donald Trump on Friday fired Erika L. McEntarfer,the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, based on a weak July jobs report, after alleging that she manipulated the numbers to make him look bad.

A stunning government report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump took the report personally and attacked McEntarfer. 

Trump claimed that the country’s jobs reports “are being produced by a Biden appointee” and ordered his administration to terminate her.

“We need accurate Jobs Numbers,” Trump wrote. “She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate; they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.”

He intensified his attack in a later post, writing: “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

An administration official told NBC News shortly after the post that McEntarfer had indeed been fired.

The deputy director of BLS, Bill Wiatrowski, who took up the role during the Obama administration, will become the acting director “during the search for a replacement,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said.

McEntarfer, whose research focuses on job loss, retirement, worker mobility, and wage rigidity, had previously worked at the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy, and the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a nonpolitical role. 

She has a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from Bard College and a doctoral degree in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.