When President Joe Biden was asked by the press why many Americans are concerned about the economy, he responded by claiming reporters are 'not the happiest people.' Biden spoke to White House reporters following remarks on the latest jobs report Friday afternoon. He cited the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report indicating that the economy is doing fairly well and that employers added 336,000 jobs in September.
Look, I gotta choose my words here, you all are not the happiest people in the world, what you report, and I mean this sincerely,' Biden claimed. 'You get more legs when you report something that’s negative. I don’t mean you’re picking on me, just the nature of things. You turn on the television and there’s not a whole lot about ‘Boy saves dog as he swims in the lake,’ you know. It is about ‘Somebody pushed the dog in the lake.