2020-06-05 00:00:00, Betsy Klein, CNN
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(CNN)President Donald Trump took a victory lap on news of a 13.3% US unemployment rate Friday, beginning what he had billed as Rose Garden news conference — though he didn't take questions — with tangent-filled remarks on the economy and taking credit for lower unemployment numbers.
While the numbers still reflect enormous levels of American unemployment, the jobless rate improved from the dramatic 14.7% in April, which was the worst rate since monthly record keeping began in 1948.
In one sign of systemic inequality, black unemployment, at 16.8%, remains significantly higher than white unemployment, at 12.4%.
The US economy added 2.5 million jobs in May, after 20.7 million positions vanished in April.
He touted progress on the coronavirus vaccine front, cited the country's clean air and clean water, compared the Green New Deal to "baby talk," railed against governors that continue to lock down, and claimed his poll numbers are "looking really good."
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