President Mic Drop & Kermit the Frog help DNC celebrate 'disappointing' jobs report

The April jobs report was released today, and the economic news is tepid at best:

The U.S. added 160,000 jobs in April, well below expectations. Unemployment rate stays at 5% https://t.co/0CaRiLclSW pic.twitter.com/pwraM7opO3

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) May 6, 2016

U.S. economy added a disappointing total of 160,000 new jobs in April https://t.co/2BSL0IUarE

— TIME (@TIME) May 6, 2016

Breaking News – Jobs Report a Dud
160,000 Total
171,000 Private Sector
Fed Rate Hike a Myth
U-6 Unemployment Rate 9.7%
Participation 62.8

— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) May 6, 2016

This month's jobs report has a big disappointment https://t.co/192i4a2vmP

— Vox (@voxdotcom) May 6, 2016

The DNC spiked the ball anyway:

74 straight months of private-sector job growth and unemployment at 5%. That's #progress worth celebrating. pic.twitter.com/IH4L1kRwCD

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) May 6, 2016

#JobsDay Fact: In the past five months, wages have grown faster than at any point since the Great Recession. pic.twitter.com/ICzwC54qKe

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) May 6, 2016

There’s a lot left unsaid there, including…

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Obama’s presidency will be the first in modern times to fail to coincide with a single year of 3% economic growth – https://t.co/ddZaVxgl0B

— Andrew Müller (@AndrewMiiller) May 1, 2016

The Dems might want to give Nancy Pelosi the great news about wages, because she obviously hasn’t yet gotten the memo:

Jobs report shows progress but we must do more to grow paychecks of Americans. Msg to @HouseGOP is clear: #DoYourJob https://t.co/6EJ0MRjGnk

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 6, 2016