In what is a very good, if disturbing, article about the Trump administration’s assault on national data, I noticed this tidbit (boldface mine):

On January 8, 2026, Donald Trump broke a foundational norm of American politics and barely anyone noticed. The political press corps, quite reasonably preoccupied with the administration’s numerous other entanglements, mostly turned a blind eye when Trump posted unreleased economic data to his Truth Social account the night before it was scheduled to be released….

A former Bureau of Labor Statistics employee with knowledge of the incident, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, described the statistics agency’s handling of the imbroglio to me. By their account, after the improper release, the acting commissioner of BLS called the acting chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, who shares the prerelease data along with analysis to the president, and threatened to revoke the White House’s early access if Trump flouted data release procedure again. The two eventually came to an understanding that the issue arose because only the first page of the prerelease materials bore an embargo label, and so the president assumed that all subsequent pages were available to publicize. Going forward, the acting CEA chair and acting BLS commissioner agreed to include an embargo note on every page to prevent confusion. (BLS did not respond to a request for comment.)

So do we really believe that explanation? While it is quite possible that Trump lacks object permanence to the extent he needs THIS IS TOP SEKRIT written on every page, I have doubts that even Trump is that stupid.

Anyway, Trump should resign or be impeached.