It was supposed to be a celebration. President Obama visited an Ohio Chrysler factory Friday where he planned to tout the end of government ownership in the auto company and the success of his economic record generally. But facts got in the way of both. Hours before Obama touched down in Toledo, the Department of Labor released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy created an anemic 54,000 jobs in May, sending the nation’s unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent.

Obama had nothing to say about the jobs report in his speech, and when a reporter shouted a question at him about it later in the day, the president ignored him.