President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which he said were "rigged".

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, claiming the job numbers were "phony" and that the commissioner had "faked" other job figures to help Democrats.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before th