White House trade adviser Peter Navarro Monday slammed weekend reports about the nation's record job losses from the coronavirus pandemic as a "pity party" and insisted that the current economic crisis is "not the Great Depression."

"Anybody who thinks this is the Great Depression doesn't understand either history or economics," Navarro said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "The Great Depression pity party stuff I saw yesterday, this ain't fact."

Over the weekend, two of President Donald Trump's key economic advisers told news programs that the unemployment rates are at least at 20% to 25%. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News' Chris Wallace that the true unemployment rate could be as high as 25%, and Kevin Hassett, Trump's senior economic adviser, told CNN that the unemployment rate will likely be at 20% in the next report. 

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow argued on ABC News that there is a "glimmer of hope" under the unemployment reports, as "80% was furloughs and temporary layoffs."

"The Great Depression was a 10-year process that came out of the end of World War I, went through inflation, and then a deflation cycle, accompanied by catastrophic applications of currency trade, fiscal and monetary policy and it lasted a very, very long time," said Navarro Monday. "President Donald Trump built up the strongest most beautiful economy in 3.5 years before the Chinese Communist Party dropped the virus on the world and in 60 days temporarily shut us down. What we all need to do here is focus on the mission, the original mission."

Trump was bringing manufacturing onshore, he added, and if the American people start "making things, we will move forward in a way where we will rebound ... we need to focus on what's in the future here and it's a bright future."

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