Note: The unemployment rate is calculated the same way it has always been calculated. If you don't think it's accurate, then you could make a case. If you want to come up with a new way to calculate it, then wring your hands over how it is really so much higher than it was in the past, that can't be supported. If we're to compare the unemployment rate over time and see what the trends are, then we have to use the same formula every time, otherwise there is no baseline to compare it to.
So, deciding to re calculate the unemployment rate, then compare the new formula to the old result is simply a way of attempting to convince people that the economy is a lot worse than it really is. Why would anyone do that, anyway? Are we trying to discredit the president, who has little control over unemployment anyway?