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Zorro

(16,100 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:23 AM Sep 2020

Trump boasts about a great economic record. Too bad it's Obama's.

Opinion by Catherine Rampell

In recent days, President Trump and allies have offered a fulsome defense of a presidential economic record.

Alas, the presidential record they’re describing isn’t Trump’s. It belongs to his predecessor, Barack Obama. And perhaps also to Obama’s second-in-command, Joe Biden.

Team Trump, in promulgating the myth of Trump’s economic genius, has recently doubled down on a false narrative: that Trump inherited a recession and magically turned it into a boom. This is almost the exact reverse of events of the past 3½ years. In reality Trump inherited from Obama an expansion — one that, in retrospect, turned out to be the longest in U.S. history — and converted it into a bust.

Not just any bust; a possible depression, at least for the working class.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-boasts-about-a-great-economic-record-too-bad-its-obamas/2020/08/31/1eebc59a-ebb8-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
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Trump boasts about a great economic record. Too bad it's Obama's. (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2020 OP
Obama gave Trump a gift, and Trump pissed on it. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2020 #1
I've been saying this all along. secondwind Sep 2020 #2

ProudMNDemocrat

(18,580 posts)
1. Obama gave Trump a gift, and Trump pissed on it.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:25 AM
Sep 2020

Like he does with everything he has been given. He takes without giving anything back but ruin.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. I've been saying this all along.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:30 AM
Sep 2020

We’ve had I don’t know how many months of straight job growth that spilled over into the Trump presidency but were not a result of any of his policies.

I think the number was quite high, possibly 120 or more months of straight growth.

Trump’s only been in office for 44-45 months.
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