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

[Zorro]

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

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Obama gave Trump a gift, and Trump pissed on it.

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

[secondwind]

2. I've been saying this all along.

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.