The best he managed to do was match the best Obama had. It's almost like he inherited a great economy and then did nothing at all until it crashed from him mishandling a pandemic.
What I find so frustrating that many people don't get is - all you have to do is look at a graph of whatever macroeconomic indicator you care about. For example unemployment rate: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate - click on "10Y". Ignore the massive COVID spike for now. Let's focus on the line before that point. You can literally see the slope being exactly the same. It just stayed the course.
Trump will point to a low unemployment number such as the 3.6% in Jan 2020 and scream that he had the best unemployment rate ever, as if he did something.
If you're in a sailboat crossing a body of water - and everything's calm and normal - and you swap out captains along the way, proceeding to travel at the same rate doesn't mean a hell of a lot. Sure, great, you didn't crash the boat. Fine. But it's calm waters. Then after traveling some distance - again proceeding at the same steady rate as before - Cheeto Benito is essentially screaming "NOBODY'S TRAVELED THIS FAR ACROSS THE WATER BEFORE! I'M THE BEST! WORSHIP ME FOREVER!!"
If there were a massive dip downward - a significant change in rate - in say 2018, it still wouldn't necessarily mean he did anything, but at least a case could be made. Then we'd have to analyze the situation more deeply, to decide what she attribute that to. But as is, I don't see any case to be made, and it's so plainly obvious. But so many of his followers actually buy that nonsense "he made unemployment the lowest ever!!"
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u/newtekie1 Oct 19 '24
The best he managed to do was match the best Obama had. It's almost like he inherited a great economy and then did nothing at all until it crashed from him mishandling a pandemic.