Analysis: How Trump tries to obscure the strong economy he inherited
President Trump gives a thumbs up during a Make America Great Again rally in Green Bay, Wis., on April 27, 2019. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 7 at 6:57 PM Polling consistently shows that, while Americans remain generally skeptical of President Trump’s job performance, they give him good marks on his handling of the economy.
They’re not wrong, mind you. They just don’t really tell the whole story. Here, for example, is that average monthly increase in the number of jobs added to the economy under each president. Trump’s average has been 202,000, while Obama’s was 110,000. So let’s go back to the tweet from Team Trump. They next touted the average unemployment rate under Obama and Trump. Again, it’s true that the average under Obama was 7.4 percent and that Trump’s averaged 4.1 percent.
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