You can include GDP too.
Here are the numbers again:
Track record of unemployment reduction
- (9.9 percent) starting in 2010 under Obama policy the unemployment rate fell for eight straight years.
- (4.7 percent) Obama’s last year in office
- (4.1 percent) In 2017, the first year of Trump’s term (but before many of his policies were implemented)
- (3.9 percent) In 2018, with the Trump tax cuts and other magical elements of Trumpism on the books, it fell again to 3.9 percent.
Per the above time line unemployment fell by a 5.8 percentage points under Obama policy over eight years and 0.2 percentage points under Trump’s policies through the end of 2018.
If you want to object to not crediting TrumpO for all of In 2017 U will go there as unrealistic as that is.
Per that scenario unemployment fell by a 5.6 percentage points under Obama policy over eight years and 0.8 percentage points under Trump’s policies through the end of 2018.
Obama kicks TrumpO’s ass on unemployment reduction.
That’s why the TrumpO cult can only get excited by record lows.
Knowing where each President started and TrumpO being the successor of course TrumpO has the ONLY possibility to set historic lows.
But the fact remains TrumpO could not set those records in two years had Obama not reduced unemployment to somewhere between 4.7 and 4.1 from 9.9 in 2009.
A little appreciation would mean a lot.