Trump's first-year jobs record was strong. Just not as strong as Obama's last year
Trump wasn't in office yet when the Labor Department collected the data used in January 2017 jobs report, so for the sake of comparison it makes sense to exclude the first month of the year. But in the remaining 11 monthly jobs reports, employers added 1.84 million jobs, according to the December jobs report released Friday. That compares to 2.09 million jobs added in Obama's last 11 months in office.
Even if you just look at full-year numbers, the 2.06 million jobs added in 2017 falls short of the 2.24 million jobs created in 2016, Obama's last full year in office.
What's the deal?
We elected the greatest businessman in history and he can't even beat the numbers of a Community Organizer?
Trump promised to be the greatest jobs creator ever and he can't even match Obama
His first year job numbers are the community organizers also.
The first year of every new President is still operating on the final year of the previous Presidents economic policy.
That year didn't end until September 30, 2017, which officially ended that fiscal year.
The argument can also be made that because no legislation was signed by Trump the entire year, the 4th quarter of 2017 was also still operating on the Obama economic policy.
Trump doesn't get any economic credit or blame for anything until now, because it's the start of his second year, and he has now penned his name to a major piece of legislation.
And Obama gave him a bicycle with training wheels because he inherited a booming economy from Obama with low fuel prices, and a steadily growing jobs market, with wages that started on increase at the end of his last year in office.