Over the first 3 years, Trump has added 550,000 manufacturing jobs..
Over Obama's final 3 years, he added 252,000.
The slope of the graph has barely changed.
Over Trump's first 3 years, Trump has added 550,000 manufacturing jobs..
Over Obama's final 3 years, he added 252,000.
Trump's increase rate is over double Obama's. "Over double" is much different than "barely changed" especially to our manufacturing workers.
Any momentum Obama may have one had, had pretty much died in his final year that ended in 2016, and it was a loss of momentum that Obama saw as inevitable and unchangeable. Trump though otherwise, and as is often the case, the fellow that can, is the fellow that thinks he can.
As Obama's manufacturing employment flattened out in his final year, and Obama urged workers to accept this dismal performance as the wave of the future, manufacturing Capacity Utilization was plummeting, in a truly ugly performance as Obama's presidency slowly ground to a full stop.
Trump assured Manufacturing Workers that he could bring those jobs back, that close factories would reopen, that unlike Obama claimed, THOSE JOBS WOULD COME BACK, and then Trump delivered. In addition roaring employment, Manufacturing Capacity Utilization went from Obamaian decline to powerful Trumpian Growth:
And at 76% utilization, there is still a lot of room for this boom to run.