Airforceone

Trump claimed he won the election because our economywas a mess and only he could fix. He continues to this day saying he inherited a mess. So I decided to do some research and what Trump actually inherited was an economy experiencing steady if not spectacular growth in output, jobs, and income that were beginning to rise. But the right wing continues to deny the facts of an economy Obama inherited and what Trump inherited. It's sad that the right wing cannot admit to real facts.

Any president coming into office has inherited the last year of the preceding president as in the case of Trump no budget or spending can be done until the Trump budget goes into effect because it gets approved in Nov. 2017 and goes into effect Jan 1st 2018. In Trumps first 6 months he is under the Obama final year of spending, immigration policies, all are policies and agendas are on Obama not Trump. Trump has passed no major legislation to date. He's done nothing but talk.

Let's look at jobs a big bragging point by Trump
And how he took over an economy in Shambles. Big Trump talking point.

Obamas last 12 months Trump inherited 2.2 million jobs added and a trend of 75 straight months of positive job growth. All denied by the right but BLS shows the real facts. That is the longest streak in history and continued into the Trump administration. Great job Donald do nothing and take the credit.

Obama not so fortunate the economy had lost 4.4 million jobs in the preceding 12 months and continued at a rate of 800,000 jobs a month.

When Trump took office in Jan. According to BLS there were 5.5 million job openings which was at an all time record high. This figure has been at this level for the last 18 months of Obama and continued into the first 6 months of Trump. So Obama left Trump with 5.5 million jobs on the books. But Trump continues to brag.

Obama took office with a 7.9% unemployment and losing 800,000 jobs a month and unemployment topped out at 10%. When Obama left office unemployment was at 4.7% 5.5 million jobs on the books.

Trump entered Office with Jobless rate at 4.7% with 5.5 million jobs on the books. What a mess he took over. Trump really has balls bragging about his early accomplishments.

Trump entered Office at a time when incomes had just begun to rise over the last 6 months of Obama. In 2015 mediam household income had jumped over 5.2% the largest one year jump in history. The income level for Obamas final year is projected to be even higher than the 5.2% and Trump is already using 2016 stats and bragging about these levels. But has done nothing.

Let's look at the economy which under Obama has posted annual increases in real (inflation- Adjusted) GDP products for 5 years. But the right uses this as a negative that Obama never exceeded 3%. Trump has promised 4%. But a 4% hasn't been reached since the dot.com bubble in 2000 when Bush took office. So Bush inherited an growing economy and a $295 Billion surplus. But 2016 projected growth is at 3.5% and should be the same for 2017 which Trump is already taking credit. Trump first measurements will be at the end of 2018 right now he rides the Obama trend.

Corporate profits Trump took office when corporate profits are running at near record highs. Just in 2014 corporate profit levels hit record levels of $1.73 trillion after taxes and were running at an annual rate of $1.68 trillion by the third quarter of 2016. Trump has already taken credit for the 4th quarter under Obama.
Previous to Obama these year was 2006 @ $1.38 trillion. Profits have now exceeded that old record for the past 6 years and are on track to do it again. Trump is already taking credit for this.

Single family home prices as figures show had begun to recover in 2015 at a 7% rate since the housing bubble began in 2007. Housing prices are usually the last to recover.

Trump takes office with a lower % of Americans lacking health Insurance than anytime on record thanks to a program he vows to repeal after promising ever American affordable healthcare.

Murder rates in 2015 was at a rate of 4.9 murders per 100,000 people which was at its lowest rate since 1960 in the 1980's under Reagan it was at 10.6%. Trump continues with the lie that murder rates are at its highest it's been in 45 years.

Trump promised to re- Negotiate TPP because he is a great negotiator. But the great negotiator withdrew. Now we have no trade in the Trans Pacific. That accounts for 12 nations equaling 40% of the worlds economic output and the US shares in none of it. This has hurt expecially our Agricultural products but that's okay the great negotiator created 1700 coal jobs.
The Agricultural community in Montana realizes now this is one big missed opportunity. The concerns given to Trump about TPP was currency manipulation and great great negotiator decided not to negotiate and just withdrew. TPP could have opened just in the agricultural community $63 billion in trade and the farm bureau federation estimated just Montana lost out on a estimated $86.9 million in exports. Trump promised Bi-Lateral agreements with the countries in TPP but in 6 months has done nothing. So the agricultural community misses out on an annual $63 billion in trade. The problem is once the trade between these nation have started you will not be able to get invovled it's gone.

Remember the Trump promise to get out of NAFTA until someone showed that buffoon a picture of Iowa corn that makes up 40% of there corn produced and he dropped that real quick.

The states such as Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana are having real problems with getting information with Trumps administration because he has locked down these agencies so they can't get any information.

NOW TRUMP BRAGGING ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET WHICH ONLY 20% OF THE COUNTRY ACTUALLY BENEFITS FROM)

Obama stock market over 8 years rebounded and the S&P 500 Index damm near tripled. A trend that has continued under Trump. When Obama took office the US economy was in turmoil.Dow closed at 7,949 on his first day and closed at 19,732 on his last day. That was a 148% increase. The S&P closed at 805 on Obamas first day and closed at 2,264 on his last day.

So we listen day after Trump bragging about this so-called mess he took over. But there is no question with these facts a figures he is riding the Obama wave and taking the credit.

kankune Loc: Iowa

You're so right....obama was such a good President. He was the first at everything.

:First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)
First president to allow Iran to inspect their own facilities.
First president to have blood on his hands from Benghazi to the assassinations of several police officers.
First president to trade 5 terrorist for a traitor
First president to facilitate the Iranians to acquire nuclear weapons.
First president to light up the White House in rainbow colors to honor men that lust after other men’s rear ends.
First president to put young children in danger by forcing states to allow men in women’s restroom and showers.
First president to marry a man.
First president to allow crack cocaine in the White House.
I could go on for days but you get the point.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

I suggest that Trump is not your common Conservative at all, but his proposed program of legislation was indeed more Conservative than Liberal, and far more Conservative than Progressive. Further, I suggest that Trump himself is prone to exaggeration and hyperbole as part of his very nature, and he is very combative, perhaps to a fault.

It is obvious that he underestimates the difficulties of getting legislation through Congress, which is surely a result of his lack of experience in DC. He uses Twitter to get around the media, which has some merit, but in general he hurts his image more than he gains. Trump has canceled many of Obama's Executive Orders already, which I consider a huge plus, and he has canceled a number of regulations Obama's EPA and other departments set forth which is also a big plus. His selection of Gorsuch for the Supreme Court is an outstanding move.

This all said, I shudder to think of Clinton in the White House. It is beyond imagination to realize that she placed TS/SCI/TK information on her server unmarked, and (so far) has not been brought to full account. Had I done that, I would be sitting in Leavenworth right now. I abhor such a double standard!

Loki Loc: Georgia

I think you answered the shitstain's question.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

Outstanding summary of a miserable 8 years!

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

You forgot first president that nest has a love doll of.

PeterS

During the Obama years any bit of positive economic news was greeted by conservatives screaming FAKE and what I find so ironic is that today those same numbers are of such high quality that they can be taken to the bank and be counted on as better than gold. And what did Trump do to generate such lofty numbers--nothing more than to wave his mighty hand. For as much hatred that conservatives shown towards Obama they seem to have found the same in terms of love for Trump.

Were it not for Trump the Stock Market surely would fall and all those who are now employed would be savaging for work. They seem to have completely lost sight that the market was at record highs before Trump came along and the economy was producing the same, if not a little more jobs, than we are producing now. And of course, all those regulations they claim were strangling our economy--well from the jobs and market perspective they don't seem to have strangled anything at all. Yes there is coal--but natural gas, wind, and solar are a more capable replacing it and will produce more long term jobs than ever to be found in coal.

Aside from some EO's Trump hasn't done a single thing to impact our economy. No legislation, no tax policy, no infrastructure spending bills that our economy so badly needs. And yet, for conservatives Obama was the devil who KILLED our economy and were it not for Trump we could all do the same with our lives...

Alicia Loc: NYC

*****************************
I can honestly report that, with the exception of his State of the Union address, Obama never bragged about his accomplishments. So unlike the big moth in the Oval Office presently who takes credit when he hasn't the right. I imagine he does this in order to keep his narcissistic personality blocked up. He's a loser.

plainlogic

Your progressive liberal democratic rants are from the liberal education system. Anything you say is from the very same liberal institution with all the barking, so with that being said, Read on.... With a more multitude of points added to what Kune has written.

I'll add a few more from Kune:

First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens

First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack

First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia

First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats,
and using a film maker as a scapegoat

First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as pro-Catholic and pro-Jewish Groups

First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them

First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person

First President to Systematically Release Detained Illegal Aliens Charged With Homicide Into the U.S. Population

First President to Release 40,000 Illegal Aliens with Serious and/or Violent Criminal Records Inside the U.S.

First President to Create Secret Police Units Inside Government Agencies to Block Lawful Investigations by Inspectors General

First President to Personally Lobby Senators to Violate Senate Rules and Destroy the Filibuster Through "The Nuclear Option" to Consolidate More Executive Power

First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images"

First President to Barricade Open-Air Government Monuments During a Partial Government Shutdown

First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals

First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas

First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department

First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions

First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court

First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places

First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena

First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years

First president to appoint a convicted cop killer's advocate to the Department of Justice

First Administration to Be Ruled by a Federal Judge as Aiding and Abetting Human Trafficking

First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees

First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"

Is there anymore to be said about the illustrious Obama whom you're holding on a political pedestal compared with Trump?
Nest, these are all facts taken from:ACLU, Business Insider, Mediate, House Oversight Committee, et. al; Ted Cruz, AP, NYTs,
USA Today, Judicial Watch, Wall Street Journal, Rep. Steve Stockman, PoliticoBusiness Insider
United States Court of Appeals, DHS documents, CNN, IBD, Heritage Foundation, ABC News
NBC News, Federal District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen, Fox News,

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Never bragged? Sure he didn't. He lied. The man had no accomplishments except convincing you moon bats he was one of you.
He felt your pain. What a bunch of dumb asses you people are. The 1% whom you snowflakes hate did better under Obama than they ever had. He even convinced you morons he was going to make Wall Street "pay" for their part in the Financial meltdown. They payed alright. They have payed Obama for speeches. These are the people he now hangs out with. Suckers!

Airforceone

You know something I could answer to all that BS but when I start with foreign student and SS number it shows you never even tried to get the facts on all that BS even you're freak Fat McDonalds eating prick in the White admitted he was born in this country and you don't believe that. It just shows how out of touch you are at what Obama accomplished. It's really sad you still use all these talking points that were actually created by The freaks and rapist at Fox News. First president to marry a man are you really that stupid. Crack cocain in the White House you're nuts or just insane. Irainians are no longer making nukes the Fat freak just renewed the Iran deal. So that's stupid. Benghazi scandal was stupid investigation showed nothing just a fabricated scandal that proved nothing.

(WHY DON't YOU FACT CHECK THIS BS YOU POST ITS STUPID AND LACKS ANY COMMON SENSE.

It proves that you are a racist and not looking for facts.

If you bothered to check Obama paid the dog trainer out of his own pocket and $102,000 was a fabricated number made up by Fox News

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Hold it. You said all Trump does is lie. So Trump said Obama was born in the U.S.. So you are saying Obama wasn't because Trump lies.
Got it. Thanks for clearing that up.

Airforceone

I was so pissed about the Dog trainer BS you just posted and decided to time myself as to fact checking this garbage and it took about 5 minutes out of my time to show how GD stupid that statement was.

Fox News started this garbage by identifying Reggie Love as a Dog trainer at $102,000 but for the record Reggie Love was the presidents personal assistant which all presidents have that takes care of all the presidents scheduling, Valet, and all personal needs while traveling. (HE WAS NOT A DOG TRAINER 5 MINUTES OUT OF YOU'RE TIME WOULD HAVE PROVEN YOU WRONG)
The name of Obamas trainer was Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz who trained the dog for two weeks before entering the White House and paid for personally by Obama. There was no evidence in the presidents budget that that trainer received any funds from the federal government.

I could go on and on about such foolishness like SS number and how it was an error by the SS office that used to use Key punch machine at that time to issue SS cards and it was one number off which was a common mistake but SS admitted to that error and also stated at the time it was a common mistake. There were thousands of cards issued with one number off just by hitting the wrong key.

But with all this hate you have for a man who took this country out of the worst recession since the Great Depression it just shows that you are nothing but a racist that refuses to use any common sense. Take a few minutes and fact check you're garbage post.

Airforceone

I agree I shudder to think of Clinton in the White House but I disagree when you say exaggerations by Trump they are in most cases flat out lies. The facts that he said he took office and it was a mess. Yes Trump signed those EO and none have gone into effect and will not go into effect till Jan1 of 2018 we are still under the Obama agenda till then.

Trumps accomplishments and wealth are what's exaggerated. He could clear this Russian issue up with just releasing his tax returns to clearify if he was receiving these highly inflated Funds he was receiving for his real Estate and where he was borrowing his money. The biggest concern I have was his firing of Preet Baharar who was two days from the start of a trial on Russian laudering by the Russians that were purchasing High end real estate in NY city. It was a $275 million law suite. Trump fired him and Jeff Sessions settled the case out of court for $6 million. That trial never happened so the Russians never had to answer the questions as to who they paid and why they actually paid doubled the cost. Preet Baharar knew it was Trump but it never got to trial and never got a chance to prove that Trump was invovled. But it will soon be exposed with the Special prosecutors because he has the ability to get Trump tax returns.

This last election scared the shit out of me with the choices we had. The only real conservative was John Kacish out of Ohio but the conservatives turned there back on him and elected a high end real estate agent to run this country and that's sad.

Airforceone

See can't deal with facts so you go to insults. Typical BS just like the freak in the White House when his lies are exposed just blame the press.