As always with Trump, he never stopped overstating even legitimately good news. The “best economy in history” was not really that. Even putting aside the pandemic, Trump’s economy was roughly similar to what he inherited from Barack Obama, growing 7.7 percent and adding 6.2 million jobs during his first three years compared with 7.5 percent and 7.6 million new jobs in the previous three years. The stock market did significantly better; the S&P index grew 44 percent in Trump’s first three years compared with 25 percent in Obama’s final three years. But Trump failed to fulfill pledges to reduce
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