Obviously, these numbers don’t reflect world events that affect the economy. And Trump’s term isn’t over yet so who knows where it will end up?
But the truth is that his “job growth” wasn’t that great before the pandemic hit. The following is from January, 2020:
Employment —Total nonfarm employment grew by nearly 6.7 million since the president took office, according to the most recent figures available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That continued an unbroken chain of monthly gains in total employment that started in October 2010. The economy has now added jobs every month for more than nine years, including the first two years and 11 months of the Trump administration.
Yet Trump is far behind the pace needed to fulfill his campaign boast that he will be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” At this rate he will not even come up to the gains made during Obama’s final term. The average monthly gain under Trump so far is 191,000 — compared with an average monthly gain of 217,000 during the four years before he took office.
And let’s not forget that one of the reasons this pandemic is destroying the economy is because Trump’s response has been so tragically incompetent. And now he and his accomplices in the GOP seem determined to make it even worse by refusing to spend the necessary money to keep individuals, businesses and state and local governments afloat until a vaccine is in place and/or the vast number of American dipshits who can’t seem to accept that they’re spreading this disease all over the place start doing the things necessary to bring the virus under control.
So, yes. He is a:
