Trump loves to claim we have a booming economy, “the greatest economy ever.” But Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that job creation under Trump’s first 29 months in office have been far lower than job creation under Obama in his last 29 months in office — 800,000 fewer. And it’s likely to over a million soon because the numbers were even better in the months before that under Obama.





During the first 29 full months that Trump has been in office, from February 2017 through June 2019, the economy created 5.61 million jobs, or about 194,000 per month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During Obama’s last 29 full months, from September 2014 to January 2017, the economy added 6.42 million new jobs, or about 221,000 per month. Altogether, job growth under Trump is about 810,000 jobs short of what it was under Obama during the final part of his presidency… “Looking at the next six months with Obama’s job numbers of 188,000 to 327,000 per month, the gap should only increase and cross 1 million,” wrote Forbes’ Chuck Jones.

Of course, Trump has a handy excuse. He’ll just blame the Fed and claim that if only they’d cut interest rates the economy would be skyrocketing. But then how does that square with his claim that we have the greatest economy ever? It doesn’t, obviously, but neither he nor his supporters care.