In what's starting to become an annual event, the U.S. economy rebounded solidly in the second quarter after an underwhelming start to the year, according to the latest gross domestic product report published Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Economic growth registered a 2.6 percent annual pace during April, May and June, following the first quarter's underwhelming 1.2 percent rate of expansion. A rebound in both consumer and government spending bolstered the economy during President Donald Trump's first full quarter in the White House, with upticks of 2.8 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively.

That 2.6 percent quarterly growth rate isn't nearly enough to put the U.S. on track for Trump's promised 3 percent annual economic growth, though advisers have acknowledged it may take a few years – and significant legislative moves on Capitol Hill such as and tax reform – for things to get going.

Still, the second quarter's rate of expansion looks a lot rosier than the first three months of 2017 – which were revised down from a previously reported 1.4 percent. Still, the rebound was widely expected and has become a running theme for the U.S. economy.

Over the past few years, the first quarter has notoriously and consistently underperformed, leading some analysts to question whether some sort of seasonal adjustments are inherently lowering Q1 performance. Going back to 2009, the year the U.S. exited the Great Recession, the first quarter was the weakest for growth in 2016, 2014, 2011, 2010 and 2009.

"Through the first half of the year, the pace of U.S. economic activity appears to be on trend with what we are accustomed to seeing with the current expansion – GDP growth registering another disappointing first quarter growth performance to be followed with a stronger pace of growth in the second quarter," Sam Bullard, a managing director and senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities, wrote in a research note Thursday.

That said, Friday's release did include a series of revisions going back over the last several quarters, adjusting GDP readings where appropriate based on newly collected data. In total, the country's overall economic story remains the same, with real GDP managing a 2.3 percent annual rate of growth between 2013 and 2016 rather than the previously reported 2.2 percent. The recovery over the last few years has been modest, and at no point did the U.S. dip into a previously unknown recession.

Still, though, some revisions were notable. Growth in 2014 was revised up 0.2 percentage points, while 2015 received a 0.3 percentage point boost. Growth in 2016, however, was lowered 0.1 percentage points.