Ahead of this morning’s jobs report, most projections pointed to growth in September of 147,000 jobs. It looks like those expectations were a bit too rosy.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the economy added 136,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%. Fortunately, the revisions from July and August were revised up, adding 45,000 from previous reporting.

As for the political implications, Donald Trump has now been in office for 32 full months – February 2017 through September 2019 – and in that time, the economy has created 6.03 million jobs. In the 32 months preceding Trump’s presidency – June 2014 to January 2017 – the economy created 7.16 million jobs.

I recently heard from some readers who asked what would happen if we looked at the same numbers, but assigned the job totals from January 2017 to Trump, even though Obama was president for most of the month. On balance, I think that paints a misleading picture, but it doesn’t change the underlying dynamic: if we applied jobs from January 2017 to Trump and compared the last 33 months to the previous 33 months, job totals still slowed from 7.46 million to 6.28 million.

The White House, meanwhile, believes we should actually start the clock for Trump at November 2016 – the month of the Republican’s election – and apply the jobs created during the final months of the Obama era to the current Republican president. But that still doesn’t help: if we compare the last 35 months to the previous 35 months, job totals slowed from 7.74 million to 6.66 million.

Trump continues to tell the world that he’s overseeing the strongest domestic job growth in American history, which is plainly false. What’s more, the White House has not yet offered an explanation for why job growth has slowed since Trump took office.

Above you’ll find the chart I run every month, showing monthly changes in total jobs since the start of the Great Recession. The image makes a distinction: red columns point to monthly changes under the Bush and Trump administrations, while blue columns point to monthly job changes under the Obama administration.

Update: So far this year, the United States has added 1.45 million jobs, which puts 2019 on track to be the worst year for domestic job creation since 2010.