At a media availability on Tuesday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a prebuttal to President Trump's first State of the Union. Schumer said the president thinks "he was born on third base and assumed he hit a triple" when it comes to the economic recovery, while he really "owes a lot of it to Barack Obama."



"Two words I don't think we'll hear tonight on the economy? Thanks, Obama!" Schumer told reporters.





SCHUMER: This evening, President Trump is set to deliver his first official State of the Union address. I want to talk just for a moment about the things we expect him to say, as well as what we imagine he'll leave out. First, the White House has said the President intends to take credit for the economy.







Just as he was born on third base and assumed he hit a triple, the President thinks our economic recovery is all thanks to him, when reality is that he owes a lot of it to Barack Obama. Two words I don't think we'll hear tonight on the economy? Thanks, Obama.



Under President Trump - under President Obama, the unemployment rate plummeted from 10 percent to down under 5. The stock market, which Trump constantly brags about, grew faster under Obama than it has under Trump.



And President Obama created more jobs in his first year than President Trump did in his. Second, we expect the President to talk about bipartisanship. But throughout his time in office, he has failed to walk the walk.



The administration has repeatedly excluded Democrats from working on major policy initiatives, from taxes to healthcare. Their version of bipartisanship is having Republicans get together in a back room, write a bill, and then pound the table and demand the Democrats support it with no input at all.