Day 1,124: Trump remains forever triggered by Obama
For years, Donald Trump has lambasted Barack Obama. For years, Donald Trump has been patently racist when speaking about Barack Obama. For years, Donald Trump has criticized Barack Obama for one thing — like playing the occasional round of golf — only for him to do the same thing ten-fold.
Trump’s insecurities about all things Obama border on obsessive.
For instance, Trump has tweeted about Obama 2,609 times. Since being inaugurated, he has tweeted about him more than once every three days, far less often than he’s tweeted about Hillary Clinton.
So it should come as no surprise that on President’s Day, Trump was triggered by an Obama tweet.
It’s a fact that Obama championed the Recovery Act and signed it into law. And it’s also a fact that the Recovery Act was the first of many steps that led to a booming economy for more than a decade.
Trump’s paper-thin skin revealed itself right away, even though he wasn’t even mentioned in Obama’s tweet.
Trump is trying to sell the idea that he inherited an economy in tatters, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Job growth has actually slowed under Trump compared to the end of Obama’s term.
“We’re producing jobs like you have never seen before in this country,” [Trump] said during a recent speech in Michigan.
But you don’t have to go back far to find three years of better job growth. Just to back to the previous three years under Barack Obama.
During Trump’s first 36 months in office, the US economy has gained 6.6 million jobs. But during a comparable 36-month period at the end of Obama’s tenure, employers added 8.1 million jobs, or 23% more than what has been added since Trump took office.
The average monthly gain so far under Trump is 182,000 jobs. During the last 36 months under Obama, employers were adding an average of 224,000 jobs a month.
In terms of unemployment rate, it’s hard to understand why Trump thinks he took over anything but an economy that was in the middle of a boom.
Trump has routinely tried to goose the economy, like his trillion-dollar tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy that he claimed would see benefits trickle down to everyone else. Those benefits did not trickle down and the tax cuts did nothing to boost the economy.
From a stock market performance perspective, Trump is still easily being outpaced by Obama over the same span of their times in office.
Perhaps no image is as non-refutable as the one below that Trump inherited a economy on a sharp rise.
Trump’s biggest problem is he has always felt tiny next to Obama. That feeling is similar to the way he has tried to pretend he’s a self-made man who only got a “small” $1 million loan from his father, when, in reality, it was nearly a half a billion dollars when it was all said and done.
As Trump dog-whistled, Obama ignored him. After Trump was elected, Obama was the bigger man and tried to ease Trump’s transition into office. As Trump has continued to blame Obama for everything, Obama has largely stayed out of the spotlight and didn’t say a word about Trump publicly for nearly two years.
A former president celebrating an important day that helped turn the U.S. economy around sent Trump into a tizzy because Trump will be forever triggered until the day he dies by Barack Obama.
1,124 days in, 338 to go
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