kibitzer wrote:
Ooh, so close! It almost looked like DJT could crack the 42% barrier this month, but now he seems to be on the downswing again.
And, of course, the President still has never had 50% approval--not for a single day--despite an economy that has continued to prosper. Amazing.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/By the way, a couple years ago I said that I would give Trump credit if the job market continued to grow. And now I am.
I fully realize that a president can't do much, positive or negative, for jobs or the economy as a whole; but if jobs had declined, I would have taken him to task, so I have to congratulate him on the continued expansion. Those of you who were counting on a Trump Slump to help the Dems' chances...may need to look for something else.
I wasn't looking for a Trump Slump at all. This roaring economy was predicted by me well before Trump was elected and well before we even knew who the candidates would be in 2016. I even said it wouldn't matter who was elected President. The reason is simple...we had a HUGE downturn (Great Recession) from Oct. 2007- March 2009. Almost without fail, the further things drop, the higher and/or longer the recovery goes on. That coupled with Baby Boomers who stayed in the workforce longer because of it (leading to a mass exodus later on) were the reasons for this prediction. I wasn't alone in that prediction. Trump did his best to destroy a good thing with his stupid tariffs, but it is not surprising at all that the market has gone up and the unemployment rate is low. He did unnecessarily goose it with that stupid tax cut, but we would be about where we are now if he hadn't done that. It is no reflection of him, just as the big recovery under Obama was really no reflection of him either, and I said that at the time.
We're in a global economy, and short of dramatic moves by the President, there isn't much he/she can do to affect it.
