Rigged for Hillary wrote:
After Trump's first full year, we will revisit the annual GDP. Deal? Until then, Obama is still the only post-Depression president who never delivered a 3% annual GDP.
Credit and blame for how the economy is doing never should go to a sitting president. If we want to play that game, then Bush handed Obama the Great Recession, and Obama then ended it and oversaw unprecedented stock market growth the last 7 years of his presidency. We are in a global economy, and what a US President does has very little to do with the overall shape of that. Trump certainly hasn't done anything to move the needle in a positive direction.
And, if we are going to say things were bad under Obama, let me tell you, I would gladly take another Obama-like 7-8 years. I made more money than I ever have under Obama, and because of the stock market meteoric rise while he was in office, I am far ahead of my financial goals at this point in my life. I had planned to retire at age 60, but it is conceivable that I might be able to do it at age 55 now...all due to how things went for me financially under Obama.