[Makarov]

Originally Posted by ThePrince

I keep bringing this up and get called a Trumper, but what a lot of people want to ignore is that prior to COVID, the economy was extremely strong under Trump.

Even taking into account 2020 and the massive economic impact that had, real median household income grew 6.3% under Trump. Obama also did well before that, his second term had growth of 7.8%. But if COVID hadn't happened, that number would have been higher and likely much closer to Obama's. You simply can't ignore that the economy was doing great under Trump prior to COVID. This includes 2019, just prior to COVID when real median household income grew at 6.7% that year alone, which is the single highest year of growth in the last 40 years.

Now you can try and argue that this performance was due to a lot of Obama's policies, but then you lose the ability to say that anything Trump did hurt the middle or lower class - you can't have that both ways. In my opinion, you can't really argue that three years into Trump's term when you see the highest real household income growth in a long time, that Trump had nothing to do with it.

I don't follow your logic/reasoning here...