First Year Of Job Growth under President Trump Was Below the growth of President Obama's Last Four Years 2013: 2.302 million 2014: 2.998 millon 2015: 2.713 million 2016: 2.240 million 2017: 2.188 million Job Growth began in 2010 https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7CZrM7cRxpY/W7da87rXlwI/AAAAAAAAwJs/bHkjHfAbyLgQK6p7-Vbi5F_jO7RxtUgqgCLcBGAs/s1600/PayrollSept2018.PNG Economy shows steady trend since 2010 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 Any economic chart you look at will tell the same story.  We had a recession that began in 2007 which became a full on financial crisis in September 2008 when the whole economy was at risk. This crisis was global in nature. (Without interventions it would have been another depression.). The lowest point was January 2009    In 2010 we began the recovery with positive numbers every month since then.  The drop over the cliff was much steeper than the climb back (January 2009 saw 800000 jobs lost in a single month) When you look at charts since 2010, the trend of the past two years is right in line with the six years