He's a propagandist who believes his audience is morons. A.  No President has anywhere near 50% impact on the economy.  It's always other factors. B.  Trump came into office in the middle of Jan 2017.  We have the job data for the other 18 months  3.43 million jobs were created. For the 18 months prior to Jan 2017,  3.70 million jobs were created. He's averaging less job growth than the years before he took over. We have had 94 months of job growth in the US, 80% before Trump took over. Trump is basically staying on trend, at a slightly lower rate than recent years.