Originally Posted by kane

You do understand that Obama was handed a cratering economy that was shedding jobs at a rate of 800,000 per month, right?

Here's a graph showing the job losses and gains.

The first year under Obama sucked as the recession was still playing out, but in early 2010 it turned around and we have seen nothing but job growth since then.

In short, Obama was handed an economy on the brink of collapse, Trump was handed an economy that was doing pretty well.