No, they're all objective facts. You just want to put your own spin on them.
No, they are not objective facts. It is merely spin with the goal of creating credit where little to none is deserved. I countered your tired right-wing propaganda with actual facts.
Look, guy. We can go back and forth over this all day.
Not really, especially considering with what you started with.
None of it changes the fact that Trump maintained strong and steady economic growth, and job creation, throughout his term.
....except for that 2.3% GDP growth in 2019, huh? Odd you people never want to go there while promoting the absurd lie that Trump waves a magic wand for you. No single President can "maintain" anything in regards to economy. The American economy is built within a global economy in which no one individual can create. But a President can disrupt and plant the seeds for future recession, which is exactly what Trump did with his 2017 Tax-Cut and Jobs Act. An artificial 2.9% GDP in 2018, dropped drastically to a more natural 2.3% in 2019? That constitutes a steady growth? I guess you missed where the economists began warning of a future recession as early as 2018, well before Trump exacerbated economic troubles in 2020.
He also managed to make net gains with regards to real wages for the first time in about ten years, which Obama never managed to do, and many of his policies arguably worked against.
This is true, but
doesn't go back to any Trump initiative. Just another occurrence in which Trump took credit.
To which the US contributed the lion's share, as we do most of our "coalition" operations.
Hence, "US-led." Welcome to our military history.
Trump also removed Obama's ridiculously restrictive ROEs, which greatly sped the progress of the campaign against ISIS.
Trump did allow the military to speed up the mission, but there was no change in ROEs against IS. Trump just gave the military free reign to make decisions without having to deal with the restrictions of having to call the White House first (Obama). I don't see how Trump defeated IS anymore than Obama killed Bin Laden.
Or do you mean the change in
rules of engagement in Afghanistan orchestrated by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in October 2017?
Tax and regulation cuts, and the gutting of the ACA's mandate.
Oh, definitely not. The GDP record is as follows:
2008: -0.1%
2009: -2.5%
2010: 2.6%
2011: 1.6%
2012: 2.2%
2013: 1.8%
2014: 2.5%
2015: 2.9%
2016: 1.6%
2017: 2.4%
2018: 2.9%
2019: 2.3%
Note, that GDP looks much the same between 2014 and 2019. In fact, the GDP for 2017 was lower than 2014 and 2015, wasn't it?
Note, that 2.9% is the highest that Trump
and Obama saw. Didn't Trump routinely declare that anything less than 3.0% is a failure?
Note, that the 2.9% GDP of 2015 was not artificial, whereas Trump's Tax-Cut and Jobs Act created a temporary cash grab for the wealthy that immediately saw a drastic drop the following year. Note, that the low 1.6% GDP of 2016 was the result of oil price plunges and other factors. As the global economy steadied, the GDP went right back up to 2.4% in 2017.
Note, that last year's 2.3% was lower than five prior years; and that this was before COVID.
So much for Trump, the bankrupt-prone economic genius.
And gutting ACA did nothing for the economy either way. It deals with debt. Trump's massive reduction of government revenue, coupled with significant increases in government spending, created $10 trillion more in debt. ACA didn't do this during Trump's reign. And keep in mind that Bush's debt goes back to the War on Terror and nonsensical tax-cuts. Obama's debt goes back to inheriting the Great Recession and his ACA. But, Trump? No American program at all to account for his massive increase in debt. Just a bill that the middle-class was expected to pay after their temporary pay-off expired.
And gutting ACA did a lot of good for all those Americans who were fired from their health coverage this year during a pandemic, before corporations stuck their hands out for another GOP-led bailout, huh? In the end, gutting ACA merely added to the strain that Trump exacerbated. It did nothing for the economy. But gutting it met with dimwitted partisan approval, didn't it?
