Originally Posted by
HumblePi
Another "Obama economic mess", what the heck are you talking about, or do you know what you're talking about? Obama inherited a catastrophic financial disaster from the Republicans. The big hedge fund banks were bailed out and sold off U.S. subprime mortgage debt to countries like Belgium.
The country was not struggling financially when Trump took office. Absolutely not. Trump inherited a booming economy with low unemployment and steady job growth, an easy win on day one, and he quickly claimed credit. Early in his presidency, Trump boasted about job gains starting from his election onward, crediting Obama's final months as his own.
The U.S. economy was struggling when Obama took office in 2009. He inherited a dismal economy in the middle of a deep recession that lasted 18 months, a recession that many people thought would become a depression, and was able to turn it around in the first years of his presidency. The U.S. is now its 10th year of economic growth, and in its longest period of growth with 95 straight months of job creation. The bulk of that decade of growth was under Obama’s presidency, and can fairly be credited to him.