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Even minus COVID, more jobs were added under Obama and Biden than Trump, bigly

I've previously broken down, via the Bureau of Labor statistics, how much better the economies were and are under Presidents Obama and Biden than it was under Donald Trump.

At this, the only response I've received from Trumpers is:

"COVID! Trump had the best economy in history until COVID and all the jobs under Biden are just the ones which were lost during it! COVID! COVID! COVID!"

Never mind the fact Trump ignored the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu for roughly a month and millions more lives would be significantly/permanently impacted as a result, but I digress. I'll play their game.

Donald Trump was in office for 3 years before COVID struck the U.S.

Here were the jobs numbers by year:
2/17-1/18: 2.031M
2/18-1/19: 2.395M
2/19-1/20: 1.983M
Total: 6.409M

Let's contrast that with Obama's final 3 years in the Oval Office:

2/14-1/15: 3.011M
2/15-1/16: 2.634M
2/16-1/17: 2.440M
Total: 8.085M

In other words, nearly 1.7M more jobs were created in Obama's final 3 years than in Trump's first 3. Obama's worst year (2.440M) was still better than Trump's best year (2.395M).

So, to say the economy under Trump was the best in U.S. history, even before COVID, is comical.

Moving onto President Biden. The jobs lost during COVID were fully recovered as of the May, 2022 jobs report. In the 23 months since then, 6.358M jobs have been added to the economy. Let me repeat that. In Trump's first 36 months as "president," 6.409M jobs were added. In Biden's last 23 months as President, 6.358M have been added.

So, here's the monthly jobs breakdown:

Obama's final 3 years: 224,583 per month
Trump's first 3 years: 178,028 per month
Biden's last 23 months: 276,435 per month

Even if we were to remove COVID from the equation (which we shouldn't do, considering how badly Trump handled the situation), the economies under Presidents Obama and Biden have been much stronger than the economy ever was under Trump.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

https://statista.com/chart/24363/number-of-jobs-lost-since-february-2020/
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