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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'...