That 2.9% Trump growth rate is massively misleading by the way. Trump had one 2.9% year or growth and then one 2.1% year like Obama. The extra point eight percent for one year was down to a tax cut and a massive increase in government spending. Even with the tax cut and continued huge spending increase he's now settled down to a two percent growth rate. So he's doing worse than Obama was (Obama also had a year of 2.9% growth despite the GOP cutting deficit spending when the economy actually needed it and no tax cut.) This is interesting reading for the unfortunately few people interested in this:





https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/o...age-years.html