However his administration presided over an overall economy that was incredibly weak and anemic. The income growth for Americans was abysmal. American median Income grew 1.6% while under Trump it's increases 6.8%.
Uh, no.
Real Median Household Income in the United States
Median Household Income in the United States
Even using the real / inflation-adjusted numbers that skew in favor of Trump, you still don't get that. Eyeballing it, it looks like you compared the Obama's average annualized growth rate to Trump's cumulative growth.
But let's do some math:
Using the years 2009, 2017, and 2018 as the start & end times of the respective administrations (2019 data isn't available yet and even this isn't fair to Obama since he didn't take office until almost Q2 2009), then according to those charts:
On the real income, Obama went from 58,400 to 62,626 over 8 years and Trump went from 62,626 to 63,179 over 1 year. (again, 2019 isn't available yet) If you plug those numbers into
Investopedia's compound annual growth rate calculator, you'll see that Obama's annualized growth rate was 0.88% and that Trump's annualized growth rate is, coincidentally, also 0.88%.
And that's even accounting for the fact that the recession caused incomes to fall during Obama's first few years in office. If we start at 2012 when things started to rebound, the average annual growth of real wages over Obama's last 5 years in office was 2.33%.
And due to the lousy wages Obama had record numbers of people on food stamps.
You mean that once-in-a-lifetime global recession he inherited?
So overall we see who has really helped Americans.
Yeah, we do. Except, you got your math wrong, so you credited it to the wrong guy.
ETA: To harp on this a bit more, do none of you guys ever bother to google any of these charts before making these claims? If so, do you know how to read them? This is barely middle-school level math and you guys are virtually
always wrong about it. All of this propaganda you guys keep repeating about Trump's magical economic turnaround just isn't true. The facts are right there, just a few keystrokes away and none of you bother to look at them.