The December jobs report just came out, and it chronicles eleven months of job growth since Trump took office. Over those eleven months, 1.84 million new jobs were added, for a monthly average of 167 thousand jobs.
Let’s compare that to the last eleven months of job growth under Obama. Over those eleven months, 2.09 million new jobs were added, for a monthly average of 190 thousand jobs.
So job growth at the end of the Obama presidency was 14% greater that job growth during the beginning of the Trump presidency, when an equal time period is considered.
So Trumps job growth lags Obama’s.
It also lags his own promise for job creation. He promised 25 million new jobs over a ten year period, for an average of 208 thousand jobs per month. So far, he has achieved job growth at only 80% of the rate he promised.