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Presidents inherit economic circumstances, including unemployment rates, which are a lagging indicator.
Clinton took office at the tail end of a modest recession, while Bush came in at the end of the '90s boom. Obama's term began amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
And Trump entered the Oval Office as the long, slow recovery from the Great Recession finally began to show signs of economic normality — the March unemployment rate, the most recently published in the first 100 days, was at a postcrisis low
Thanks o for handing trump these low unemployment numbers and making him look good.