You are setting it up for Trump to never get credit for the good, only the bad. As long as unemployment keeps going down, you will continue to point to the graph and just chalk it up to the trend. You won't give Trump credit until something changes, meaning unemployment goes up. That's pretty convenient. You are operating under the faulty assumption that the trend naturally continues. It doesn't. It takes work to make a good trend continue. The last time the overall unemployment rate was this low was around the end of 2000 for about a year, and then you have to go back to 1970. You ask us to point to a policy to prove the unemployment rate is the result of Trump, but that's not how the economy works. Economies operate based on many policies, and even then that doesn't directly change the economic numbers as the economy still has to drive itself, which is actually a collection of many, many people and businesses making many transactions. You are trying to dumb down a really complicated system. So when I say things like Trump putting people to work on infrastructure, such as with the pipelines he approved, you are going to say that doesn't account for the full change. You'd be right that it doesn't, but it accounts for creating some of the jobs. It's not realistic to sit here and give you every policy that impacted jobs, though. Another way is that reduced regulations, such as the water regulation, has helped coal out. It's still a dying industry, but it can hang on a little longer. Another way is that just by talking about lowering taxes and things like that, it helps to create a good economic environment, which fosters jobs. Another way is that Trump personally contacted certain companies, and while the companies didn't keep all their jobs, many of the companies did keep some. But let me guess, naming all of these doesn't satisfy you, right? And yet you haven't named one way in which the trend was caused by Obama or even one way in which Obama helped to continue the trend, yet reasonable people do give Obama credit for the economy under his administration as well as for setting up what happened after. Trump deserves credit for what has happened under his watch as well.
