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I'm pretty sure that I personally made no such characterizations.Using historical standards, that called the recession in early 2001, "Bush's economy" and the 1st Qtr economic nose-dive during Obama, "Obama's economy," we are living in Trump's economy.
In addition to how Presidents usually have little impact on the economy, that just doesn't make sense. Under ordinary circumstances, it takes at least a year for a President to enact policies that can affect the economy. Obama was a little different in that we were well into a crisis when he took office, and he very quickly built on Bush 43's reactions (TARP, Paulson/Bernanke moves). Even given that situation, it still took an extensive amount of time for his policies to have an effect.
Now, I do think that if Trump made statements to the effect of "we're gonna fix the US economy in our first 100 days" he can be held accountable for that highly irrational promise. But that's not the same thing as dinging him for GDP results 3 months into his term.