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I'm just going to say it flat out. If the economy was "good" under Trump, it was because of Obama. If the economy was "bad" under Biden, it was because of Trump (and closely Trump-adjacent factors). And if the economy is "good" again under whoever becomes President in 2024[1], it will be because of Biden.
Biden has done probably the best he could do (which, if you ignore the dishonest braying of the GQP, isn't actually too awfully terrible) with the utter shitshow dumped on him by Trump, by COVID (Trump's response to which was utterly abysmal and clearly made things far worse than they ever needed to be), and by Putin deciding to invade Ukraine in the middle of Biden's term. (Which was indeed very likely a partial factor into the timing of it, when it could have happened much earlier, while Trump was POTUS, with Trump's full support, rest of the world be damned. But that would've made Trump lookbadeven worse, and why would Putin want to directly make his installed flunky look badeven worse than he already looked? Better to make Biden look bad, rather than his own asset, Trump. And the invasion of Ukraine was, in fact, probably the biggest contributor to all the rampant inflation, in the US and elsewhere, that followed, which too many people in the US now ridiculously blame solely on Biden. I'm sure that was just a side benefit for Putin, though.)
TL;DR gist: Trump takes credit for Obama, and Trump blames Biden for Trump's own rancid bullshit. And if Trump, heavens forbid, wins again in 2024, he will, of course, take full credit for Biden.
(EDIT) See also: this. Why do so many people wrongly believe the GQP is better with the economy, again? Oh, right. (/EDIT)
At least, to the extent that any POTUS can directly affect the economy, anyway, which I don't think is actually all that much.
[1] - Hopefully not Trump, naturally.
Biden has done probably the best he could do (which, if you ignore the dishonest braying of the GQP, isn't actually too awfully terrible) with the utter shitshow dumped on him by Trump, by COVID (Trump's response to which was utterly abysmal and clearly made things far worse than they ever needed to be), and by Putin deciding to invade Ukraine in the middle of Biden's term. (Which was indeed very likely a partial factor into the timing of it, when it could have happened much earlier, while Trump was POTUS, with Trump's full support, rest of the world be damned. But that would've made Trump look
TL;DR gist: Trump takes credit for Obama, and Trump blames Biden for Trump's own rancid bullshit. And if Trump, heavens forbid, wins again in 2024, he will, of course, take full credit for Biden.
(EDIT) See also: this. Why do so many people wrongly believe the GQP is better with the economy, again? Oh, right. (/EDIT)
At least, to the extent that any POTUS can directly affect the economy, anyway, which I don't think is actually all that much.
[1] - Hopefully not Trump, naturally.
