A pet peeve of mine as an economist is giving too much credit to the current quarterback , er...President for [economic] wins and too much blame for [economic] losses. To give a better picture of what's going on with the economy, here are some graphs of the past decade of select economic data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
I'll leave it to others to draw conclusions.
1) Median Household Income in the U.S. 2007-2017:
2) The Dow Jones Industrial Average 2007-2017:
3) Initial Jobless Claims 2007-2017:
4) Consumer Price Index 1950-2017:
5) Gross Domestic Product 2007-2017
5b) GDP Growth Rate (quarterly--seasonally adjusted) 2007-2017:
6) Unemployment 2007-2017: