Former President Barack Obama argued on Thursday that the economy under the Trump administration was only good because former President Donald Trump inherited Obama’s economy.
Obama made the comment while stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, the first stop on his battleground state “blitz” for the Democratic nominee.
“The reason some people think, ‘I remember that economy when [Trump] first came in being pretty good.’ — Yeah, it was pretty good because it was my economy,” Obama told the crowd of Harris supporters. “We had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him. It wasn’t something he did.”
Obama then ripped former President George W. Bush’s administration, saying, “I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time.”
BREAKING: Obama takes credit for the booming economy under…
