>>All correct, though Trump *probably* wants people to forget that black unemployment rate was declining significantly in the last 5 years under the Obama administration. (It's certainly great that it continues to drop)

I googled and found pages of "fact checks" agreeing with you- which normally means that the opposite is true! Especially when nobody seems to want to post actual figures. So I dug out the figures that confirm a steady decline since 2011:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006

What the fact checkers don't mention is the controversial "mancession" asserting that black males lost hope and abandoned the search for non-existent work which explains part of the decline. There's no mancession in 2018, in fact there's labour shortages eg a national shortage of truck drivers and calls for more immigrants- which seems to rely on a belief that child-like black males can't be taught/relied upon to drive a truck. Seems to me there's a lot of complexity under the hood causing some commentators to focus on child poverty as a better index of social success than employment.

Meanwhile you may recall I always argued to give Obama a chance- and I also forgive Trump for celebrating record figures. Don't they say success is about accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative? Seems the MSM and enemy fact checkers are determined to deny success.

>>The cold truth is that Trump inherited a "better" economic situation in 2016 than Obama did in 2008.

Fair enough. Then he destroyed the economy by feeding tax cuts to the rich according to the same commentators. Except that despite chicken little, so far the tax cuts drive an economic boom with a lot of very happy small business people who always are the drivers of increasing employment- not the big corporations- and tend to invest in local community. I agree that sometimes the effects aren't seen/admitted until later and that sometimes a successor gets to claim credit- but your economy is on a roll and people need to make hay while the sun shines IMHO rather than moaning that every silver lining has a cloud.