Trump's stock market. Ex. A of a successful presidency?

if only you had a retirement account, you would be very pleased with the market during the last 3 years. Sorry you missed out.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/26/trumps-stock-market-rally-is-far-outpacing-past-us-presidents.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-11/how-the-s-p-500-has-performed-under-donald-trump

Lol. I do, and indeed I have benefited, especially since I was paying attention closely enough to the market to re-balance my assets around the time of the two major market dips in Jan. 2018 and Nov.-Dec. 2018.

I live comfortably, but money isn't everything.

so, you claim to have benefitted, yet criticize the fact that it's been better under Trump's 3 years than under obies 8? Strange logic there

I'm saying we can count the stock market as a point in Trump's favor, for now -- but: does it outweigh all the other downsides of his presidency?

The Ukraine monkey business, the undermining of our alliances, the erosion of our political discourse, the total failure to get any major legislative priorities accomplished (even infrastructure, a theoretical point of commonality between Trump and Democrats), the failure to act whatsoever on climate change and the rolling back of other environmental protections, and the fact that Trump's most rabid supporters are now calling for hangings of Democrats?

For me, it doesn't. Money isn't everything.

Anyone who isn't financially better off now than they were under Obama must be an idiot.

To clarify, this is a chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) of the past 3 years.

Source: https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years