re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump is a master at creating the illusion of wealth and prosperity where none exist, or claiming credit for what is not his due.
This is why I am unfortunately all but sure he will be able to pull off enough economic sleigh-of-hand to convince voters that he is rebuilding the economy and secure his re-election.
Much like Dubya convinced the masses that the economy was “booming” in 2004, 4 years before it utterly crashed in a way that wingnuts to this day insist was totally not his fault…until he went ahead and signed that bank bailout, when they were convinced that letting multi-billion dollar banks collapse would actually help the economy.