'It was my economy': Obama blasts Trump's 'hazy memory' during Harris rally appearance

Former President Barack Obama took aim at his successor, Donald Trump's, economic record — and "hazy memory" — as he took the stage during Kamala Harris' rally in Pittsburgh Thursday.
"Donald Trump's plan is to do what he did last time, which was give another massive tax cut to billionaires and big corporations," Obama told the crowd. "And the reason some people think, 'I don’t know, I remember that economy when [Trump] first came in being pretty good.’ Yeah, it was pretty good. Because it was my economy."
As Harris supporters cheered, the 44th president continued, "We had had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him. It wasn't something he did."
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Obama then took aim at his predecessor, ex-President George W. Bush and his Republican administration.
"I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess the Republicans left me the last time," the Democratic leader emphasized, before offering a reminder on Trump's economic record: "So, just in case everybody has a hazy memory — he didn't do nothing."
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“Some people think, ‘I don’t know, I remember that economy when [Trump] first came in being pretty good.’ Yeah, it was pretty good. Because it was my economy.”
— Barack Obama, campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/1EZXKbBMj4
— The Recount (@therecount) October 10, 2024