Joe: This Is A Recovery That Began 11 Years Ago | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Today marks the beginning of the end, the beginning of what we must do to create jobs for Americans struggling in the wake of layoffs, the beginning of what we must do to provide relief to families worried about not being able to pay next year's bills. month are the beginning of the first steps to lay a firmer foundation for our economy, paving the way to long-term growth and prosperity back in 2009, President Obama outlined plans for long-term economic growth eleven

years

later, The unemployment rate is down, the stock market is up and President Trump is furious on Twitter.

He is not happy because it is good for America. He should be happy because the United States is doing well domestically. I think so. I'm happy for America. Good

morning

, is everyone happy because the United States has done well in the last 11

years

? you'd think he would be, but he's upset because it's Obama welcome to Morning Joe, it's Tuesday, February 18 with us, we have MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle, respondent, the surprised winning columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post and analyst MSNBC politician Eugene Robinson, USA Financial Times national editor Edward Luce is with us and Priorities USA president Cecil is also joining us, so Mika, the facts of the facts and the Facts are stubborn things.

I think John Adams may have said it at the beginning. Ronald Reagan also loves to talk about how. the facts were stubborn and here or the facts that the Recovery Act was signed 11 years ago we have had 11 years of uninterrupted economic growth that started and most of it was through the Obama administration and if we just take the three years that Donald Trump has been in office, you take that period of time and compare it to Barack Obama's last three years, but by almost every measure, Barack Obama's economy was much stronger than Donald Trump's economy and the fascinating thing is that The media is out there all the time.

They've been doing it for years, talking about parroting what Donald Trump says about how good the economy has been. Yes,

this

is a

recovery

that started 11 years ago and if you just want to look at economic growth, you know why Donald Trump. he promises four five six percent in terms of GDP economic growth. If you look at the last ten presidents and their GDP growth over the course of their administrations, six out of ten of those presidents, according to Axios yesterday and well, according to government statistics, actually had stronger economies than Donald. Trump, let me say that one more time, just for the people in the media who keep parroting what Donald Trump says is the strongest economy in history.

Six of the last ten presidents have had stronger economies, higher economic growth, higher GDP, higher GDP growth than Donald Trump, which means that once again Donald Trump is in the bottom half of his class, it's something that is very familiar thanks for visiting MSNBC on YouTube and be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on the biggest stories of the day and you can click on any of the videos around us to see more from Morning Joe and MSNBC. Thanks so much for looking.