This article from Wolf Richter at Wolf Street has several retail sales charts which show that Trump didn't "build the greatest economy the world has ever seen" but was just the guy in charge the last three years of the comeback from the financial crisis of 2008.
In every case, growth began around 2009 and continued at basically the same pace through the Obama (2009-2016) and Trump years (2017-2020) until COVID (and the Trump administration's crappy response) killed it.
In addition the gas price chart shows that the price of gasoline was lower in Obama's last year than it was in the Trump years, again ... until COVID hit.
I've yet to see an economic chart showing a dramatic change inspired by Trump policies.
His economy claims are pure Trump BS.
A few more charts (also from Wolf Street) on the growth of the largest economic sectors. These start at 2013 but still show the growth was there before Trump.
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