runner,

Here's a fact check on the US employment figures, the extent to which Trump has influenced them, and chances that his policies could have made any difference this early in the piece, given the expected lag (I even made sure the source was conservative for you):

http://fortune.com/2017/08/10/donald-trump-jobs-numbers-fact-check

Dear runner,

I certainly have seen the latest US employment figures and this first full year under Trump have seen below average employment growth compared each of Obama's last six years.

It is too early to be definitive but it does look as though the rot has started to set in particularly if you further break the figures down into six month blocks. While the last two months are still marked as preliminary the period from July to Dec 2017 was the first time new jobs has dropped below 1,000,000 in 12 blocks.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

Yes runner I might be mistaken in my calculations but it appears your idol has delivered the weakest job creation figures in seven years. Might be time to stop licking his boots for a moment if you have it in you.

Idolatry is a bitch and non-biblical from memory.

Luckily, we are now confident that Trump is a stable genius. Not too many geniuses proclaim that they are geniuses, except in a sort of self-deprectatory way, having a go at themselves. Clearly, they're not all that stable. So at last, we have a stable genius in charge of the US. And to a large extent, of the world.

CHU.

For the kiddies, that means: Christ help us.

Runner, speaking of which: Thomas Alva Edison experimented with two thousand materials to find a filament for an electric light bulb, and failed each time. Someone suggested that he must have felt a complete failure. 'No', he said, "I now know of two thousand ways which don't work."

Hilary wouldn't have worked. Trump obviously isn't working. There are a multitude of ways which don't work. We keep looking, like Edison.

Will we find anybody better in 2020 ?

Michelle Obama perhaps ?

Joe

The memes have already starting rolling in thick and fast:

http://i.imgur.com/POqvTFD.jpg

... for those of us young enough to remember the '90s cartoon characters, Beavis and Butthead.

(No, that wasn't a typo.)

Dont worry boys i have many flaws but no chance of making Trump an idol. Just refreshing we have not got those who hate Israel and are part of the gw deceit in powe. I think you can see clearly from the tantrums from those worshipping Hilary what idolatry looks like. What a bunch of self entitled brats many of which now cant suck on the public purse through lies. Yeah Trump is fallen just like you and me but what a breath of fresh air after Obama.

Runner,

Oy.

As I tried to point out above, there are rarely just two options: A and B, A being Hillary and B being Trump in this case. Both are crap. There may be more than two thousand kinds of crap. There's a lot of it in the world, which is not just either/or, one thing OR the other, good/bad.

Surely there must be many who would make better US presidents in 2020 ? Surely.

Live in hope.

Joe