The last time a quarterly real gdp figure came in close to 10%, outside the grotesquely distorted pandemic hysteria, was in 2Q1983 at 9.4%.
It's been all down hill since then.
Our T.S. Eliot Hollow Man Economy continues to die, not with a bang but a whimper.
The compound annual growth rates show this:
2Q1947-2Q1984: 3.64%
2Q1984-2Q2017: 2.67%
2Q2017-2Q2026: 2.46%.
The era inaugurated by Trump underperforms the era inaugurated by Reagan by 7.9%, which in its turn underperformed the post-war era by 26.6%.
The Trump era underperforms the post-war by 32.4%.
They have no idea how to make America great again.
They are fools, fops, idiots, and sots, stuffed with chaff, straw, and feathers.
