Trump Says It’s His Economy Now, Faces a Tough Job Selling It

Donald Trump says the US economy is finally his. Now he’ll have to defend it.

Early in his second term the president’s team said it could take a year to assume ownership of the economy. On Super Bowl Sunday a couple of weeks back, Trump announced: “We’re there now.” But selling the country on that message – in tonight’s State of the Union address, and then over months of midterm election campaigning – will be a daunting task.

Voters apparently don’t agree with Trump’s claim, repeated Monday, that the country is enjoying the “greatest economy” ever. A recent Washington Post-ABC ...