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You got it, boss 
The market's performance since Trump was elected is good, but far from exceptional. And it seems unwise to keep making this point. The market started doing really well around this time in Obama's first term; a few more months and Trump's market performance could trail his
And ... with the market's decline today Trump slips behind Reagan in the rankings. No. 8 out of 14 for which the Bloomberg terminal has S&P data (left out Ford because he wasn't elected and wasn't in office long enough)
I use total return instead of price because in olden times a much higher share of stock market returns came from dividends, so a pure price comparison would be unfair to Hoover, FDR, Truman etc.
Anyway, this is a silly metric by which to judge presidents. But since the current president is obsessed with it, might as well do it right
