He kept a running tally of stock market records — 135 by his last count, on Dec. 19. He personalized the rally, referring to “my stock market gains.”In some ways, Mr. Trump, with his fixation on the markets, has resembled old-school corporate chieftains like Sandy Weill. By taking credit, over and over, for the stock market’s record run, Mr. Trump arguably set himself up to be blamed for its record fall. By that measure, stock markets are still up on his watch, though not by much.) “If you politically live by the stock market, you can politically die by the stock market,” said Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington.

Source: New York Times March 20, 2020 20:03 UTC