How Trump 2.0's stock market stacks up with predecessors — SkimNews
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- Stock market returns soared during the first 20 months of Trump's second term but slightly underperformed the same 20-month window of his first term, per Financial Modeling Prep data charted by Erin Davis for Axios Visuals.
- Trump views the stock market as a proxy for the economy, per the article's 'why it matters' framing — a caveat the source text cuts off before completing.
Why it matters: Trump treats the market as a personal political scorecard, so even a modest lag against his own first-term record is a framing risk the piece flags before its analysis is cut off mid-thought.
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