President Obama inherited a far worse mess in 2009

What a pity President Trump wasn’t around in 2009 to learn what a real mess is. (“Trump: I inherited a mess,” Page 1A, Feb. 17).

Then incoming President Obama had to deal with: hundreds of thousands of American’s losing their jobs every month; tens of thousands losing their homes; an unwinnable war of choice in Iraq, and thousands of Wall Street bankers whining because they might not get their year-end bonuses earned by their “successful” 2008.

President Trump inherited the strongest economy in decades, albeit one in which the rich (like Trump and his Cabinet appointees) get richer, and the rest of us have to pick up their tab.

President Obama was, and is, a class act.

Our new Tic Tac President chooses to use a foreign-made confection to cover up the stench he’s responsible for. Sad!