evidence: "They showed me the clip of Trump saying he wanted the economy to crash so he could gain politically," Biden wrote Jan. 11 on X. "Says he doesn’t want to be Hoover. Here's the thing: He already is. He’s the first president since Hoover to lose jobs while in office. Some record." We checked the numbers and found that Trump is, as Biden said, "the first president since Hoover to lose jobs while in office." [...] During Trump’s presidency, the U.S. lost a net 2.7 million jobs.