evidence: Most of those jobs (57%) would return before Trump left office. But he ended his presidency with an economy that had 2.7 million fewer jobs than when he started — becoming the first president in modern times to experience a net loss of jobs over his time in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has monthly employment figures dating to 1939. [...] Nearly 1.4 million manufacturing jobs were lost in March and April 2020. When Trump left office, there were 178,000 fewer people employed in manufacturing than when he became president. That followed a net decrease of 195,000 under Obama. [...] Even before the pandemic, coal mining jobs were on the decline under Trump. There were 50,800 coal mining jobs in January 2017, when Trump became president. But at the end of 2019, there were 48,000 such jobs — a decline of 2,800. The job losses continued in early 2020 and accelerated during the pandemic — dropping to a new low of 37,100 in April 2020.