Hey Mr. HILTZIK.... Funny guy... Now Suck One!
To be fair, Hiltzik was talking about sustained growth. In the excerpt above, he said:
The U.S. hasn't had sustained real annual growth (that is, over inflation) of better than 3% since the 1990s, with a brief spurt in 2004 and 2005. Making up the difference from 2% to more than 3% looks like a pipe dream.
The following graph shows GDP growth under Obama and Trump:
The numbers can be seen at http://econdataus.com/gdp_growth_18q2.html. As can be seen, Trump has not yet achieved GDP growth of 3 percent over 4 consecutive quarters. Even the last four quarters, including the current one with 4.1% annualized growth, had a growth of just 2.8 percent.