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To me, a president owns the economy when they either 1. Do something big that can affect the economy. or 2. They have been in office for a little while (9-12 months).
Obama signed and enacted the stimulus and bailouts (although they got started under the Republican he continued and increased them) so he took ownership of the economy right out the gate. Trump hasn't done much. He killed a few regulations and gave some tax money to a few companies to save some jobs, but he hasn't done much other than talk up the economy (which can be good for it. I have always believed Presidents get too much credit for a good economy and too much blame for a bad one) so by default, I feel, the economy will really be his between now and the end of the year.
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