As a lot of people are comparing Obama's debt to Trump's projected debt, I wanted to make a quick comment. The projections such as the ones you see in this thread's, discuss change in projected debt, not total change in debt. There is a pretty big sizable difference between those two things, especially when you look at Obama's presidency.
Due to the state of the country when Obama came into office, between the War on Terror and the recession, our debt was skyrocketing, which is a large part of why national debt increased by so much over the course of his presidency (about $7tril if you account for all of his budgets). However, if you account for the impact that he actually had through legislation, Obama's debt contribution was actually about $1 trillion.
So what does this mean for Trump? Well a lot of Obama's debt was frontloaded so projections for the next 10 years are a lot lower than they were in 2008. That said, debt is still increasing. If it were to stay on the current path, debt would be at about $ 23 trillion in ten years. Trump's plans project to increase that by about $ 5 trillion, which means that total debt would increase by $ 8 trillion over the course of his presidency.
Saying that Trump's plan is just more of what we saw from Obama isn't really true, as Obama came in with rapidly increasing debt and made that a lot lower by the time he left (though worth noting that this was partly due to the deescalation of the war in Iraq as well as a natural bounce back of the economy, which is why his plans didn't "reduce debt") while Trump will be coming in with more slowly increasing debt and making that a lot higher by the time he leaves (assuming his plans pass).
Now what about Clinton's debt? Well pretty much all of her spending is actually covered by tax increases, so we are likely to remain on largely the same trajectory as we are on now. The deficit will continue to increase, but Clinton's impact on the debt will be around $0 (again, assuming her plans pass).
Sources: https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-under-obama-3306293
http://crfb.org/papers/promises-and-price-tags-preliminary-update







