Read our entire fact-check of President Trump's SOTU address here:
It’s just a fact: President Trump gets a lot of his facts wrong, willfully or not. In his third State of the Union address, he made a number of erroneous or misleading claims.“Since my election, we have created 7 million new jobs,” Trump said, adding that such success was possible because he’d “reversed the failed economic policies” of the Obama administration.Some 6.7 million new jobs were created during Trump’s first 35 months in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The manufacturing sector actually has been in a recession; 12,000 such jobs were lost in December alone.While 12,000 “factories” might suggest large plants with many workers, many of these so-called manufacturing establishments are small businesses that employ fewer than five people. For perspective, in that same time frame, the share of household wealth held by the top 1% reached more than 32%, the highest share in three decades.Trump boasted of a “groundbreaking new agreement with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property, bring billions and billions of dollars into our treasury, and open vast new markets for products made and grown right here in the U.S.A.
After taking office, Trump pushed hard to repeal the law, cheering a Republican effort in Congress to pass a measure that would have eliminated both that guarantee and federal aid that has allowed millions of low- and moderate-income Americans to get insurance coverage.by Texas and other Republican-led states to eliminate the law, often called Obamacare.
Production was rising steadily before he was elected, and the U.S. has been the leading producer of natural gas since 2009.“To protect the environment,” Trump said, the nation would join the “One Trillion Trees Initiative,” a public-private initiative to plant trees around the world. U.S. officials have not provided any evidence of that, and senior members of Trump’s national security team have said they never saw specific intelligence about planned attacks on four embassies, including in Baghdad, as Trump has claimed.
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