Go to Article
Excerpt from www.politifact.com
Former President Donald Trump repeated a bevy of inaccurate claims on the economy during an interview with WGAL-TV, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, television station.
Here is a rundown.
Trump policies “created the greatest, strongest economy in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world.”
Economists have previously told PolitiFact that this is False.
The strongest evidence in favor of this assertion, at least in the U.S. context, is the unemployment rate. On Trump’s watch, the unemployment rate fell to levels untouched since the early 1950s.
However, the annual increases in gross domestic product — the sum of a country’s economic activity — were broadly similar under Trump to what they were during the final six years under his predecessor, Barack Obama. And GDP growth under Trump was well below that of previous presidents.
About The Author
