Lie July 25, 2017 · Interview · Economy
“So I’ll call, like, major ‚ major countries, and I’ll be dealing with the prime minister or the president. And I’ll say, how are you doing? ‘Oh, don’t know, don’t know, not well, Mr. President, not well.’ I said, well, what’s the problem? ‘Oh, GDP 9 percent, not well.’ And I’m saying to myself, here we are at like 1 percent, dying, and they’re at 9 percent and they’re unhappy. So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people.”
- Said
- July 25, 2017
- Where
- Interview
- Verdict
- Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
- Topic
- Economy
- Repeated
- 2 times in the Post’s database
- Source
- Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1511)