Lie August 22, 2020 · Interview · Jobs

“We had 160 million people working. We were never even close to that. We just about hit 160 million people working. Never happened before, never even close.”

Said
August 22, 2020
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Jobs
Repeated
188 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 21927)

Search every jobs lie → All 2020 lies

More lies about jobs

  1. Aug 23, 2020 · Interview“She's [Ivanka] created 15 million jobs. 15 million.”
  2. Aug 24, 2020 · Speech“We were up to 160 million jobs. We were never anywhere near that.”
  3. Aug 24, 2020 · Rally“We employed more than 160 million people prior to the plague coming in from China and now we're bringing it back again very, very quickly.”
  4. Aug 18, 2020 · Remarks“But the numbers that we have for unemployment and employment, frankly -- we had 160 million people working. We've never even been close to that.”
  5. Aug 28, 2020 · Rally“We had almost 160 million Americans working, we had never had numbers like that.”
  6. Sep 7, 2020 · Press conference“By the way, many plants are being built right now -- auto plants -- in Michigan, just like I said. They're being built in Ohio; they're being built in South Carolina, North Carolina.”