Lie May 17, 2018 · Remarks · Trade

“We lost $800 billion on trade last year, if you add it all up, of which China was around the $500 billion mark. So we lost $800 billion. Can you believe that? Is that an amazing thing to even think about? We lost $800 billion on trade. We're not going to be doing that any longer.”

Said
May 17, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
49 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3215)

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