Lie September 20, 2018 · Interview · Trade

“Our farmers are great, and our farmers are starting to do very well again.”

Said
September 20, 2018
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
21 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5656)

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  1. Sep 26, 2018 · Remarks“You look at what's happened to soybean prices over the last five years before the election. They went down 50 percent.”
  2. Sep 26, 2018 · Press conference“U.S. Steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants. Nucor is opening up plants. Billion-dollar plants, in some cases. So what's happening with the steel industry is very exciting to me. It's being rebuilt overnight.”
  3. Oct 1, 2018 · Press conference“[NAFTA] lost vast amounts of money, and lost 4.1 million manufacturing jobs, and 1 in 4 auto jobs. Lost about 25 percent of our auto jobs -- even more than that.”
  4. Oct 1, 2018 · Press conference“U.S. Steel is building eight or nine plants. They're expanding plants.”
  5. Oct 1, 2018 · Press conference“Over the last five years, we've averaged $800 billion-a-year loss on trade. How dumb is that?”
  6. Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“Well, you have to remember [farmers have] been worried for 15 years. For 15 years they haven't been doing well and for 15 years, they've really been hurt by the trade practices of other countries.”