Lie February 25, 2019 · Remarks · Trade

“China is paying us, right now, billions and billions of dollars of tariffs a month. Every month, billions of dollars. I love it. Personally, I love it. But they're paying billions of dollars.”

Said
February 25, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
248 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8985)

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  1. Feb 28, 2019 · Press conference“You saw trade deficits went down last month and everyone’s trying to figure out why, well, we're taking a lot of tariff money. And it has reduced the trade deficit.”
  2. Mar 2, 2019 · Remarks“So the beauty is this. I have $250 billion more to put tariffs on. The numbers are staggering. Billions of dollars right now are pouring into our treasury.”
  3. Feb 19, 2019 · Remarks“We're taking in a lot of money coming into our Treasury from tariffs and various things, including the steel dumping.”
  4. Feb 18, 2019 · Speech“In the meantime, billions and billions of dollars are coming into our Treasury. It's very simple.”
  5. Feb 16, 2019 · Social post“Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!”
  6. Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We've been losing, on average, $375 billion a year with China. A lot of people think it's $506 billion. Some people think it's much more than that.”