“After years of devastating budget cuts and a military that was totally depleted from these endless wars, we have invested over 2 trillion — trillion, that’s with a T — dollars in the most powerful fighting force, by far, on the planet Earth.”
What Washington Post found
The president is exaggerating his “investment” in the military, especially when he suggests that he has spent more than $2 trillion on new equipment. That's the number for the total military budget
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 13 June 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 June 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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