“Consumer confidence is way up.”
What PolitiFact found
Three traditional metrics on consumer confidence in the U.S. economy show it’s low today, and in at least one case, close to all-time lows. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending has fallen during President Donald Trump’s second term. Retail sales are robust, but with a major asterisk: Experts say this could reflect higher prices from Trump’s second-term tariffs rather than consumer optimism.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 4 May 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2026, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-small-business-summit-…
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