“So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration ... to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades.”
What FactCheck.org found
When Trump took office as president in January 2017, the reserve held 695.1 million barrels of crude oil. The last full week before he left office in January 2021, it held 638.1 million barrels, or about 8% less.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former president of the United States) made this claim around 31 March 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 April 2022, 1 day 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
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