“The power of tariffs being imposed on foreign lands that took advantage of the United States for decades and decades have enabled us to make great trade deals where there were none.”
What PolitiFact found
Whether Trump’s trade deals have been "great" is a matter of opinion, but a range of trade specialists told PolitiFact that Trump’s trade policy has, at a minimum, been less than successful.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 4 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 July 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Experts see few gains”.
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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