“The U.S. has received promises of investments totaling $18 trillion to $22 trillion since January.”
What PolitiFact found
The White House website lists $9.6 trillion in investments, half of the figure President Donald Trump cites. But that $9.6 trillion includes aspirational, multi-year goals, and future purchases or sales of products, rather than only capital investments. The White House’s total includes large commitments from governments such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, whose pledges are multiple times larger than their countries’ annual gross domestic product, which calls the pledges’ feasibility i...
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 9 December 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 December 2025. 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
- politico.comhttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/donald-trump-full-interview-transcript-00681693?…
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