“[W]e were richest, the richest, relatively, from, think of this, from 1870 to 1913 ... because we collected tariffs from foreign countries.”
Donald Trump
U.S. President. CPAC. Claim dated 22 Feb 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
In terms of the overall U.S. economy, real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product per capita is many times higher today than it was during the period cited by the president.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (U.S. President) made this claim around 22 February 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2025, 17 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.
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