“We’ve totally rebuilt the military — $2.5 trillion. ... We’ve invested the $2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world.”
What FactCheck.org found
That’s approximately the total for defense budgets from 2017 to 2020, but the cost of purchasing new military equipment was 20% of that.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 25 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 July 2020, 7 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
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-fincantieri-marin…
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