“You see the number today? 33.1 GDP. The biggest in the history of our country by almost triple, right? Almost triple. Now it’s very much bigger than any GDP we’ve ever had.”
What Washington Post found
Trump’s figure of 33.1% is an annualized figure and is pretty misleading in this context. The GDP was 7.4% higher than in the second quarter, short of the 10% needed. But for the economy to recover all that w
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 29 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 November 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
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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