“We accomplished more than any other president has in the first two-and-a-half years of a presidency.”
— President Trump, in his 2020 campaign kickoff speech, June 18, 2019
Trump touted many accomplishments — record-shattering, history-making feats — in a speech officially kicking off his reelection campaign.
We’ve been keeping track and, despite what he regularly says, Trump’s his economic record is far more modest than he claimed.
Four years ago, Trump described an economyin dire straits — soaring unemployment rates, a negative GDP, disappearing manufacturing jobs, a stock market hurtling toward a crash. According to the president, all of those negative economic trends were reversed — once he was elected. Now, he holds up the economy as “the envy of the world.”
View the complete June 21 article by Meg Kelly on The Washington Post website here.