OOPS...Press Sec Leavitt reveals another Trump lie
Last Thursday Trump claimed that he has acquired “
$17 trillion” in investments during an eight-month period. He called it a “record" — despite the total U.S. gross domestic product, which measures the size of the economy, amounting to a little over $30 trillion as of late August.
And we did $17 trillion of investment coming in, a lot of it is because of tariffs
But...during her press briefing today, Leavitt claimed that Trump has secured
“nearly $9 trillion”
in U.S. investment since the start of his second term — which she stated is “nearly nine times more” than under former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Even her prognostication of the future doesn't match up to Trump
“We expect that number to be upwards of $15 trillion very soon,”
Leavitt said, as she pointed to Trump’s “mission to restore America as the manufacturing superpower of the world."