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Donald Trump stated on November 22, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

“I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my ‘political career.’”

By Louis Jacobson • November 24, 2025

Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2025 in an interview on CNBC:

Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election.

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2025

Donald Trump stated on May 8, 2025 in an event in the White House:

Declining cargo traffic at U.S. ports “means we lose less money. … When you say it's slowed down, that's a good thing.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025

Social Media stated on September 24, 2024 in social media posts:

Vice President Kamala Harris responded, “Next question please,” when asked about the economy during an Aug. 29 CNN interview.

By Sofia Ahmed • September 27, 2024

Nancy Pelosi stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC:

Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024

Donald Trump stated on April 2, 2024 in a speech:

"Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they're taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 10, 2024

Donald Trump stated on February 17, 2024 in a rally:

“The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marta Campabadal Graus • February 23, 2024

Joe Biden stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:

“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024

Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2023 in a speech in South Carolina:

“During Biden’s first 30 months in office, just 2.1 million new jobs were created, and by contrast, during my first 30 months in office we created 4.9 million new jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2023

Ron Johnson stated on July 14, 2022 in Blog post:

“We finally achieved that energy independence… under the Trump administration. President Biden squandered (it) away.”

By Lawrence Andrea • November 1, 2022

Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2020 in the first 2020 presidential debate:

Says Joe Biden “passed a tax bill that gave us all these privileges for depreciation and for tax credits. We built a building, and we get tax credits like the hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 1, 2020

Joe Biden stated on September 18, 2020 in a video in a tweet:

Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2020

Mike Pence stated on July 29, 2020 in an email:

The Trump administration “added over 209,000 jobs, including 16,000 new manufacturing jobs, to Pennsylvania over the last three years.

By Jessica Calefati • August 14, 2020

Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2020 in a White House briefing:

“We're setting record job numbers.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2020

Joe Biden stated on June 24, 2020 in an ad:

“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020

Donald Trump stated on June 15, 2020 in remarks during a roundtable discussion:

“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”

By Shefali Luthra • June 17, 2020

Democratic National Committee stated on September 20, 2019 in a press release:

Says Donald Trump is breaking a campaign pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania since the two states "have lost the most manufacturing jobs in the past year."

By Mica Soellner • October 18, 2019

Matthew Dowd stated on March 8, 2019 in a tweet:

"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019

Jerry Falwell Jr. stated on January 1, 2019 in a newspaper interview.:

"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."

By Warren Fiske • January 8, 2019

Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated on August 14, 2018 in a White House press briefing:

"President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years."

By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2018

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Trump speaking to the UN General Assembly Sept 2025

Fact-check: Trump misleads about ending 7 wars, US economy, renewable energy in UN speech

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 23, 2025

Trump and Putin’s history of misleading on Ukraine, US elections: 7 examples before Alaska summit

By Amy Sherman • August 13, 2025

Donald Trump’s tariff powers face a high-stakes legal test

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2025

Trump Tower, top of escalator, announcement speech

Trump launched the MAGA movement 10 years ago today. Have his priorities changed?

By Katie Sanders • June 16, 2025

PolitiFact readers’ feedback in the first 100 days of Trump presidency

By Josie Hollingsworth • April 21, 2025

What is a recession, and is it tied to stock market declines? What to know after Trump’s tariffs

By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2025

Trump Oval Office economic remarks Mar 7 2025

Fact-checking Trump on February job numbers: manufacturing, auto industry and native-born workers

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2025

New Trump tariffs could put even more downward pressure on economy because they’re less targeted

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2025

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Univision town hall with Latino voters

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 17, 2024

Kamala Harris hands out, debtating Trump in Philadelphia, 9-10-2024

Fact-checking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate

By PolitiFact Staff • September 11, 2024

Donald Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pa., 9-4-2024

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 5, 2024

Kamala Harris speaks in Jacskonville, Fla, 5-1-2024

Fact-check: Kamala Harris is running for president. How accurate is she on abortion, economy, Trump?

By Madison Czopek, Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 21, 2024

Donald Trump claps at Doral, Fla., rally, 7-9-2024

A guide to Trump’s 2nd term promises: immigration, economy, foreign policy and more

By Ian McKinney, Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2024

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, 7-17-2024

2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick JD Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech

By PolitiFact Staff • July 18, 2024

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, 7-15-2024

Live: Fact-checking Trump VP JD Vance’s 2024 RNC speech in Milwaukee

By PolitiFact Staff • July 17, 2024

2024 RNC fact-check: Trump appears with Vance, allies talk economy on Day 1

By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2024

Fact-checking Donald Trump on immigration, economy in first postdebate rally in Doral, Florida

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 10, 2024

Trump Biden debate on TV in Cincinnati, 6-27-2024

On the Biden-Trump debate stage, fact-checks were hard to find

By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2024

Wide-angle shot presidential debate stage in Atlanta, 6-27-2024

2024 presidential debate fact-check: How accurate were Joe Biden, Donald Trump?

By PolitiFact Staff • June 28, 2024

Biden in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, 5-8-2024

Fact-checking Joe Biden on the economy in CNN interview

By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2024