Better than anyone · 2016 campaign · № 11
Nobody knows more about trade than him
“Nobody knows more about trade than me.”
- Said
- , Campaign remarks, March 2016
- Subject
- trade
- Topic
- Trade & tariffs
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What the record showed
The U.S. trade deficit as a share of GDP rose from 2.7 percent in 2016 to 3.0 percent in 2018 and 2.9 percent in 2019. The goods-and-services trade deficit in 2020 was almost $654 billion, the highest since 2008 and 36.3 percent larger than in 2016.
Sources
- Everything Trump says he knows "more about than anybody"
- 19 things Donald Trump knows better than anyone else, according to Donald Trump
- 15 times Trump bragged about his economic genius that are especially awkward now
- Donald Trump's breathtaking self-admiration
- Trump's Final Numbers
- Economic policy of the first Donald Trump administration