Donald Trump is already decreasing the size of the national debt — but he’s getting none of the credit.
In a tweet late last month, Trump claimed that he had already shrunk the debt by $12 billion since taking office:
The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in Obama first mo.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017
PolitiFact claimed that Trump’s numbers “check out” but gave the claim a “mostly false” rating anyway — presumably because they thought the numbers were irrelevant.
In a way, they are correct. Those numbers are irrelevant — but not because they’re wrong. They’re just outdated. Trump didn’t shrink the deficit by $12. He shrunk it by more.
Read about the newest debt numbers on the next page:
What is funny is we are still opperating on Obamas Budget so any increase or decrease in the National debt would be because of Obamas fiscal Budget not anything Trump has or hasn’t done..I dont understand why people can’t figure that out.
That’s all part of being a leader. Something osama bin lyin knows nothing about.
Obama budget year still
Its going to take a long long time to whittle away at the 11 trillion dollars Obama borrowed and gave to our enemies illegals and refugees mixed with terriorsts, and.left the whitehouse a billionaire.
Travis Sanders
F**e! His plan doesn’t start til new fiscal year.
Sounds like all the other news organizations