Subject: Re: This speech is awesome
Well done.

Fact check:

WHAT WAS SAID
“When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country.”

False. Inflation had already fallen to 3 percent in January, when Mr. Trump took office.


WHAT WAS SAID
“The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33 percent compared to the Biden last year.”

This is exaggerated. Mr. Trump may have been referring to, and overstating, a report from the American Farm Bureau, which estimated that the cost of a turkey at the grocery store before Thanksgiving had declined by 16 percent this year from last year. But wholesale turkey prices had actually risen this year,

Mr. Trump was also wrong that “everything else is falling rapidly.” In fact, the Consumer Price Index rose by 3 percent in September.


WHAT WAS SAID
“Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon into much of the country. In some states, it, by the way, just hit $1.99 a gallon.”

This is exaggerated. Nationally, gas prices averaged $2.90 per gallon in the week ending Dec. 15, according to the Energy Information Administration, a government statistical agency. Estimates from nongovernment trackers, like GasBuddy and AAA, were similar.


WHAT WAS SAID
“Already, I’ve secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States.”

False. Mr. Trump’s $18 trillion is almost double what his own White House press office has tallied ($9.6 trillion). It also includes broad pledges and previously announced projects. And more than half of that amount comes from informal pledges from foreign countries to invest in the United States that experts warn may be unrealistic.


WHAT WAS SAID
“We wrapped 12 different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.”

This is exaggerated. Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy law, which he signed over the summer, creates deductions for tips and overtime, but those breaks are temporary. And its tax reductions for Social Security benefits are even more limited.

For the record, and just to illustrate: His claim about $18 trillion in promised investments includes a trillion from Saudia Arabia and from Qatar. Which is larger than their GDP. So it seems unlikely they will be “investing” more than their total output into the US,eh?

Please note: this post is only intended for rational thinkers, not those enjoying the benefits of Quaaludes, Xanax, Mescaline (or other hallucinogens such as Trump Devotion Syndrome”) or molly.