Trump and his cabinet members have been repeating this lie over and over again for months now, bragging about how many investments they've supposedly brought to the United States this year, and he did it again this Friday during his lie-filled presser , where he claimed "I think we just cracked $18 trillion in commitments and investments… we are at plus $18+ trillion."

CNN's Daniel Dale brings the receipts on Trump's fiction :

Trump’s own  White House website  values the “major investment announcements” this term at “$8.8 trillion,” around half the “$17 trillion” and “$18 trillion” numbers Trump used out loud this week. And an item-by-item CNN review of the top 10 items on the White House’s list shows that even the “$8.8 trillion” number is itself a big exaggeration.

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