President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara.
His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press while meeting with Turkey’s president on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of his Wednesday remarks.
Trump repeated his frequent false claim that “we have $19.2 trillion” invested in the US in just “one year” of his current presidency.
That figure is fiction, as we noted when he made the same claim Tuesday and on numerous previous occasions.
At the time Trump said it on Wednesday, the White House’s own website claimed there had been “$10.6 trillion” in “major investment announcements” this term, not $19.2 trillion, and even the White House figure was a major exaggeration of actual investment. A detailed CNN review in October found the White House was counting trillions of dollars in vague investment pledges – pledges that were about “bilateral trade” or “economic exchange” rather than investment in the US – and vague statements that didn’t even rise to the level of pledges.
The White House figure includes pledges from US-based companies as well as foreign entities. Federal data published last month shows that new foreign direct investment in the US was about $232 billion in 2025.
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President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara. His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press...