On Saturday, President Trump sent out an early morning tweet complaining about the media’s lack of reporting about a decline in the national debt during his brief tenure.
The debt statistics, which first appeared earlier in the week in a post on the conservative blog Gateway Pundit. were
rated “mostly false” by PolitiFact.
"Considering that Trump hasn’t enacted any fiscal legislation, it’s a bit of a stretch for him to take credit for any changes in debt levels," Dan Mitchell, a libertarian economist and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, told PolitiFact. "Debt levels go up and down in the short run based on independent factors such as quarterly tax payments and predetermined expenditure patterns."