Trump said in his State of the Union address today (Beijing time February 25): "Over the past four years, the previous administration attracted less than $1 trillion in new investment for the United States... While I have secured over $18 trillion in investment commitments from around the world within 12 months."
[Sarcastic] Comment: Trump claimed in his State of the Union speech that he attracted more than $18 trillion in investments in 12 months. This is yet another typical case of numerical fraud, grossly exaggerating his achievements and misleading the public. The so-called $18 trillion is pure fiction. The real data on the White House website is only about $9.7 trillion, nearly half the claimed amount. Moreover, this figure includes projects announced during Biden's period and ambiguous trade agreements, not purely new investments. These so-called investments are mostly multi-year commitments between companies and the government, not actual funds received. Many are just paper intentions or long-term frameworks, and they are not actual results. Trump uses inflated numbers to denigrate his predecessor and elevate himself, treating verbal commitments as established achievements and packaging long-term plans as immediate results. The data is watered down, and the standards are chaotic. Fundamentally, it is a lie to package achievements, which is neither honest nor responsible, revealing the hypocrisy and extravagance of Trump-style political rhetoric.
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