TRUMP: 'Someday soon, we will plant the American flag on Mars.' THE FACTS: This is not happening soon; almost certainly not while he is president even if he wins a second term.
1 / 3Fact Check WeekPresident Donald Trump points to the cheering crowd as he leaves an Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Washington. Trump roused a political tempest when he decided to plant himself squarely in Independence Day observances with a speech from the Lincoln Memorial. His words from that platform, though, were strikingly measured, except for some befuddlement over American military history.
International space agencies have made aspirational statements about possibly landing humans on Mars during the 2030s.___TRUMP:"The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the air , it rammed the ramparts. It took over the airports. It did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory.
In fact, there are many signs that growth is slowing, partly because of Trump's trade fights with China and Europe. Factory activity has decelerated for three straight months as global growth has slowed and companies are reining in their spending on large equipment.Trump is pushing the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, to cut short-term interest rates to shore up the economy. That isn't something a president would do amid the strongest economy in history.
The economy grew 2.9% in 2018 — the same pace it reached in 2015 under Obama — and simply hasn't hit historically high growth rates.TRUMP, on North Korea's help in returning the remains of U.S. troops from the Korean War:"The remains are coming back as they get them, as they find them. The remains of our great heroes from the war. And we really appreciate that." — remarks Sunday to Korean business leaders in Seoul.
Last summer, in line with the first summit between Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un that June, the North turned over 55 boxes of what it said were the remains of an undetermined number of U.S service members killed in the North during the 1950-53 war. So far, six Americans have been identified from the 55 boxes.
Congress approved the private-sector Veterans Choice health program in 2014 and Obama signed it into law. Trump expanded it. The VA estimated in 2013 that 22 veterans were taking their lives each day on average . The estimate was based on data submitted from fewer than half the states. In 2016, VA released an estimate of 20 suicides per day, based on 2014 data from all 50 states as well as the Pentagon.
THE FACTS: There's no evidence that car companies are flooding back to the U.S. He's also incorrect in saying that auto plants haven't been built in decades. A number of automakers — Toyota, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen among them — opened plants in recent decades, mostly in the South.
Automakers have made announcements about new models being built in Michigan, but no other factories have been reopened. Ford stopped building the Focus compact car in the Detroit suburb of Wayne last year, but it's being replaced by the manufacture of a small pickup and a new SUV. That announcement was made in December 2016, before Trump took office.TRUMP:"Robert Mueller is being asked to testify yet again.
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