Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump likes big figures – and he is always happy to speak them.
Trump, who invented the expression “truthful hyperbole” in his book “The Art of the Deal”, in recent days, has regularly increased the amount of money he says that the Middle East countries have committed to investing in the United States when he visited the region last week. He did not provide underlying details.
The figure increased from 2 dollars of dollars last week to potentially up to 7 billions of dollars on Tuesday, declarations of Trump and the White House.
An overview of how the number has rebounded:
Thursday: with his trip to the Middle East still in progress, Trump told journalists on Air Force One: “We have just taken 4 dollars.”
Friday: a White House press release said that “Trump’s first official trip was a huge success, locking more than 2 dollars of dollars in major cases”.
Monday: “We brought about 5.1 billions of dollars,” said Trump in remarks to the management of Kennedy Center. “It is not bad. And, it is credited as one of the most successful visits that anyone who has ever made any place. There has never been anything like it.”
Tuesday: “They spend 5.1 billions of dollars, it will probably be 7 billions of dollars as we stop,” said Trump before a meeting of the American Capitol with Republican members of the Chamber.
Tuesday: “You know, we have taken 5.1 billions of dollars in the last four days of the Middle East,” said Trump later in the afternoon in the oval office.
The White House did not respond to a request to explain the sources of Trump’s growing complaints.
The White House provided ventilation on the 2 dollars billions in its Friday declaration. It included $ 600 billion in Saudi Arabia, which the country announced in January as part of a four -year commitment. There would also be an economic scholarship of $ 1.2 billion with Qatar, as well as $ 243.5 billion in commercial and defense transactions with this country. The United Arab Emirates were engaged at $ 200 billion in transactions with the United States, putting the initial total of the White House at 2.24 billions of dollars, provided that all these commitments are really filled.
All investment commitments or promised jobs are not sure to materialize, so the final count may not be as much as promised.
Trump said in 2017 that the Foxconn electronics manufacturer Build a $ 10 billion factory in Wisconsin using 13,000 people, only for the company go back from this commitment in 2019.
