The claim
"He [Trump] has caused the deficit with China to go up, not down"
Original publisher’s rating
This is not quite right. After rising in 2017 the trade deficit with China - the gap between imports and exports - fell sharply after 2018, following tariffs imposed by Washington on Chinese goods.
Reviewed by BBC Reality Check ↗ ·
Read the original fact check ↗Sources and attribution
Original review: BBC Reality Check. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.
Updated