Donald Trump: "GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters."

The Truth-o-Meter says: False | No, GDP growth was not zero, as Donald Trump said in Miami GOP debate Donald Trump held up lifeless economic growth as evidence that America isn't great anymore during the Republican primary debate in Miami. "GDP (gross domestic product) was zero essentially for the last two quarters," he said. "If that ever happened in China, you would have had a depression like nobody's ever seen before. They go down to 7 percent, 8 percent, and it's a national tragedy. We're at zero, we're not doing anything." Assuming that Trump was talking about growth in GDP and not the real gross domestic product (which was more than $18 trillion in the last quarter of ... >> More

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