President Trump’s Last Day as Verified President

Upon leaving office as President of the United States, President Trump made a series of statements about his background.

We verified some of the facts he said in a farewell speech at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and in a video released by the White House.

In his final public address as president, he praised his government’s record in the armed forces.

He said earlier that he was exhausted under former President Obama.

It is true that the Trump administration has increased the amount of military funding.

However, spending levels are lower than spending on the military during Obama’s first government (2009 to 2013), using inflation-adjusted data.

President Trump has also reduced the number of soldiers in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

In his speech at Andrews Air Force Base, Trump also said that “we have the largest economy in the world”, and before the pandemic the numbers were “at a level that no one has ever seen before”.

The United States economy certainly performed well with it before the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, but there were periods in previous administrations when it was better.

In his first three years in office, President Trump oversaw an average annual growth of 2.5%.

That was slightly higher than in the last three years of the Obama era.

However, there were many periods when GDP growth – the value of goods and services in the economy – was much higher.

And in 2020, the economy saw the biggest contraction ever recorded because of the pandemic.

It rebounded by 33% in the third quarter of last year, a record for a quarterly increase, but that did not bring economic activity back to pre-pandemic levels.

President Trump also said, “Now the stock market is substantially higher than it was at its peak before the pandemic.”

Although there have been recent fluctuations, the stock market has returned to pre-pandemic levels.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use for two Covid-19 vaccines – Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech.

The government’s vaccine program, Operation Warp Speed, provided funding for the development of the Modern vaccine.

Although Pfizer / BioNTech signed an agreement with the government to deliver the doses, it received no money to develop or test.

And although Pfizer is an American company, this particular vaccine was developed in conjunction with the German company BioNTech.

It was gene-based technology that was the key to making the vaccine.

This needs context, as it depends on how you define war.

The US formally promulgated declarations of war against 11 countries in five separate conflicts. The last formal declaration of war was during World War II.

Most of the time, the United States gets into conflict using the “military force authorization” granted by Congress to the president.

For example, President George W Bush used this for the 2003 Iraq war.

And President Obama sought congressional approval to intervene in Syria after chemical weapons were used there.

President Trump was involved in military actions abroad using legislation passed by previous governments.

In October 2019, he announced the assassination of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a military operation, but said he decided not to notify Democratic leaders in Congress in advance.

In January 2020, President Trump ordered an air strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The White House cited Congress’ “military force clearance” granted under the Bush administration as its legal basis.

The Trump administration has also stepped up U.S. drone attacks in Somalia.

The construction of a wall along the southern border with Mexico was one of his main promises in the race for the 2016 elections.

On January 4, 2021, a total of 452 miles (757 km) of barrier has been built since he took office.

However, the vast majority of this new wall has replaced existing structures on the border.

Only 80 miles of new barriers have been built where none existed before.

Of these 47 miles is what is called the primary wall and 53 miles is the secondary wall that reinforces the initial barrier.

President-elect Joe Biden said he would not build “another foot” of the wall.

The African-American unemployment rate reached 5.2% in August 2019 and the Hispanic rate reached 4% in September 2019.

These were the lowest rates recorded since the United States Department of Labor began collecting these statistics in the 1970s.

The unemployment rate has recently skyrocketed significantly for both groups due to the huge impact of the pandemic on the United States economy.

And it has disproportionately affected African Americans and Hispanic Americans – their unemployment rates are 3.2 and 2.6 percentage points higher, respectively, than the overall number.

Asian-American unemployment is currently 5.9%.

It hit a record low of 2.1% in June 2019, but these records date back only to 2003.

VA Choice is a government program that provides better quality health care to ex-military personnel in the United States.

President Trump did not pass this program – he was created in 2014 under President Obama – but he expanded it.

In June 2018, President Trump signed a law that reformed the VA Choice, expanding eligibility requirements for veterans of access to private health care.

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