Fact check: John Deere says Trump’s story about how he saved US jobs with a tariff threat is fictional | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that John Deere had just announced it was likely abandoning its plans to move some production from the US to Mexico .

But a search of news articles and corporate press releases showed no such such announcement the day prior.

Trump has told numerous fictional tales in recent weeks , including a false claim about the size of the Capitol riot.

The US exported more than $639 billion worth of total goods and services to the European Union in 2023 .

Trump falsely claimed the US has a trade deficit of $300 billion with the EU .

The US was generating billions per year in revenue from tariffs on Chinese imports before Trump took office.

The ISIS “caliphate” was declared fully liberated more than two years into Trump ’s presidency.

As of June 30, 2024 , there were 27,076 US military personnel in South Korea , including civilians working for the Department of Defense .

Trump falsely claimed that after demanding that South Korea pay $5 billion per year for the US military presence there, “they agreed to $2 billion ” In reality, the one-year deal to which South Korea agreed in 2019 was for roughly $925 million .