But President Trump started off his speech to the United Nations General Assembly with a number of bragging claims lifted straight from his campaign rallies. That was certainly unusual, as the General Assembly room is usually silent, with barely any applause, during the speeches. North Korea has a long history of making agreements and then not living up to them. Most economists would agree that China’s industrial rise caused millions of job losses in the United States and thousands of factory closures. “The United States is the world’s largest giver in the world, by far, of foreign aid.”Trump is using raw dollars here, but that’s misleading.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2018 06:56 UTC