While most State of the Union speeches deal in hyperbole and getting the crowd riled up, Trump's speech had the same false statements that he has used in other speeches. One of the most dangerous things gaslighting leaders can do is couch their false statements between unifying statements. Since Trump took office in 2017, the economy has added 4.9 million jobs - and 454,000 manufacturing jobs. These "sort of true" statements and exaggerations are common in Trump's State of the Union speech. For a thorough fact-check of Trump's State of the Union, see this New York Times article, "State of the Union Fact Check: What Trump Got Right and Wrong".

Source: Forbes February 06, 2019 14:26 UTC