During a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, Donald Trump said, “We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.”
Our ruling
Trump said that “we have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.”
This statement is problematic regardless of how you interpret his statement – gross energy exports, net energy exports, gross crude-oil exports, and net natural gas exports. The closest he would come to being accurate is if he were referring to net natural gas exports, but even there, it hasn’t happened yet, contrary to what his past-tense statement indicates.
We rate the statement False.
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