Candidate Trump Decried the National Debt in 2016 and Promised to Eliminate It. It’s Only Gotten Bigger.

On Trump’s first day in office (Jan. 20, 2017), the total U.S. debt stood at $19.95 trillion, up from the 11.9 trillion when Barack Obama was sworn in eight years earlier. As of Oct. 14, the debt under Trump had mushroomed to $27.1 trillion.

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