Fact check: Trump’s WSJ op-ed was littered with false and misleading claims

Photo: President Donald Trump accepts the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Friday, December 5, 2025, during the FIFA World Cup drawing at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr. US government work. Article by Daniel Dale, Alicia Wallace, Tami Luhby. CNN – February 3, 2026.

The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on Friday under the name of President Donald Trump. Trump criticized experts who warned that his tariff policies would cause economic destruction, writing that “the spectacular economic numbers coming out every single day” are proof that he was right and they were wrong. But Trump’s rosy case was based in part on figures that are plain false or highly misleading, using cherry-picked beginning and ending points for various calculations to serve the president’s argument. And some of his qualitative claims were also inaccurate. Here is a fact check. […]

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