Claim: "Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump's got it back to a trillion."
Fact-check: How the past five presidents affected the deficit
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Daniel Funke
Date published: 2019-07-29T00:00:00