{"id":19133,"date":"2026-02-19T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-claims-us-trade-deficit-decreased-by-78-percent-due-to-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:22:22","slug":"trump-claims-us-trade-deficit-decreased-by-78-percent-due-to-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-claims-us-trade-deficit-decreased-by-78-percent-due-to-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims US trade deficit decreased by 78 percent due to tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday claimed that the U.S. trade deficit has fallen by 78 percent because of tariffs. &ldquo;THE UNITED STATES TRADE DEFICIT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 78% BECAUSE OF THE TARIFFS BEING CHARGED TO OTHER COMPANIES AND COUNTRIES,&rdquo; the president said in a post on his Truth Social platform&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5744684-trump-claims-trade-deficit-fall\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday claimed that the U.S. trade deficit has fallen by 78 percent because of tariffs. &ldquo;THE UNITED STATES TRADE DEFICIT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 78% BECAUSE OF THE TARIFFS BEING CHARGED TO OTHER COMPANIES AND COUNTRIES,&rdquo; the president said in a post on his Truth Social platform&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}