Try reading it again, more carefully. It’s not like this is difficult stuff to understand.
“Try reading it again, more carefully. It’s not like this is difficult stuff to understand.”
You’re right; it isn’t. Let’s try this, from CNN: “Facts First: The US was the world’s number-one energy producer before Trump took office”, and yet, in 2016, “China is the top country by primary energy production in the world.”
(https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/Primary-energy-production). So if those data are correct, CNN’s assertion of “Facts” is wrong (a lie?), and Trump’s assertion for 2019 is an open to debate.
Or perhaps we should cut CNN some slack, and acknowledge that the term “energy production” is subject to interpretation? But that would invite giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, and applying the word “lie” wouldn’t produce much frisson.