Washington (CNN) During a question and answer session with reporters on Sunday, Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker told President Donald Trump that "a lot of economists say that you should be preparing for a recession."

Trump responded that he is "prepared for everything," but that "I don't think we're having a recession."

Speaking to reporters before he boarded Air Force One in New Jersey, Trump pointed to Walmart's strong second-quarter earnings as a sign that consumer spending is healthy. Then he said, "And most economists actually say, Phil, that we're not going to have a recession. Most of them are saying we're not going to have a recession."

Facts First: We don't have data on what every economist thinks. But prominent bank economists have warned this month of a significant risk of a coming recession, and a survey of business economists, mostly conducted in July, found that 74% thought there would be a recession by 2021.

The US is still in its longest uninterrupted economic expansion ever; nobody knows for sure if or when a recession might hit. And since we don't have comprehensive data on economists' views, we can't declare Trump's claim about "most" of them false.