It should come as no surprise that AP’s historically incompetent fact checkers would make political statements that cannot be backed up. However, their latest “fact check” on President Donald Trump’s economic claims shows that they aren’t even trying to seem plausible when making their attacks.

1. False Claim: “The U.S. economy just entered its 10th year of growth.”

Truth: 2009 saw the US GDP decrease by 2.5%. At the very minimum by any standard, no one could say the US is entering its 10th year of growth until 2020.

2. False Claim: “a recovery that began under President Barack Obama, who inherited the Great Recession”

Truth: the “Great Recession” was created by President Obama’s failed stimulus policy that simultaneously increased deficits while pushing forth policies that greatly restricted American industries. It was not until Obama’s 3rd year in office that America began to show any improvement above Bush’s final year in office, and the growth was historically slow with a growth of $15.208 trillion to $17.659 trillion (16% increase or roughly 2% per year) by the end of his presidency.

When one figures in the loss under his first year and instead count the measurement from the previous peak ($15.626 trillion), Obama’s growth was less than 2% per year, which is disastrous by all accounts. At only one time (2015) did he receive a higher than a 2.5% growth, which is the minimum for economic favorability. In short, this lack of growth means that the US was in what could still be considered a recession until 2017.

3. False Claim: “he economy faces two significant structural drags that could keep growth closer to 2 percent than 3 percent”

Truth: Neither are immediate factors that would impact the economy within the next year, so the attempt to add this as part of a “fact check” is essentially meaningless.

4. False Claim: “The president has been floating plans to slap import taxes on hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign goods, which has led to the risk of retaliatory tariffs by foreign companies on U.S. goods.”

Truth: The AP lies on two fronts. First, the tariffs Trump has threatened are retaliatory. Second, the use of retaliatory tariffs have led to more tariffs being dropped. This is exactly the response that Adam Smith, the father of Capitalism, predicted would happen when nations would employ retaliatory tariffs. In no way can his actions be deemed a threat to the economy, and, instead, his use of tariffs can directly be linked to the economic success by forcing other nations to embrace fair trade practices.

5. False Claim: “Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial, said the result is that the gains from trade in the second quarter will not be repeated.”

Truth: Moody is a highly criticized individual with a history of false claims. He also has a history of making disparaging comments about Republicans. “Regions Financial” has also been involved in multiple scandals for unethical and illegal practices.

6. False Claim: “Average hourly pay, before adjusting for inflation, is rising at about a 2.5 percent annual rate, below the 4 percent level reached in the late 1990s when the unemployment rate was as low as it is now.”

Truth: Not only do you not calculate something “before adjusting for inflation” to compare different decades, this is false in general. US wages have increased at a constant rate since the 1970s.

7. False Claim: “Trump also repeated his claim that the U.S. has a trade deficit with Canada, but that is true only in goods. ”

Truth: Canadian officials have shown that the US has a trade deficit with Canada including both goods and services. Even if the US might disagree with the Canadian figures, omitting them is a serious ethical error.