Trump's 'total fiction' economic boasts shot down one by one by CNN fact-checker

President Donald Trump's record-long State of the Union address was subjected to a rigorous fact check by CNN's Daniel Dale.

The 79-year-old president boasted about his economic successes in a one-hour, 48-minute speech to Congress, but Dale told "CNN News Central" that many his claims were exaggerations at best or simply not true at all.

"A whole lot of nonsense there," Dale began. "So the president claimed that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. They simply are not. Tariff...