AP FACT CHECK: Trump hypes claims on border arrests, taxes,

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was having it both ways over the past week, portraying a "crisis" at the Mexico border that demands the use of National Guard troops while boasting of a huge drop in illegal border crossings there.

A border crisis is in the eye of the beholder, but his claims about illegal entry into the U.S. were off.

Also in recent days, the president misrepresented his tax package's place in history and the size of the U.S. trade deficit with China, a number at the heart of an intensifying trade clash between the economic superpowers.

A look at some recent statements the facts behind them:

TRUMP: "For 40 years, they couldn't pass anything and they didn't know why.