claim: "the steel industry is producing as much steel in the united states as it ever was. it’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jul 8, 2016 ... president barack obama repeated a well-worn narrative about the american  steel industry while at a recent summit in ottawa with the canadian prime  minister and the president of mexico.
evidence_2: sep 1, 2017 ... the main abuse that's been identified involves steel. last year, president barack  obama decried concerns about steel as "nostalgia." the industry, he said, "is  producing as much steel in the united states as it ever was. it's just [that] it needs  one-tenth of the workers that it used to." actually, he was dead ...
evidence_3: nov 18, 2016 ... a sample of obama's many lies as documented by politifact.com: "the steel  industry is producing as much steel in the united states as it ever was. it's just ( that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to." “my position hasn't  changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.”
evidence_4: jun 29, 2016 ... he said that era has been outmoded "far more by automation than by trade,"  adding that the u.s. steel industry was producing just as much as it ever was, but  now only needs one-tenth of the workers. on another issue that has been central  to the trump campaign, immigration, obama said anti-immigration ...
evidence_5: may 10, 2017 ... the next day, while meeting in ottawa with prime minister trudeau, then- president obama asserted that “the [american] steel industry is producing as  much steel in the united states as it ever was. it's just (that) it needs one-tenth of  the workers that it used to.” politifact checked; obama wasn't quite right, but ...