claim: "gdp was zero essentially for the last two quarters."
author: donald trump
evidence_1: mar 11, 2016 ... trump erroneously said that the u.s. economy isn't growing: "gdp was zero  essentially for the last two quarters. if that ever happened in china, you would  have had a depression like nobody's ever seen before. they go down to 7%, 8%,  and it's a national tragedy. we're at zero, we're not doing anything.".
evidence_2: mar 10, 2016 ... "gdp was 0 essentially for the last two quarters," trump said at thursday night's  debate. "if that ever happened in china you would have had a depression like  nobody has ever seen. they go down to 7 percent, 8 percent and it's a national  tragedy. we're at zero. we've lost our jobs. we've lost everything.
evidence_3: mar 11, 2016 ... rubio also falsely claimed that passing policies like the clean power act would  have “zero” impact on the environment. trump incorrectly ..... trump on gdp.  trump falsely claimed that u.s. economic growth was at “zero, essentially.”  trump: gdp was zero essentially for the last two quarters. if that ever ...
evidence_4: mar 11, 2016 ... “as an example, gdp was zero essentially for the last two quarters.” — trump.  this is wrong. the gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the  economy — increased at a rate of 1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 2  percent in the third quarter, according to the bureau of economic analysis.
evidence_5: may 18, 2015 ... for real gdp, the residual seasonality indicated by the persistently weak first- quarter growth rates in figure 2 might reflect several factors. ... if there were no  residual seasonality in the published real gdp, then these seasonal factors  would all be essentially zero, and our procedure would be innocuous.