evidence: Strictly speaking, former President Barack Obama accumulated more debt than Trump. But Trump accumulated the most debt per year served in office. [...] Obama ran up more debt than any other president in American history. If you look at debt accumulated on a per-year basis, Trump’s rate of increase in the debt was higher over four years than over Obama’s eight. [...] PolitiFact, "Joe Biden blames Donald Trump for one quarter of today’s debt, ignores context," Jan. 25, 2023