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-- July 29 tweetFacts First: Baltimore does not have the worst economic numbers in the United States, though it does rank poorly by several measures.Baltimore had the fourth-worst unemployment rate of major cities in 2018, but its 5.7% rate was substantially better than that of last-place Detroit, which was at 9.0%. In 2017, the Baltimore metropolitan area (which includes more than the city of Baltimore, on which Trump was focusing his attacks) ranked 19th in the country in gross domestic product out of 383 areas studied. The city of Baltimore had a 22.4% poverty rate over the 2013-2017 period, well ahead of such cities as Detroit (37.9%), Bloomington, Indiana (37.5%), and Laredo, Texas (30.6%).Baltimore did have the highest homicide rate of any major city in 2017, so Trump was accurate in his claim about crime.Obama's recordObama and energy -- August 1 rally in CincinnatiFacts First: Obama did encourage the use of renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels, but he didn't try to.