Trump’s two terms have added about $11 trillion to the national debt, some 30 percent of its nearly $40 trillion total. Readers can pick a date at the site and find out what the national debt was, going back to April 1, 1993, when the debt was a mere $4.22 trillion. On July 1, the national debt was $39.4 trillion, which means the debt has accumulated at a rate of $430 billion daily since then. War Cost to the ConsumerOne expense Trump could have avoided was the war with Iran, which he started on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s orders. As The New American reported on April 30, citing the Iran War Cost Tracker, by then the war had cost $67 billion.