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Don't listen to anything Trump says. He literally just lies when he feels like it.


Regardless, if someone were to say some event "devastated entire industries" within a nation, the meaning is a little complicated.


This event would seriously harm some industries to the point of collapse, and industries connected to the industries harmed;

However it would not completely disable all industries.

That phrase would usually be used for massive economic or environmental disasters, or perhaps the result of wars,