departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews
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Departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews.
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What happened
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arrives Joint Base Andrews
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Verified eventdeparts Joint Base Andrews en route to Selfridge Air National Guard Base
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Verified eventarrives Selfridge Air National Guard Base
Recorded in the president’s public schedule; the entry establishes the event, not any unstated outcome.
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What the evidence supports
A deported Salvadoran man's knuckle tattoos literally read MS-13.
The letters and numbers shown in a circulated image were digitally added labels, not tattoos spelling MS-13.
The FBI confirmed Venezuela sent gangs to the United States.
Public reporting described conflicting anonymous intelligence accounts and did not establish the broad claim.
Nobody was really investing in the United States during Biden's presidency, including Apple.
Foreign direct investment continued under Biden, and Apple announced major U.S. spending and investment commitments during his term.
Democrats claimed the government was not allowed to deport people in the country illegally.
The cited objections concerned due process and compliance with court orders, not a categorical claim that deportation was forbidden.
The administration had banned eight major artificial food dyes.
The administration announced a plan to seek voluntary phaseouts and further regulatory action, not an immediate comprehensive ban.
For the first time in modern history, more Americans thought the country was on the right track than the wrong track.
The cited result came from one Trump-aligned poll; multiple other contemporary polls found the opposite.
International tourism to the United States was doing great.
Overseas visits in March were 11.6% lower than in March 2024, contradicting the contemporaneous claim.
The military suddenly had the best recruiting numbers in 30 years because Trump returned to office.
Recruiting had improved, but the gains began before Trump took office and analysts said the shift reflected work over the prior two to five years.
Native-born job gains exceeded foreign-born job gains for the first time in recent memory.
Native-born employment did exceed foreign-born employment over the cited recent span, but similar two-month periods occurred several times in 2024.
Seven to eight trillion dollars was invested in the United States in Trump's first two months.
The White House cited future announcements above $5 trillion, not completed investment, and the stated $7 trillion to $8 trillion total was not supported.
The administration had restored free speech in America.
Courts had already found administration actions restricting news access and other expression contrary to the First Amendment, contradicting the categorical claim.
The administration set all-time records for the lowest number of illegal border crossings ever recorded.
The monthly totals were the lowest in modern monthly data, but average monthly apprehensions were lower during several years in the 1960s.
Egg prices had fallen 87% since Trump took office.
Wholesale prices had fallen about 61% from their February peak, not 87%, while the latest retail price remained above its January level.
Gasoline was selling for $1.98 per gallon in some states.
No statewide average was near $1.98, and a review of roughly 150,000 stations found none selling at that price at the time.
New automobile plants were being built because of Trump's policies at unprecedented levels.
Most cited announcements concerned existing plants or previously planned investments, and no evidence established a record level attributable to the new administration.
The administration had cut billions of dollars in fraud.
DOGE claimed savings but had not established that billions of those reductions represented fraud rather than disputed or canceled spending.
If Democrats prevailed on the tax bill, Americans would receive a 58% tax increase.
Expiration of the 2017 provisions would raise taxes, but Democrats supported extending cuts below $400,000 and the 58% formulation did not describe a general taxpayer increase.
Representative John James proposed impeaching Trump.
The Michigan lawmaker who introduced the impeachment resolution was Representative Shri Thanedar, not John James.
Trump brought back Columbus Day after Biden ended it.
Columbus Day remained a federal holiday throughout Biden's presidency, and Biden issued an annual Columbus Day proclamation.
Whoever operated Biden's autopen was the real president.
Presidents may authorize use of an autopen, and its mechanical operation does not transfer presidential authority to the operator.
Trump was ending the worst inflation in United States history.
Inflation had already fallen from its June 2022 peak of 9.1% to 2.4% by March 2025, and several historical periods had substantially higher inflation.
Coal was clean because modern coal production was cleaner than it had been historically.
Emissions per unit of coal-fired electricity had declined, but burning coal still emitted carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and was not clean in an absolute sense.
Biden had mandated that Americans buy electric vehicles, and Trump had terminated that mandate.
The Biden rule set fleetwide emissions limits rather than requiring consumers to buy electric vehicles, and the Trump EPA had announced reconsideration but had not yet terminated the rule.
Transcript audit
3 transcripts located
These full-text records were checked for testable factual claims. A verdict appears above only when corroborating evidence supports one.
Bottom line
This edition distinguishes the documented schedule from conclusions the schedule alone cannot support.
Sources & notes
Records reviewed
01
President’s Public ScheduleFactba.se / Roll Call · April 2025
↗02First 100 days claims reviewFactCheck.org · May 1, 2025
↗03Transcript-level fact-checksPolitiFact · Donald Trump claims
↗04First 100 days rally fact-checkAssociated Press · April 30, 2025
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