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Running claims tally

Overall Claims.
Every verdict counted.

All claims assessed across the complete published archive. Activity without a published claim assessment is excluded.

678Total Claims Assessed
578Daily Editions
Supported41False370Misleading194Unresolved73

Scoring

Integrity

6.0%

Supported Claims ÷ Total Claims Assessed

Veracity

16.8%

100% − (((False + Misleading) ÷ Total Claims Assessed) × 100)

Evasiveness

28.6%

Misleading Claims ÷ Total Claims Assessed

Entropy

39.4%

(Misleading + Unresolved) ÷ Total Claims Assessed

Year by year

Assessment volume

2026195assessments
2025483assessments

Claim lists

Every claim by verdict

Supported 41

Trump held a Cabinet meeting at Camp David that was opened to the press.

The Roll Call/Factba.se schedule and full transcript document the Camp David Cabinet meeting and the public transcript record.

The Dulles modernization plan announced by Trump is roughly a $22.5 billion project and would eliminate the airport's people movers.

AP and Guardian coverage of the Oval Office announcement described the project at about $22.5 billion and reported that the mobile-lounge people movers would be replaced by new passenger-transport options.

Dulles handled about 29 million passengers in 2025.

AP reported the 29 million-passenger figure in its Dulles modernization coverage, matching the airport-capacity context Trump used to promote the redesign.

The car-loan-interest deduction is limited to vehicles made in America.

Trump said the deduction applies only if the car is made in America. IRS guidance supports the core condition: qualified vehicles must have final assembly in the United States, though the broader deduction also has a $10,000 annual cap and income phaseouts.

Major technology companies signed the pledge.

AP confirmed Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon were among participating companies.

Eligible newborns can receive a one-time $1,000 federal deposit.

IRS and Treasury guidance confirms the pilot payment for eligible U.S. citizens born from 2025 through 2028 when an election is made.

Foreign governments have capabilities to target U.S. election infrastructure.

U.S. intelligence has long documented foreign cyber and influence capabilities.

China and other foreign countries had tried to meddle in U.S. elections.

Public intelligence assessments document foreign influence efforts, although they do not show that foreign actors changed cast votes.

July 4, 2026 marked 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Trump said the country would mark 250 years of American independence on July 4. The National Archives records that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration on July 4, 1776.

Trump signed the National Quantum Initiative Act into law in 2018.

Trump made this claim while signing the June quantum orders. Congress's official legislative record confirms that the National Quantum Initiative Act was signed by the president and became Public Law 115-368 on December 21, 2018.

The Secure America Act funded ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump's term.

Trump said the law would fund immigration enforcement through the end of his term. The enacted law and contemporaneous AP reporting confirm nearly $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol through fiscal year 2029, covering the remainder of the term.

A recent week of initial jobless claims was the lowest since 1969.

Labor Department data showed the late-April weekly total was the lowest since September 1969, although that did not describe the month as a whole.

The United States was producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.

Contemporary production data broadly supported the comparison, though country totals vary by petroleum definition.

The United States produced more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.

Production data broadly supported the combined comparison, although totals vary depending on the petroleum definition used.

Major technology companies signed the White House ratepayer-protection pledge.

Representatives of the participating companies signed the pledge at the recorded White House event.

The stock market set 53 record highs after the 2024 election.

The cited count of closing highs was broadly supported, although it does not establish the cause of the market's performance.

The 2025 murder rate recorded the largest annual decline on record.

Preliminary national data supported a historic one-year decline, although the downward trend began earlier.

The United States had net negative migration in 2025, the first time in decades.

PolitiFact found Census Bureau estimates showed a net decrease of about 203,000 people from international migration in 2025, supporting the direction of the claim while noting uncertainty around exact historical comparisons.

Denmark had spent less than 1% of a promised $200 million aid package for Greenland.

PolitiFact reported Denmark had spent about $1.5 million of the $200 million package, which was below 1%.

Trump won all seven swing states and the popular vote in the 2024 election.

Federal election results support both statements. This does not support his separate description of the victory as a giant historical landslide.

U.S. oil prices had declined since Trump took office.

FactCheck.org found West Texas Intermediate crude was down 24.8% from January 17 to December 8, while noting that broader energy-price measures were mixed.

U.S. crude-oil production was at a record level.

FactCheck.org reported that monthly production was up from January and that the 2025 daily average was on course to exceed the prior annual record.

More than 600,000 fewer Americans were receiving SNAP benefits after Trump took office.

USDA data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a decline of more than 645,000 recipients between January and May. This supports the numerical decrease, but not Trump’s separate claim that it was a record.

Car thefts had doubled and carjackings had more than tripled in Washington over the prior five years.

A crime-data analyst told FactCheck.org the description was accurate, while noting both crimes had fallen from their 2023 peaks.

Apple announced a $600 billion U.S. investment commitment over four years.

Apple announced that a new $100 billion commitment increased its planned U.S. spending and investment to $600 billion over four years.

The advance estimate showed real GDP grew at a little more than 3% in the second quarter.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis advance estimate reported 3.0% annualized real GDP growth for the second quarter of 2025.

The European Union agreed to purchase $750 billion of U.S. energy by 2028.

The White House fact sheet announcing the agreement described an EU commitment to purchase $750 billion in U.S. energy by 2028.

The European Union agreed to make $600 billion in additional U.S. investments by 2028.

The announced agreement included $600 billion in new EU investment in the United States by 2028, on top of existing annual investment.

Retail egg prices were lower than when Trump took office.

BLS data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a dozen grade A white eggs averaged $3.78 in June, down from $4.95 in January.

The House-passed reconciliation bill proposed a one-time $1,000 federal contribution to an investment account for each eligible U.S.-citizen child born from 2025 through 2028.

The Congressional Research Service described the House-passed bill as creating a $1,000 one-time credit deposited into a Trump Account for eligible U.S.-citizen children born in 2025 through 2028.

The United Arab Emirates had made a $1.4 trillion investment commitment.

The UAE announced a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in March; the figure described a forward commitment, not money already invested.

Prescription drugs cost more in the United States than in other developed countries.

A RAND comparison found overall U.S. prescription-drug prices averaged 2.78 times those in 33 other developed countries; the gap was larger for brand-name drugs.

TSMC announced an additional $100 billion U.S. investment, bringing its planned total to $165 billion.

TSMC's announcement confirmed an intended additional $100 billion for three fabrication plants, two advanced-packaging facilities and an R&D center in Arizona, on top of its existing $65 billion plan.

All 50 states shifted toward the Republican presidential candidate in 2024 compared with 2020.

State-level presidential results show every state moved toward Trump relative to his 2020 performance.

India imposed a 70% tariff on some imported U.S. cars.

India's 2025 tariff schedule applied a 70% customs duty to certain fully built imported cars, including higher-value vehicles.

Trump won the 2024 popular vote by millions of votes.

Trump's certified popular-vote margin was 2,284,316 votes.

All 50 states shifted toward the Republican presidential candidate in 2024 compared with 2020.

State-level presidential results show every state moved toward Trump relative to his 2020 performance.

The Stargate partners announced an intended $500 billion investment in United States AI infrastructure.

The consortium announced an immediate $100 billion deployment and an intended total of $500 billion over four years; the verdict supports the announced plan, not guaranteed completion.

Trump won the 2024 popular vote by more than two million votes.

The Associated Press reported a popular-vote margin of 2,284,316. This supports the numerical claim, but not Trump's separate characterization of the result as an unusually large mandate.

The Stargate project intended to invest $500 billion in United States AI infrastructure over four years.

Stargate's participants publicly announced an immediate $100 billion deployment and an intended total investment of $500 billion over four years. This supports the stated plan, not a guarantee that the full amount would ultimately be spent.

All 50 states shifted toward the Republican presidential candidate in 2024 compared with 2020.

State-level presidential results show every state moved toward Trump relative to his 2020 performance; this assessment does not endorse the separate claim that such a shift had never happened before.

False 370

Minnesota and Gov. Tim Walz were behind recent cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems.

AP reported that authorities had not identified Minnesota or Walz as the source; federal cyber agencies had warned of Iranian targeting of water and wastewater systems.

Prescription-drug discounts of 300% to 600% have been achieved.

AP noted that a price cut above 100% would mean patients were paid to take drugs, making the percentage claim impossible as stated.

Biden allowed 25 million people into the United States.

AP cited Customs and Border Protection data showing about 10.8 million border arrests from January 2021 through December 2024, with repeat crossings meaning people counted were fewer than arrests.

Biden and Democrats created the worst inflation in 48 years.

Trump repeated this in the Milford remarks. FactCheck.org and BLS context show the Biden-era CPI peak of 9.1% in June 2022 was the largest 12-month increase since November 1981, roughly four decades, not 48 years, and it was not a record.

Trump “won three times,” including a rigged 2020 election.

He won the presidency in 2016 and 2024. Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election; Trump has not produced evidence establishing a rigged result.

$19.2 trillion is being spent in the United States.

CNN found the figure unsupported. Even the White House’s broader tally was $10.7 trillion in announcements and included vague pledges, not verified spending.

California's ballot-counting timeline demonstrated nefarious conduct.

The timeline followed state law for receiving and verifying mail ballots and was not evidence of fraud.

Israel would not exist today if Trump had not withdrawn from the Iran nuclear agreement.

The sweeping counterfactual was unsupported, and the agreement restricted Iran's nuclear program rather than authorizing a weapon.

The JCPOA was a road that allowed Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.

The agreement imposed enrichment, stockpile and monitoring limits and did not grant Iran a right to nuclear weapons.

Ongoing ballot counting in California meant officials were cheating.

Continuing to count valid ballots under state procedures is not evidence of election fraud.

Slow primary counting in California proved the election was rigged.

California's lawful mail-ballot timetable did not establish fraud.

Trump never guaranteed he would keep the United States out of new wars.

Campaign statements included explicit promises to keep the country out of wars.

FBI agents ushered January 6 rioters into the Capitol.

Investigations found no evidence that undercover FBI employees orchestrated or facilitated the attack.

Iran obtained all of its uranium during the Obama administration.

FactCheck.org reported Iran's enriched-uranium stockpile grew sharply after Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, not entirely during Obama's presidency.

A cognitive screening test demonstrated extreme intelligence.

The screening test checks for possible cognitive impairment and is not an intelligence test or a measure of exceptional intelligence.

Iran's navy, air force and all other military capabilities were gone.

Iran's forces were significantly degraded, but intelligence assessments said substantial missile, drone and air-defense capabilities remained.

Three Iowa gas stations displayed regular gasoline prices between $1.85 and $1.90 during his January visit.

Tracked regular-gas prices did not support those figures; the claim may have conflated regular gasoline with the niche E85 blend.

Prescription drug prices had fallen by 400% to 600%.

A price reduction greater than 100% is mathematically impossible.

Eighteen trillion dollars in investment was coming into the United States in eleven months.

The White House listed $10.6 trillion in announcements, and that total included vague, nonbinding or non-investment pledges.

The Obama and Biden administrations spent hundreds of millions of dollars repairing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The Obama-era contract was about $35 million and the Biden administration did not undertake the proposed major rehabilitation.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is 2,400 feet long and longer than the world's tallest building.

The pool is about 2,028 feet long, while the Burj Khalifa exceeds 2,700 feet.

Stopping federal fraud would produce a balanced budget.

Even the government's high-end estimate of annual fraud losses was far smaller than the projected federal deficit.

Maryland sent 500,000 fake, corrupt or illegal ballots to help Democrats.

A vendor error produced duplicate primary mailings, but safeguards prevented duplicate voting and there was no evidence of a partisan fraud scheme.

The federal government had created numerous reserves similar to the new anti-weaponization settlement fund.

The cited precedents were not comparable federal reserve funds of the kind described.

Twenty-five million people entered the United States under Biden's border policy.

Credible measures of encounters, releases and the unauthorized population do not support treating 25 million people as admitted entrants.

No one had entered through the border during the preceding 11 months.

Border encounters fell sharply, but official data did not show zero entries or encounters.

Gasoline prices had come down very substantially that day.

Available price data did not show a substantial same-day decline.

Consumer confidence was way up.

Major consumer-confidence measures had declined rather than risen sharply.

Zero undocumented immigrants had entered the United States during the preceding 11 months.

Border apprehensions fell sharply but official data still recorded thousands of encounters, so the literal zero claim was incorrect.

Thom Tillis was no longer a senator.

Tillis remained a sitting U.S. senator when Trump made the statement.

Pope Leo XIV thought it was acceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon.

The pope had called for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons; the cited remarks did not support Trump’s characterization.

The United States had no inflation.

Consumer prices were 2.4% higher than a year earlier.

More than $18 trillion in record-setting investment was coming into the United States.

The White House's own compilation was far lower and included speculative or previously announced commitments.

The administration saved two million American farms from extinction through estate-tax changes.

There were fewer than two million farms in the United States, and only a small fraction of farm estates would otherwise have owed the tax.

American soybeans were being shipped to China in record amounts.

Exports to China were about half the prior year's level at that point, and the announced annual purchase amount was below recent averages.

Beef prices were starting to come down.

Ground beef was down only one cent month to month and remained substantially higher year over year, while other beef prices rose.

An environmental restriction had forced the U.S. cattle herd down and Trump eliminated it.

The White House cited the nonbinding Green New Deal resolution, which never passed and imposed no cattle restriction to repeal.

A $12 billion farm-aid package was paid from tariff revenue.

The aid came through the Commodity Credit Corporation, which is funded by regular congressional appropriations.

Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.

Evidence does not show that voting by mail inherently produces widespread fraud.

The United States was the only country that used mail-in voting.

Multiple other democracies permit postal voting, so the categorical claim was incorrect.

Iran had Tomahawk missiles.

Tomahawk is a U.S.-made cruise missile; available inventories did not support the claim.

The Biden administration produced the worst inflation in U.S. history.

The 2022 peak was the highest in about four decades, not the highest in U.S. history.

The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement gave Iran the right to possess top-of-the-line nuclear weapons.

The agreement restricted Iran’s nuclear program and did not grant a right to nuclear weapons.

The administration ended eight wars in ten months.

AP found the figure highly exaggerated and several cited disputes were not wars conclusively ended by the administration.

Trump inherited inflation at record levels.

The annual inflation rate was 3% and far below historical records.

The United States secured $18 trillion in investment commitments.

The White House's own compilation was substantially lower and included nonbinding pledges.

Gasoline was below $2.30 in most states.

Statewide averages did not support the claim.

The warrior dividend was paid from tariff revenue.

The payment was funded through enacted federal appropriations, not a dedicated tariff account.

Cheating is rampant in U.S. elections.

Documented election fraud is rare and not shown at the systemic scale claimed.

Noncitizen voting is rampant in U.S. elections.

Large-scale citizenship checks flagged only a tiny share of registrations, and flags did not establish that those people voted.

Eliminating federal fraud could balance the budget overnight.

The government's high-end estimate of annual fraud losses was far below the roughly $1.8 trillion federal deficit.

U.S. oil production had risen by more than 600,000 barrels per day since Trump returned to office.

FactCheck.org reported the increase was about 334,600 barrels per day over the relevant period, far below the figure Trump gave.

U.S. hockey player Brady Tkachuk made a profane statement about the Canadian team.

The quotation circulated in a fabricated social-media post and was not an authentic statement by Tkachuk.

The greenhouse-gas endangerment finding had no basis in fact or law.

The finding rested on a large scientific record and was upheld by a federal appeals court.

Among Somalis in Minnesota, 92% do not work.

Employment data did not support the 92% figure.

Drugs entering the United States by sea were down 97%.

The administration did not provide evidence supporting a 97% decline in maritime drug entry.

$18 trillion was being invested in the United States.

AP found no evidence for that total; the White House’s own broader compilation was substantially lower and included speculative commitments.

Minnesota immigration protests were fake demonstrations run by professional insurrectionists.

The reviewed evidence did not support characterizing the protests as fabricated or professionally staged.

The United States gave Greenland back to Denmark after World War II.

Greenland was never U.S. territory, so the United States did not give it back to Denmark.

China builds practically no wind farms.

China had the world's largest wind-energy fleet and continued to add wind capacity, contradicting the categorical claim.

The United States had secured $18 trillion in new investment commitments.

The White House’s own published total was $9.6 trillion, and experts cautioned that some listed pledges might never materialize.

Gasoline averaged $1.99 per gallon in many states.

No state’s average was below $2; only a limited number of individual stations advertised prices under that threshold.

Fentanyl overdoses killed 300,000 people in the preceding year.

Federal data recorded about 69,000 deaths from all drug overdoses, not solely fentanyl, in the latest twelve-month period.

No previous president had probably ever settled a war.

The historical record contains numerous presidentially brokered armistices, peace agreements and conflict settlements.

The United States gave Greenland back to Denmark after World War II.

Greenland did not belong to the United States, so the United States could not have returned it to Denmark.

The Biden administration subjected the United States to stagflation.

Inflation rose, but real GDP expanded at healthy rates throughout Biden's presidency rather than stagnating.

The United States had received absolutely nothing in return for its NATO spending.

NATO invoked collective defense after 9/11, and allies supplied troops and support for U.S.-led operations.

Countries lose more money and perform worse as they add more wind power.

Onshore wind was among the cheapest new electricity sources, and the claimed cross-country relationship was unsupported.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged and Biden did not win it.

Certified results gave Biden 306 electoral votes and a popular-vote margin exceeding seven million; investigations found no outcome-changing fraud.

Stopping the alleged fraud would balance the federal budget.

The identified fraud estimates were far below the federal deficit and could not balance the budget.

Credit-card companies would violate the law unless they capped interest rates at 10% by January 20.

No enacted federal law imposed that deadline or universal cap.

Nicolás Maduro was flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl.

Available drug-trafficking evidence did not support attributing the U.S. fentanyl supply to Maduro or Venezuela.

The former U.S. childhood vaccine schedule required babies to receive 72 injections.

The schedule did not require 72 injections for babies; the number conflated doses across childhood and misstated the schedule.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed.

Authorities identified no evidence tying Walz to Hortman’s killing; the accusation contradicted the documented investigation.

Biden gave the United States the worst inflation in its history.

The 9.1% peak in 2022 was the highest in about four decades but far below historical U.S. inflation peaks.

Gasoline was below $2.50 nationally and below $2 in many places.

The national average remained about $2.90, and sub-$2 prices were limited to isolated stations rather than many areas.

The administration had secured more than $18 trillion in new investment.

The White House's own list was roughly $9.6 trillion and included aspirational pledges, product purchases and previously announced commitments.

Prescription-drug prices had been cut by 300% to 600%.

A price cannot decline by more than 100%, making the stated reductions mathematically impossible.

The United States had been invaded by an army of 25 million immigrants.

The figure substantially exceeded credible estimates of entries and of the unauthorized immigrant population.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Biden legitimately won the certified election, and audits, courts and election officials found no outcome-changing fraud.

Inflation had stopped after being the worst in U.S. history.

Inflation was 2.7% and the Biden-era peak was not the highest in U.S. history.

Gasoline was under $2.50 nationally and $1.99 in some states.

The national average was about $2.90 and no statewide average was $1.99.

Many families would save $11,000 to $20,000 annually from the tax law.

The estimated average tax cut was about $800; savings in the stated range applied on average only to the top 1%.

The United States was invaded by an army of 25 million immigrants.

The estimate substantially exceeded credible measures of entries and the unauthorized population.

Drug prices were cut by 400% to 600%.

A price cannot fall by more than 100%.

The United States had received $18 trillion to $22 trillion in investment promises since January.

Documented announcements were far below that range and included speculative or previously announced commitments.

Inflation had stopped.

Consumer prices were still rising at about 3% year over year.

Gasoline averaged $1.99 in three or four states.

No statewide average was that low, though isolated stations advertised such prices.

Tariff revenue would soon be large enough that Americans would not have to pay federal income tax.

Individual income taxes brought in roughly $2.4 trillion in 2024, more than fourteen times the revenue attributed to Trump's second-term tariffs at the time.

Tariff revenue could replace federal income-tax revenue.

Federal income taxes raise far more money than tariffs; analysts told PolitiFact that replacing income taxes would require implausibly high tariff or sales-tax levels and would not match the revenue base.

Trump had achieved the highest poll numbers of his political career.

Contemporary job-approval polling was below several earlier peaks in both his first and second terms.

Under Biden, government jobs were going up while real jobs were going down.

Private-sector jobs increased every year under Biden and rose by about 14.3 million over his term; government jobs also increased but at a slower rate.

The drop of more than 600,000 SNAP recipients under Trump was a record.

USDA data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a larger decline from October 2024 to January 2025, before Trump's second term began.

Tariffs were helping reduce the annual federal deficit by more than 25%.

The fiscal-year deficit declined by less than 25%, and tariff revenue alone did not support attributing that reduction as claimed.

Tariffs had generated trillions of dollars that could fund $2,000 dividends and substantially reduce the debt.

Tariff collections were measured in hundreds of billions, not trillions, and analysts found the proposed payments could exceed available revenue.

Tariffs were helping slash the federal deficit by more than 25%.

The fiscal 2025 deficit was only 2.3% lower than in fiscal 2024, and it was higher during Trump's months in office than in the comparable 2024 period.

The United States had no inflation and inflation was 2%.

Consumer prices were up 3% year over year.

Grocery prices were going down.

The available food-at-home index did not support a broad decline.

Biden allowed more than 11,000 murderers into the country.

The cited ICE docket includes people accumulated over decades and does not show that Biden released that number.

Each drug boat struck by the U.S. military would have killed 25,000 Americans.

The arithmetic was implausible compared with total U.S. overdose deaths and conflated potential doses with actual deaths.

No judge can challenge a president's use of the Insurrection Act.

Legal experts and Supreme Court precedent indicate courts can review bad-faith, plainly unauthorized or unlawful uses of military force.

Biden illegally used an autopen to grant pardons.

Prior Justice Department analysis and constitutional scholars have said autopen use can be lawful when authorized by the president; no solid proof established unauthorized pardons.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the result.

The United States spent $350 billion on Ukraine.

Congressional and oversight totals for U.S. Ukraine-related support were far below $350 billion.

The United States had experienced the worst inflation in its history under Biden.

The 9.1% peak in 2022 was the highest in about four decades but far below historical U.S. inflation peaks.

Grocery prices were way down.

The food-at-home price index remained above its January level and did not support a broad decline in grocery prices.

Inflation had been defeated.

Consumer prices were still rising at roughly 3% year over year.

Workers' wages were rising at the fastest pace in 60 years.

Wage-growth measures were positive but well below multiple earlier periods, including the rapid nominal gains recorded during the pandemic-era labor market.

Democrats wanted $1.5 trillion for health care for illegal aliens.

The $1.5 trillion was the estimated 10-year cost of Democrats' broader spending proposal, not money for undocumented immigrants' health care.

Obama and Biden had absolute hatred toward Israel.

Both administrations continued extensive U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israel despite policy disagreements with Netanyahu.

Prescription-drug prices would fall by 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% or more.

A price cannot decline by more than 100%; the repeated percentages were mathematically impossible descriptions of a price reduction.

Babies are given 82 vaccines in one shot.

CDC schedules show babies receive nowhere near 82 vaccines in total, and not 82 vaccines in a single shot or visit.

Vaccine doses given to babies are the size of two glasses of water.

Typical infant vaccine doses are about a fraction of a teaspoon, not anywhere near the size Trump described.

Amish people do not take vaccines or pills and have no autism.

Experts told CNN and FactCheck.org that some Amish families vaccinate and use medications, and autism exists in Amish communities.

The measles vaccine is already available separately from the MMR shot.

No separate measles-only shot was available in the United States.

Each alleged Venezuelan drug boat that is struck would otherwise kill 25,000 Americans.

The figure did not make sense against total U.S. overdose deaths and was unsupported by evidence about the boats' cargo.

Prescription-drug prices would be reduced by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% or more.

Price cuts greater than 100% are mathematically impossible, and the policy's actual effect remained uncertain.

The 2020 election was rigged and the wrong person became president.

Biden legitimately won the certified 2020 election, and audits, courts and officials found no outcome-changing fraud.

There were fires all over Portland.

Portland Fire & Rescue identified only a few protest-adjacent fire calls near the federal building, not fires across the city.

Portland was burning to the ground.

Protests were concentrated near an ICE facility and normal city life continued across Portland; the city was not burning down.

Joe Biden never said the United States had the strongest military in the world.

Biden repeatedly called the U.S. military the strongest fighting force in the world and in history.

Biden said he wanted to terminate the Space Force.

Biden made no such statement, and his administration said the Space Force had its full support.

Trump raised NATO's defense-spending target from 1% to 2% during his first term.

NATO defense ministers agreed on the 2% benchmark in 2006 and reaffirmed it in 2014, before Trump's presidential campaign.

Biden gave Ukraine $350 billion.

Independent tracking and U.S. oversight figures put aid allocations, disbursements and appropriations far below $350 billion.

Portland was burning down and looked like World War II.

Protests and incidents were localized near a federal facility; Portland as a whole was not burning down.

The FBI placed 274 agents in the January 6 crowd who were probably agitators and insurrectionists.

Reviews found the FBI deployed agents in response to the Capitol attack and did not authorize or direct them to incite illegal activity.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Certified results, audits, court rulings and election-security reviews found no fraud sufficient to change the result.

Inflation had been defeated.

Inflation was still positive and had risen since the spring, with August CPI around 2.9% year over year.

Grocery prices were down under Trump.

Average grocery prices were higher than when Trump returned to office, even though some individual items had declined.

U.S. electricity bills were coming way down.

Electricity prices were higher than a year earlier and higher than in January.

The United States had secured $17 trillion in new investment commitments and money paid in eight months.

The figure exceeded the White House's own recent public tally and relied on commitments that were not documented as paid investment.

China has very few wind farms and barely uses wind energy.

China had the world's largest operating wind-farm capacity and the largest number of operating wind farms.

Wind energy is the most expensive energy ever conceived and cannot exist without massive subsidies.

Onshore wind is often cheaper than coal or gas on a levelized-cost basis, while nuclear is typically more expensive than wind.

Global warming is a hoax and the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.

Scientific evidence shows the planet is warming and that human greenhouse-gas emissions are the primary driver.

Scientists switched from saying global warming to climate change because the Earth started cooling.

Scientists use both terms; climate change describes the broader effects of a warming planet, not a retreat from warming evidence.

The Paris climate accord required the United States to pay about $1 trillion.

The accord did not require the United States to pay $1 trillion, and U.S. climate-finance commitments were far lower.

China did not have to act or pay under the Paris accord until 2030.

The Paris accord took effect for all participating countries in 2016 and allowed each country to set its own voluntary targets.

Twenty-five million people entered the United States under Biden.

Federal encounter data, even with estimated gotaways, did not come close to 25 million people entering the country.

Trump had the highest poll numbers he had ever had.

Public polling averages showed his approval well below peaks from earlier in the year and his first term.

There is no downside to avoiding Tylenol during pregnancy.

Untreated fever and pain during pregnancy can create maternal and fetal health risks, and acetaminophen remains a recommended option when needed.

The Amish do not take vaccines and have essentially no autism.

Research found many Amish parents vaccinated at least some children, and autism has been documented in Amish communities.

There is no reason to give newborns the hepatitis B vaccine because the virus is sexually transmitted.

Hepatitis B can spread from mother to baby at birth and through nonsexual household contact, and early infection is more likely to become chronic.

Mercury and aluminum in vaccines are dangerous ingredients being pumped into children.

Studies have not found thimerosal or aluminum adjuvants in vaccines to be harmful in the way Trump suggested; thimerosal was already removed from routine childhood vaccines except some multidose flu shots.

Doctors pump babies with 80 different vaccines or blends in one visit.

Children do not receive 80 vaccines at once; the claim mischaracterized the recommended vaccination schedule.

Breaking up the MMR vaccine into separate shots is safer.

Evidence does not show the combined MMR vaccine causes autism, and separate component shots are not available in the United States.

Small children receive 80 different vaccines.

The childhood schedule does not give children 80 different vaccines, and the claim conflated doses, ingredients and visits.

The United States had no inflation.

Consumer prices were still rising, with year-over-year inflation around 2.9%.

Trump won the 2020 presidential election by a large margin.

Joe Biden won the certified election with 306 electoral votes and a national popular-vote margin of more than seven million.

The administration had already solved inflation and prices.

Consumer prices were still rising, with annual inflation increasing to 2.9% in August from 2.7% in July.

Biden-era inflation was the worst in United States history.

The 9.1% peak in 2022 was the highest in about 40 years, far below the 23.7% historical peak recorded in 1920.

China was paying the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.

U.S. importers pay tariffs to the U.S. government and may pass some of those costs to consumers; China does not make the tariff payments.

The United States was into the Ukraine war for $350 billion.

Independent aid tracking and the U.S. inspector general reported allocations, appropriations and disbursements far below $350 billion.

About 25 million people entered the United States illegally during Biden's presidency.

Recorded nationwide encounters plus estimated evasions were far below 25 million, and encounters include repeat attempts and people rapidly expelled.

Nancy Pelosi rejected an offer of 10,000 National Guard troops for January 6.

No evidence established such an offer to Pelosi, and the House speaker did not control the D.C. National Guard.

The House January 6 committee deleted and destroyed all of its information.

The committee preserved extensive evidence with the National Archives and publicly released its report, more than 100 transcripts and other records.

The United States had almost no inflation.

Consumer prices were 2.9% higher than a year earlier and the inflation rate had risen for four consecutive months.

Chicago was the murder capital of the world.

International homicide-rate comparisons did not place Chicago among the world's highest-ranked cities, though Chicago had a high number of murders among large U.S. cities.

Washington, D.C., had become a crime-free zone with no crime.

Crime continued to occur in Washington; short-term declines after the federal deployment did not make the city crime-free.

Washington, D.C., always has one murder every week.

Weekly homicide totals vary, and the absolute formulation was contradicted by homicide-free stretches.

An 11-day span without D.C. homicides was the first time that had happened in years.

D.C. had a 16-day period without a reported homicide earlier in 2025, from February 25 to March 12.

A week without a Washington, D.C., murder was the first such week in anyone's memory.

Washington had already experienced a 16-day period without a reported homicide earlier in 2025.

Washington, D.C., hit an all-time high in total crime in 2024.

Official data showed violent crime fell sharply in 2024 and was far below historical peaks; the broad all-time-high claim was unsupported.

The United States had spent $350 billion on Ukraine.

U.S. Ukraine-related appropriations and support made available were far lower than $350 billion.

Europe had spent only $100 billion on Ukraine.

Comparable direct-aid tracking showed European allocations exceeded U.S. allocations.

The United States is the only country that uses mail-in voting.

Numerous other countries permit mail voting for all or some voters.

States are agents of the president in counting votes and must follow his instructions.

States administer elections under constitutional authority with congressional, not presidential, oversight.

Mail-in voting causes massive voter fraud.

Fraud is rare and has not been shown at a scale that changed a national election.

Voting machines are highly inaccurate.

Audits and election-security reviews found no evidence that voting systems changed the 2020 result.

Paper ballots produce election results that night, unlike voting machines that take two weeks.

Paper ballots still require counting and verification, and election-night totals are unofficial.

The United States had spent more than $300 billion, possibly $350 billion, on Ukraine.

The reviewed U.S. appropriations and oversight totals were far below the figure Trump gave.

The United States had given Ukraine $350 billion.

FactCheck.org found Congress approved about $174 billion and an oversight report put total U.S. support made available at more than $187 billion.

Europe had given Ukraine only $100 billion.

Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European direct aid allocations exceeded the U.S. total.

Washington, D.C., had 41 homicides per 100,000 people and ranked first in the world.

The city had a high homicide rate, but the international ranking and absolute comparison were not supported.

Murders in Washington, D.C., reached the highest rate probably ever in 2023.

The 2023 rate was the highest in about 20 years, but the city peaked in 1991 at more than twice the 2023 rate.

More than $17 trillion in investment commitments was coming into the United States.

The administration's total mixed multiyear pledges, trade targets, previously planned spending and purchases; independent reviews put substantiated new investment far below $17 trillion.

The 2020 presidential election was 100% rigged.

Courts, audits, election officials and Trump's own Justice Department found no fraud sufficient to change the certified result.

India had the highest tariffs of any country.

India's average tariff was high, especially for agricultural goods, but international tariff data did not rank it as the world's highest-tariff country.

Strong Biden-era jobs numbers were announced just before the 2024 election and declared wrong immediately afterward.

The preliminary annual benchmark revision was announced in August 2024, months before the election; routine later revisions were not an immediate post-election reversal.

A large downward jobs revision was released just after the 2024 election to help Biden and Harris.

The preliminary annual benchmark revision was announced in August 2024, before the election, and the November jobs report itself showed weak growth.

The 2020 presidential election was stolen or decided by cheating.

No evidence established outcome-changing fraud, and courts, election officials and Trump's own Justice Department rejected or failed to substantiate the allegation.

Democrats paid Beyoncé $11 million for endorsing Kamala Harris.

Campaign filings and the performer’s representatives did not support an $11 million endorsement payment.

The administration had wiped out inflation.

Consumer prices were still rising; the Consumer Price Index increased 2.7% over the year ending in June.

Japan gave the United States $550 billion up front as a signing bonus under the trade agreement.

The agreement described a $550 billion investment commitment for U.S. projects, not an upfront cash payment or signing bonus.

The Federal Reserve renovation had reached about $3.1 billion.

The Federal Reserve listed a Board-approved budget of $2.46 billion for renovating the Eccles and 1951 Constitution Avenue buildings.

The GENIUS Act was named after Trump.

The enacted law states that GENIUS abbreviates 'Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins'; its official title does not name Trump.

More than $16 trillion of investment was coming into the United States since Trump's return to office.

The administration's list mixed multiyear pledges, trade targets, previously planned spending and non-investment purchases; independent reviews found the substantiated total far below $16 trillion.

The Jeffrey Epstein files were made up by James Comey, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Federal investigations and records concerning Epstein predated the Biden administration and involved multiple agencies and administrations.

Inflation was dead.

The Consumer Price Index was still rising, up 2.7% over the year ending in June.

Gasoline prices were at their lowest level in five decades.

The national average was similar in 2021 and was slightly higher than when Trump took office.

Statewide gasoline prices had fallen to $1.95 to $1.99 per gallon.

No statewide AAA average was below $2; the lowest was about $2.70.

China had very few wind farms.

China had the world's largest installed wind-power capacity and was adding turbines at a record pace.

The administration had already cured inflation.

Consumer prices were still rising; annual inflation was 2.7% in June.

At least 21 million unauthorized immigrants entered the United States during Biden's presidency.

The figure was roughly double the combined total of recorded encounters and estimated evasions, and encounters include repeat attempts rather than unique people admitted into the country.

Kamala Harris never visited the border.

Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border area in El Paso, Texas, in June 2021 while serving as vice president.

California's high-speed rail project cost about 40 times more than planned.

The projected cost had risen from roughly $33 billion to more than $100 billion—about three to four times the original estimate, not 40 times.

Trump won 92% of the farm vote in the 2024 election.

Trump won a large majority among rural and farming constituencies, but available election surveys did not support a 92% national farm-vote share.

Failure to pass the bill would cause a 68% tax increase.

The claim far exceeded estimates of the expiring and proposed tax provisions; the Joint Committee on Taxation's combined estimate was about 10.7%.

Not approving the bill would raise taxes by 68%.

Independent and congressional estimates did not support 68%; the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated a combined change of about 10.7%.

Failure to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill would cause a 68% tax increase.

No supporting analysis produced that figure; Joint Committee on Taxation estimates put the combined change at about 10.7%.

The bill left Medicaid alone and unchanged.

The bill reduced projected Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, added eligibility requirements and was projected to cause millions to lose coverage.

Trump's repeated campaign promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours had been sarcastic.

CNN identified dozens of campaign appearances in which Trump delivered the promise seriously rather than as a joke.

The United States had no inflation.

Consumer prices rose 2.4% over the year ending in May and also increased month over month.

Trump defeated the ISIS territorial caliphate within a matter of weeks.

The territorial caliphate was declared defeated more than two years into Trump's first presidency.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a communist.

Mamdani identified as a democratic socialist and advocated electoral, mixed-economy policies rather than abolition of private property or one-party communist rule.

The United States destroyed all of Iran's nuclear facilities and nuclear capability.

Iran retained nuclear material, technical expertise, centrifuge-manufacturing capacity and sites outside the three attacked facilities.

All Iranian nuclear sites suffered monumental damage and obliteration was an accurate description.

The U.S. struck three sites, not all Iranian nuclear sites, and available assessments did not support complete destruction of the program.

The U.S. Intelligence Community was wrong because Iran was building a nuclear weapon.

The Intelligence Community assessed that Iran was not building a weapon and that its leader had not authorized the suspended weapons program.

Tariffs had brought in $88 billion with no inflation.

The $88 billion figure covered a much longer fiscal-year period than Trump's new tariffs, and consumer prices were still rising rather than showing zero inflation.

The United States had no inflation.

The Consumer Price Index was still rising year over year; slower inflation is not the same as no inflation.

Inflation during Biden's presidency was the highest in United States history.

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, the highest in about four decades but well below historical peaks exceeding 20%.

Trump won the 2020 presidential election by a lot.

Certified state results show Joe Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electoral votes and a national popular-vote margin of more than 7 million; audits and court cases found no outcome-changing fraud.

Justin Trudeau helped throw Russia out of the G8.

The G7 leaders suspended Russia in March 2014 after its actions in Ukraine, when Stephen Harper—not Justin Trudeau—was Canada's prime minister.

Tariffs produced $88 billion in two months.

April and May tariff collections were less than half that figure; the cited total resembled a much longer fiscal-year period.

Los Angeles was being invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy.

The events were domestic protests surrounding immigration raids, not a military invasion by a foreign state or army.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Audits, recounts, court cases and election-security officials found no fraud capable of changing the result.

Tariffs on China during Trump's first term took in hundreds of billions of dollars.

The claim substantially overstated first-term tariff collections; official receipts and analyses put China-tariff revenue well below multiple hundreds of billions, and the duties were collected from U.S. importers.

California's high-speed rail project was 20 times over budget.

The project's estimated cost had risen from roughly $33 billion to more than $100 billion—an enormous overrun, but about three to four times the original estimate, not 20 times.

Failure to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill would cause a 68% tax increase.

The figure compared expiring provisions with the bill's full mix of tax changes and did not represent the average increase taxpayers would face.

Using an autopen to sign presidential pardons or executive actions made those documents illegal or invalid.

Longstanding Justice Department guidance says a president may direct an autopen signature; validity turns on presidential authorization, not whether a pen was held personally.

Before Trump returned to office, nobody wanted to join the military.

Military recruiting had already improved during fiscal 2024, before the 2024 election, with nearly every service reaching its annual goal.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Recounts, audits, court rulings and election-security officials found no fraud capable of changing the certified result.

Biden let 21 million people into the United States, including people released from prisons and mental institutions.

The figure far exceeded documented border encounters, which are events rather than unique admissions, and no evidence showed foreign governments emptied institutions into the United States.

Harvard refused to identify its international students to the government.

Harvard had supplied required student records while contesting broader demands.

Russia stole United States hypersonic-missile technology during the Obama administration.

No public evidence supports the allegation; Russia and the United States pursued hypersonic systems through longstanding independent programs.

The video shown in the Oval Office depicted burial sites for about 1,000 white South African farmers.

The footage showed a memorial demonstration with white crosses, not an actual burial site for the people named in the claim.

White South African farmers were being killed in a genocide.

The repeated genocide framing was not supported by experts, crime statistics or the South African government's record; farm murders were real but did not establish genocide.

The House bill did not change Medicaid and only cut waste, fraud and abuse.

The legislation included eligibility and financing changes projected to reduce enrollment and federal spending.

Trump won three presidential elections.

Trump won the 2016 and 2024 elections but lost the certified 2020 election to Joe Biden.

The United States had substantially more than $10 trillion in new investment commitments.

The White House's published list was far below $10 trillion and included multiyear pledges and commercial agreements rather than completed investment.

Egg prices were down 97% or 98% from where they had been.

Retail egg prices fell 12.7% in April from March's record, not 97% or 98%, and remained 49.3% higher than a year earlier.

Illegal border crossings had fallen 99.999%, with only three people getting through the southern border in the prior month.

Crossings fell sharply, but official April data recorded thousands of Border Patrol apprehensions, not three, and did not support a 99.999% decline.

U.S. military enlistments were the highest in 30 years or perhaps ever.

Recruiting improved, including gains that began in fiscal 2024, but the services had not published a comparable 30-year record supporting the superlative.

The United States had no inflation.

Consumer prices were still 2.3% higher in April than a year earlier; a one-month decline in March did not mean inflation had disappeared.

More than $10 trillion in new U.S. investment had been announced or was coming since the election.

The White House's published list was far below $10 trillion and included multiyear pledges and commercial agreements rather than completed investment.

TSMC was investing $200 billion in the United States.

TSMC's announced U.S. investment plan totaled $165 billion: an existing $65 billion commitment plus an additional $100 billion announced in March.

Biden's Medicare negotiations made five of ten selected drugs more expensive than before negotiation.

Five negotiated prices remained more than twice comparable-country averages, but the negotiations still reduced their U.S. prices.

A genocide was taking place against white farmers in South Africa.

Farm attacks and killings occur, but experts and available crime data did not establish a government-backed or group-destruction campaign meeting the genocide claim.

The South African government was confiscating white farmers' land.

South Africa's expropriation law allows takings only under defined public-interest conditions with legal process; reviewed evidence did not show government confiscation of white-owned farms.

The proposed transfer of Qatar's Boeing 747 was a very public and transparent transaction.

At the time of the claim, the legal arrangement, final recipient and transfer terms had not been publicly explained.

The United States had secured close to $10 trillion in new investment in roughly two months.

The White House tally was far lower and included broad commitments rather than verified completed investment; independent review found the near-$10 trillion figure unsupported.

Declining cargo traffic at U.S. ports meant the United States was losing less money.

Lower import volume can reduce customs receipts and signal trade disruption; economists did not support the claim that a port slowdown itself meant the country was financially better off.

The Digital Equity Act was an illegal race-based handout.

The law funded broadband access and digital-skills programs for covered populations including rural residents, veterans, older adults and people with disabilities; it was not limited to race and had not been ruled illegal.

The United States subsidized Canada by about $200 billion per year.

A trade deficit is not a subsidy, and official 2024 figures put the goods-and-services deficit around $45 billion, far below $200 billion.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Recounts, audits, court rulings and federal and state election officials found no fraud capable of changing Joe Biden's certified victory.

Gasoline had fallen to $1.88 per gallon.

No state average was close to $1.88; the lowest state average was about $2.66 and the national average was above $3 per gallon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prices were going down, not up.

The Consumer Price Index and food-at-home index were still rising in the available data; the statement was not true as a broad price claim.

Gasoline was averaging $1.98 in several states.

No statewide average was below $2; the national average was above $3.

Retail egg prices had fallen 93% or 94% since inauguration.

The latest retail average was higher than in January.

Grocery prices were down.

The food-at-home index increased in the latest available month.

Trump's first term produced the greatest economy in United States history.

Economic measures did not establish a historical best: earlier periods recorded stronger growth, lower unemployment or other superior results, and the first term ended with the pandemic recession.

Gasoline had fallen to $1.98 per gallon in several states.

No state average was near $1.98; Mississippi and Tennessee had the lowest averages at about $2.71 per gallon.

The administration had already solved inflation.

Prices were still rising, though the annual rate had slowed.

China had a $1 trillion annual trade surplus with the United States.

Official 2024 data put the U.S. goods-and-services deficit with China near $263 billion and the goods-only deficit near $295 billion.

Japan paid nothing toward the cost of the United States military presence there.

Japan provided billions per year in cash, in-kind and indirect support; GAO recorded $12.6 billion in direct and in-kind support from 2016 through 2019.

The European Union was formed to take advantage of the United States.

European integration was supported by successive U.S. administrations to stabilize Western Europe and promote shared security and prosperity.

Trump went four years essentially without inflation during his first term.

Consumer prices rose about 8% over the term, and year-over-year inflation was 1.4% in January 2021.

Trump built 571 miles of southern border wall during his first term.

Official data recorded 458 miles, much of it replacing preexisting barriers.

The United States was collecting $2 billion per day from tariffs.

Treasury data showed customs duties of about $258.8 million per day in February and $263.5 million per day in March, while Customs and Border Protection cited more than $200 million per day in additional tariff revenue.

Coal-fired power plants were being opened all over Germany.

Germany temporarily restarted a handful of older plants during the 2022 energy crisis, closed them again in 2024 and maintained plans to end coal-fired generation by 2038.

The United States subsidized Canada by close to $200 billion per year.

Official 2024 data put the bilateral goods-and-services trade deficit near $36 billion and the goods-only deficit near $71 billion, with no basis for a $200 billion subsidy figure.

Before Trump, China never paid ten cents in tariffs to any United States president.

The United States collected billions annually from tariffs on Chinese imports before Trump and had imposed tariffs on Chinese goods for generations.

The tariff era from 1789 to 1913 was proportionately the wealthiest period in United States history.

Standard measures such as real per-capita output and living standards are many times higher today; fiscal surpluses do not make the historical claim true.

Biden presided over the highest inflation in United States history.

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in 2022, the highest in about 40 years but far below the historical peak of 23.7% in 1920.

Trump had already brought gasoline prices way down to well under $3 nationally.

The national average was about $3.24, higher than the roughly $3.12 average on inauguration day; sub-$3 prices were regional rather than nationwide.

Joe Biden was essentially found guilty in the classified-documents investigation but was not charged because he was incompetent.

The special counsel did not find Biden guilty and wrote that the evidence did not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; there was no judicial ruling.

Illegal immigration was at its lowest level ever when Trump left office in January 2021.

The chart Trump cited pointed to April 2020; crossings then rose every month through the end of his first term.

The United States had spent about $350 billion on Ukraine while Europe spent only $100 billion.

U.S. oversight put appropriations near $183 billion, while comparable tracking showed Europe had allocated and committed more aid than the United States.

Recent United States elections were totally rigged.

Audits, court proceedings and election-security reviews found no evidence that recent federal elections were rigged.

Iran gave no money to Hamas or Hezbollah during Trump's first term.

Iranian support declined under sanctions but continued; Trump's own administration reported ongoing Iranian funding for Hezbollah and other groups.

The Biden administration had an electric-vehicle mandate.

The policy was a nonbinding sales goal plus emissions standards, not a purchase mandate.

Biden-era inflation was possibly the worst in U.S. history.

The 2022 peak was the highest in about four decades, not in U.S. history.

The United States spent about $350 billion on Ukraine while Europe spent $100 billion.

The U.S. figure was inflated and comparable European aid exceeded U.S. aid.

The United States had more oil and natural-gas reserves than any other nation by far.

International estimates generally placed the U.S. below several countries for both crude-oil and recoverable natural-gas reserves.

Thirty-eight thousand American lives were lost building the Panama Canal.

FactCheck.org found the death total during the U.S. construction phase was far lower and that fewer than 1,000 of those deaths were Americans.

Panama had ceded operation of the Panama Canal to China.

Panama continued to operate the canal; a Hong Kong company managed ports at either end but did not run the canal itself.

A $1.9 billion home-decarbonization committee was headed by Stacey Abrams.

The EPA grant went to a five-organization coalition; Abrams had previously worked for one member but did not head the coalition or receive the grant.

The Paris climate agreement was costing the United States trillions of dollars.

The agreement itself did not impose a trillions-of-dollars cost; the figure came from a disputed projection that omitted gains from a clean-energy transition.

DOGE found $8 million in government spending for making mice transgender.

The identified projects involved feminizing hormone treatment in monkeys for HIV research and totaled under $500,000; the cited $8 million mouse claim was not substantiated.

Trump had terminated Biden's Green New Deal or Green New Scam.

The original Green New Deal resolution never became law, and the Inflation Reduction Act's major climate provisions were still in force and could not be repealed by presidential action alone.

The United States had provided Ukraine $350 billion.

U.S. government oversight put Ukraine-response funding made available at about $183 billion, including spending outside Ukraine.

Europe had provided much less assistance to Ukraine than the United States.

Comparable Kiel Institute figures showed Europe had allocated more direct aid than the United States.

The United States had provided Ukraine between $300 billion and $350 billion.

Congressional and oversight totals were roughly $174 billion to $183 billion, far below the range Trump gave.

The United States provided Ukraine $350 billion in wartime aid.

U.S. oversight data put total Ukraine-response funding below $200 billion, including money spent in the United States and elsewhere rather than transferred to Ukraine.

Europe provided Ukraine only $100 billion in wartime aid.

Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European commitments and allocations exceeded the totals for the United States.

The Obama administration gave Ukraine only sheets rather than meaningful security assistance.

Although Obama declined to provide lethal weapons, his administration supplied more than $600 million in security assistance, including radars, armored vehicles, drones and night-vision equipment.

The European Union essentially did not accept United States agricultural products.

The EU bought $12.3 billion in U.S. agricultural and related exports in fiscal 2023, making it the fourth-largest export market.

The European Union was formed to harm the United States.

European integration was supported by successive U.S. administrations as a way to stabilize Western Europe and promote shared security and prosperity.

No president before Trump collected even ten cents in tariffs on Chinese imports.

The United States collected billions of dollars annually in tariff revenue on Chinese imports before Trump took office.

The United States lost $200 billion per year to Canada through trade.

Official 2023 data put the goods-and-services trade deficit near $41 billion and the goods-only deficit near $72 billion.

There was no inflation during Trump's first term.

Consumer prices rose about 8% across Trump's first term and year-over-year inflation was 1.4% when he left office.

Inflation was stopping by the February 26 Cabinet meeting.

Year-over-year inflation had risen to 3% in January, and available data did not show that price increases had stopped.

The United States ranked 40th out of 40 countries in education.

International assessments placed the United States above average in reading and science and below average, but far from last, in mathematics.

Fentanyl killed close to 300,000 Americans per year.

CDC estimates showed about 55,000 deaths involving synthetic opioids in the 12 months ending September 2024; even the peak remained below 80,000.

Trump eliminated the ISIS territorial caliphate in three weeks.

The final territorial defeat occurred more than two years into Trump's first presidency.

The United States was the only country in the world with mail-in voting.

Numerous countries, including Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Spain, allow postal voting for some or all voters.

The United States had provided Ukraine $350 billion.

Congress had appropriated about $174 billion in Ukraine-related funding, while the broad U.S. oversight total was about $183 billion.

Europe had provided Ukraine only about $100 billion.

Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European aid allocations exceeded U.S. allocations.

Trump's official 77 million-vote total was actually much higher because votes for him were discarded or otherwise lost through cheating.

There was no evidence of large-scale fraud or discarded Trump votes; the certified count was about 77.3 million.

The Biden administration got no hostages released from Gaza.

More than 100 hostages were released during a November 2023 truce negotiated with involvement from the Biden administration, and additional releases occurred before Trump returned to office.

Trump had the highest approval rating of any Republican president.

Gallup polling recorded substantially higher approval ratings for several Republican presidents, including George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

The United States provided Ukraine $350 billion in wartime aid.

U.S. oversight data put total Ukraine-response funding below $200 billion, including money spent in the United States and elsewhere rather than transferred to Ukraine.

Europe provided Ukraine only $100 billion in wartime aid.

Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European commitments and allocations exceeded the totals for the United States.

About 15 years earlier, autism affected only one child in 10,000 or 20,000.

CDC monitoring for children born around that period estimated prevalence near one in 68, not one in 10,000 or 20,000.

Thirty-eight thousand Americans died while building the Panama Canal.

Historical records put the American death toll during the U.S. construction period at roughly 5,600; the much larger overall toll included mostly Caribbean workers from both construction eras.

Iran provided no money to Hamas or Hezbollah during Trump's first term.

Iran continued funding and supporting both groups during Trump's first term, though sanctions strained its finances.

The United States had a trade deficit of more than $1 trillion with China.

Official data put the annual U.S. goods-and-services trade deficit with China far below $1 trillion.

The Biden administration required everybody to buy an electric vehicle.

Biden-era rules and targets encouraged electric-vehicle adoption but did not require every person to buy one.

The tariff-heavy period from 1870 to 1913 was the richest period in United States history.

Inflation-adjusted output and income per person are far higher today; tariff revenue alone does not establish that the earlier period was the country's richest.

California had only just finished voting and people were still voting a week and a half earlier.

California certified its statewide 2024 election results on December 13; later counting did not mean people were still voting.

The Carter-Baker election commission concluded that mail-in voting causes massive fraud.

The commission discussed absentee-ballot vulnerabilities and safeguards but did not conclude that mail voting invariably produces massive fraud.

Biden-era inflation was probably the worst in U.S. history.

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in 2022, the highest in about four decades but below multiple earlier U.S. episodes.

The Biden administration imposed an electric-vehicle mandate.

Federal rules set fleet emissions and efficiency requirements but did not require consumers to buy electric vehicles.

The United States spent $100 million on condoms for Hamas.

The cited grants were not for Hamas or Gaza; the identified health-services award was for Mozambique, and no second $50 million Gaza-condom award was substantiated.

Tariff revenue could wipe out the federal income tax.

Replacing individual income-tax revenue would require tariff rates and import values far beyond plausible levels, while high tariffs would also reduce imports and their tax base.

Thirty-eight thousand Americans died building the Panama Canal.

About 7,600 workers died during the U.S. construction phase, and fewer than 1,000 were Americans.

China had essentially taken over the Panama Canal.

Panama operated the canal; a Hong Kong company managed ports near its entrances but did not control canal operations.

The United States ranked last among 40 countries in education while ranking first in spending per pupil.

International education and spending comparisons did not support both parts of the claim.

The United States had given Ukraine $350 billion.

Congress had appropriated about $174 billion, roughly half the amount claimed.

Europe had contributed only $100 billion to Ukraine, far less than the United States.

Comparable tracking showed European allocations exceeded the U.S. total.

Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's approval rating was 4%.

No identified poll supported 4%; a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey conducted that month found 57% trusted Zelenskyy.

The U.S. trade deficit with India was almost $100 billion.

Official 2024 data put the U.S. goods deficit with India at $45.7 billion, less than half the claimed amount; including services reduced the overall deficit further.

The United States had more oil and natural gas than any other country.

International estimates place several countries above the United States in proved oil reserves or natural-gas reserves.

The United States had spent about $200 billion more than Europe on Ukraine.

Comparable aid tracking showed European allocations exceeded the U.S. total rather than trailing it by $200 billion.

The United States had provided Ukraine $350 billion.

Congress had appropriated about $174 billion in Ukraine-related funding, while the broader oversight total was about $183 billion.

Europe had provided Ukraine only about $100 billion.

Comparable aid tracking showed Europe had allocated more direct assistance than the United States.

The United States ranked last in education out of 40 countries while ranking first in spending per pupil.

International education and spending comparisons did not support both parts of the claim.

The United States had a trade deficit with Japan of more than $100 billion.

BEA reported a $68.5 billion U.S. goods deficit with Japan in 2024; the United States also ran a services surplus, leaving the combined deficit further below $100 billion.

Alaska alone had more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia.

International reserve estimates place Saudi Arabia's proved oil reserves far above Alaska's; combining oil and gas does not produce a standard reserve measure supporting the claim.

The United States had more oil and natural gas than any other country.

International estimates place several countries above the United States in proved oil reserves or natural-gas reserves.

CBS News and 60 Minutes replaced Kamala Harris's interview answers with completely different, better answers from another part of the interview.

The two broadcasts used different portions of the same answer; the released transcript did not show CBS replacing an answer with a different response.

The United States had a trade deficit with Canada approaching $200 billion.

Official 2024 data put the goods deficit near $64 billion and the combined goods-and-services deficit lower still, far below $200 billion.

The United States had a $250 billion trade deficit with Mexico.

Official 2024 goods data put the deficit with Mexico at roughly $172 billion, and including services did not raise it to $250 billion.

Thirty-eight thousand men were lost building the Panama Canal.

About 7,600 workers died during the U.S. construction phase, and fewer than 1,000 of them were Americans.

The United States had provided Ukraine more than $300 billion while Europe provided about $100 billion.

Congress had appropriated roughly $174 billion in Ukraine-related funding, while comparable European commitments and allocations exceeded the amount Trump attributed to Europe.

Trump reversed an Obama air-traffic-controller hiring policy and Biden later reversed Trump's change.

The relevant diversity hiring initiative and controller qualification rules did not follow the sequence Trump described.

FAA diversity policy allowed people with severe intellectual, psychiatric or physical disabilities to work as air traffic controllers without normal qualifications.

The targeted-disabilities language applied to recruitment across the FAA, while controller applicants still had to satisfy medical, aptitude, training and certification requirements.

The United States planned to spend $50 million on condoms for Hamas in Gaza.

The identified aid contract was for health services in Mozambique and did not fund condoms for Hamas.

The Biden administration imposed an electric-vehicle mandate that prevented consumers from choosing gasoline or hybrid cars.

Federal rules set fleet emissions and efficiency standards but did not require consumers to buy electric vehicles or prohibit gasoline and hybrid cars.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no outcome-changing fraud; Trump repeated the allegation at the House Republican conference.

Biden-era inflation was the most brutal in United States history.

Inflation peaked at 9.1% in 2022, the highest in about four decades but below multiple earlier U.S. episodes.

The United States has more oil and gas than any other country on Earth.

International estimates place several countries above the United States in proved oil reserves or natural-gas reserves.

The FBI was involved in causing the January 6 attack.

The Justice Department inspector general found no evidence that undercover FBI employees were in the protest crowds or at the Capitol.

Murderers in Philadelphia and Los Angeles often receive no prison time.

State murder penalties and Justice Department data did not support the broad comparison Trump used to justify the pardons.

Trump won the youth vote by 36 percentage points in 2024.

AP VoteCast found Harris won voters ages 18 to 29 by four points, and other survey estimates likewise did not support a 36-point Trump margin.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no outcome-changing fraud; Trump repeated the allegation in the Hannity interview.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no outcome-changing fraud; Trump repeated the allegation during the January 21 press conference.

The United States experienced record inflation under Biden.

Inflation peaked at 9.1%, below several earlier U.S. episodes.

China operates the Panama Canal.

Panama operates the canal; a Hong Kong company managed ports at either end.

The United States has more oil and gas reserves than any country.

Several countries have larger estimated oil or natural-gas reserves.

The Biden administration imposed an electric-vehicle mandate.

Federal rules set emissions and efficiency requirements but did not require consumers to buy electric vehicles.

Thirty-eight thousand American lives were lost building the Panama Canal.

FactCheck.org found about 7,600 total deaths during the U.S. construction phase, with fewer than 1,000 of them Americans.

The 2020 election was totally rigged.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no outcome-changing fraud.

The House January 6 committee destroyed all its evidence.

The committee published an extensive report and supporting records.

Trump offered Nancy Pelosi 10,000 National Guard troops for January 6.

The congressional investigation found no evidence of such an offer or presidential order.

No presidential candidate had ever won Florida by 13 percentage points.

Trump did win Florida by about 13 points in 2024, but several earlier presidential candidates won the state by larger margins.

Trump won the youth vote by 36 percentage points in 2024.

Major exit polls showed Harris winning voters under 30; no reasonable youth-voter definition supported a 36-point Trump margin.

Trump rebuilt the entire United States military during his first term.

Most U.S. military equipment predated Trump's first administration, so the categorical claim that the entire military was rebuilt was false.

During Trump's first term, Iran had no money for Hezbollah or Hamas.

Iranian funding declined under sanctions but did not stop; Trump's own administration reported continued Iranian support for armed groups including Hezbollah.

Votes were still being counted after Congress certified the 2024 presidential result.

Congress had certified the completed electoral vote count; the statement mischaracterized the status of the election result.

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Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had agreed to the parameters of a deal that would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end Iran's nuclear threat.

AP found that mediators had a proposal and talks were continuing, but a regional official said no deal had been reached. Iran's Foreign Ministry said there were no current talks about reopening the strait. The post therefore overstated preliminary mediation as regional agreement on deal parameters.

Trump ended eight wars.

AP found the claim exaggerated: Trump has mediated between nations, but at least two cited cases were not wars to end and his role was less clear-cut than the claim suggests.

Andy Burnham planned to open up the North Sea to oil development.

Trump said Britain's new prime minister had told him he planned to open up the North Sea. The public record reviewed shows a narrower position: continued extraction from existing licensed areas and reviews of specific projects, not a broad commitment to entirely new drilling.

The auto industry is back and tariffs are reviving U.S. auto manufacturing.

Trump credited his tariffs with bringing the auto industry back. AP reported he made that case amid business criticism of tariff harm, while BLS industry data showed motor-vehicle-and-parts manufacturing employment down by 21,400 jobs from June 2025 to June 2026.

Washington is “almost a crime-free city” and crime fell 88%.

Crime was down, but police had recorded more than 11,000 crimes and 57 homicides in 2026. Overall crime was about 20% lower, not 88%.

The pledge guarantees families will not pay data-center electricity costs.

The commitment is voluntary, not a binding guarantee. States and Congress were separately considering enforceable requirements, and some signatories opposed such mandates.

Trump Accounts automatically take care of America’s youth.

Participation requires an election; the $1,000 is limited by birth-year and citizenship rules. Larger gains depend on market performance and additional contributions.

Thousands of undocumented immigrants voted in New Jersey.

The cited evidence did not establish thousands of noncitizen ballots.

China illicitly acquired files on 220 million U.S. voters and the government kept it secret.

Known cyber incidents and commercially available voter data did not support the full characterization.

U.S. election systems are easily compromised enough to alter results.

Foreign actors pose real threats, but audits and safeguards have not shown altered national results.

Michigan's fraudulent voter applications showed outcome-changing election fraud.

Officials intercepted suspicious applications before ballots were cast; the episode did not show altered results.

Artificial intelligence would need almost twice as much energy as the entire country produced.

High-end forecasts show very large demand growth, but did not support the broad near-term comparison as stated.

Biden raised rents 40% to 50% by housing undocumented immigrants in empty units.

Rents rose for multiple reasons and the claimed magnitude and single cause were not supported.

Trump Accounts give every child an automatic $1,000 federal contribution.

Accounts can be opened more broadly, but the federal pilot deposit requires an election and is limited to eligible U.S. citizens born from 2025 through 2028.

Trump was profiting because the stock market was rising and he held a lot of cash.

The explanation omitted the varied composition and valuation of his assets and did not establish the claimed causal account.

The Supreme Court ruled broadly against men playing in women's sports.

The ruling addressed specific state restrictions and did not resolve every policy covered by the broad characterization.

Religion was back in the United States, bigger and stronger than it had been in many years.

Multiple national surveys showed long-term declines or recent stability in affiliation and attendance rather than a broad religious resurgence.

The typical 401(k) had risen almost $30,000 in 13 months.

The estimate depended on selective assumptions and was not representative of every typical account holder.

Iran was very close to a nuclear weapon under the Obama-era deal.

The agreement imposed enrichment and monitoring limits and intelligence did not establish an imminent weapon.

The current economy exceeded the greatest economy ever in Trump's first term.

Several major indicators did not support either superlative.

More factories were being built than ever before.

Manufacturing construction remained elevated but had declined from its peak.

Obama emptied out banks around Washington to send $1.7 billion in cash to Iran.

The payment settled a decades-old U.S. debt and was made in foreign currency because sanctions blocked a dollar transfer; the bank-emptying description was unsupported.

Many January 6 defendants were arrested even though they never entered the Capitol building.

Some defendants were charged for conduct outside the building, but many outside cases involved assault, restricted-area breaches or other unlawful conduct; the statement omitted that context.

Coal is ‘clean’ without qualification.

Controls reduce some emissions, but burning coal still produces carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

Trump did not call the Iran war a war, only a conflict.

He had repeatedly called it a war, including later in the same Cabinet meeting.

Biden let 11,888 murderers into the United States.

The cited ICE docket covered people accumulated across multiple administrations and included people in custody, so it did not show that Biden let that number enter or roam free.

Fraudulent payments to people listed as 115 to 125 years old could save Social Security without benefit changes.

Old database records generally did not indicate active payments, and identified fraud was far too small to alter the program's finances.

No Republican wins in Nassau County.

Republicans had won multiple recent elections in Nassau County.

More Americans were working than at any time in U.S. history.

The raw employment count was high largely because the population had grown; employment and participation rates did not show an equivalent record.

Biden allowed 11,888 murderers into the United States.

The cited ICE docket accumulated cases over multiple decades, including Trump's first term, and includes people serving prison sentences.

The tax law created no tax on Social Security for seniors.

It created a temporary, income-limited deduction rather than eliminating Social Security taxation for every beneficiary.

The tax law created no tax on overtime.

The law provides a capped deduction for qualifying overtime compensation, not a universal elimination of all taxes on overtime pay.

The tax law created no tax on tips.

The law provides a capped deduction for qualifying tip income with eligibility restrictions, not a universal tax exemption.

Small businesses and farms have no inheritance or estate tax.

The law raised and extended the exemption threshold but did not repeal the estate tax.

U.S. strikes had totally obliterated three Iranian nuclear sites.

The strikes damaged the sites and set back enrichment, but expert and intelligence assessments did not support complete destruction of the sites or Iran’s nuclear capability.

Iran was right at the doorstep of possessing a nuclear bomb.

Arms-control experts found no evidence that a weapon was imminent or that Iran had resumed the necessary weaponization work before the operation.

The United States became the world’s leading oil and gas producer because of Trump’s leadership.

The United States became the top producer of natural gas and petroleum before Trump’s first presidential term, so the production ranking cannot be attributed solely to his leadership.

Iran's new leadership was less radical and more reasonable after regime change.

Iran's new supreme leader was viewed as at least as hard-line, while the Revolutionary Guard had gained influence.

The United States was totally independent of Middle Eastern oil and unaffected by regional supply.

Direct imports were limited, but globally traded oil prices and U.S. gasoline costs remained exposed to Middle Eastern disruption.

Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion in cash.

The payment settled a decades-old debt for military equipment the United States never delivered; it was not a gift.

The United States had achieved regime change.

Political change had occurred, but the claim overstated the administration’s demonstrated role and the stability of the outcome.

More Americans were working than at any time in U.S. history.

The head count was high because population grows, while the employment rate was below historical peaks.

The administration ended the estate tax for family farms and small businesses.

The law increased and extended the exemption but did not repeal the federal estate tax.

Elections cannot be accurate when mail-in ballots are used.

Mail voting is widely used with verification safeguards; documented fraud is rare and not shown to make mail elections inherently inaccurate.

Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz did not really affect the United States.

Although direct Persian Gulf imports were limited, the closure raised global oil prices and contributed to a sharp increase in U.S. gasoline prices.

Iran was responsible for the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school.

Available video, satellite imagery and expert analysis instead indicated that a U.S. strike was likely responsible, while the official investigation remained incomplete.

The United States had a virtually unlimited supply of munitions and could fight with them forever.

Stockpiles varied by weapon type; experts identified strained interceptor and precision-missile supplies that would require replenishment.

Earlier U.S. strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program.

The strikes damaged facilities but did not eliminate Iran's nuclear expertise or all material.

Trump inherited a stagnant economy.

Real GDP grew 2.8% in 2024, so the economy was not stagnant by that standard.

More Americans were working than at any time in history.

The raw number rises with population; the employment-to-population ratio remained below its 2000 peak.

The tax law delivered no tax on Social Security.

The temporary deduction does not eliminate tax for every beneficiary and is limited by age and income rules.

The economy was roaring like never before.

Growth was positive, but available measures did not establish an unprecedented boom.

The 43-day federal shutdown cost two percentage points of GDP growth.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis attributed one percentage point of reduced fourth-quarter growth to the shutdown, not two.

Prices were plummeting.

Some prices declined, but the broad consumer price index was still rising.

Americans now pay the lowest prescription-drug prices anywhere in the world.

Some negotiated cash prices fell, but the evidence did not show a broad decline to the world's lowest drug prices.

There had been a tremendous renewal of religion during Trump's time in office.

Gallup and Pew data showed long-term decline or stability rather than the claimed broad renewal.

Religious renewal was especially strong among young people.

Pew found no surge in religious belief among young adults, who remained less religious than older Americans.

Biden allowed 11,888 murderers into the United States.

The cited immigration docket accumulated cases over decades and did not show that Biden released that number.

Trump inherited rampant crime at home.

Violent crime and murder were already declining before he returned to office.

Tariffs could replace federal income taxes.

Projected tariff revenue was far below individual income-tax collections.

Iran's nuclear program was obliterated.

The strikes caused major damage but did not eliminate Iran's nuclear knowledge or all capabilities.

Republicans would always protect Medicaid without benefit cuts.

FactCheck.org noted Republican-backed legislation and budget plans included major Medicaid spending reductions and eligibility changes, making the blanket promise misleading.

Natural-gas production reached an all-time high because of Trump's drill-baby-drill policy.

Natural-gas production was at record levels, but it had also reached records before Trump returned to office, so the causal framing overstated his role.

Minneapolis crime fell 25% to 30% because thousands of criminals were removed.

Some crime measures declined, but the magnitude and claimed causal link were not established.

The U.S. crime rate was the lowest since 1900.

Recent violent-crime declines were real, but no consistent national series supports a precise comparison to 1900.

More factories and plants were being built than ever before.

Construction investment was elevated, but available measures did not establish an all-time record in the terms claimed.

The United States was leading China in artificial intelligence by a lot.

The U.S. led on several measures, but the broad claim omitted areas where China was competitive or ahead.

Groceries, energy, airfares, mortgage rates, rents and car payments were all coming down fast.

Some prices or rates had declined, but several major categories were mixed or still elevated; the across-the-board claim overstated the data.

Mass immigration and invasion were the main factor in high U.S. housing costs.

Immigration can affect local demand, but economists point to housing shortages, interest rates, zoning and construction constraints as larger drivers; the single-cause framing was misleading.

The United States had no inflation.

Overall prices were still rising, although some individual categories such as eggs and gasoline had declined.

The administration’s deportation effort was focused on murderers and drug dealers.

Detailed deportation data were unavailable, and about 74% of people then held in immigration detention had no criminal convictions.

One out of every four jobs added during Biden’s presidency was a government job.

Government positions accounted for about 11% of total job growth across Biden’s four years; a higher share applied only to a narrower selected period.

Trump had ended eight otherwise unendable wars in ten months.

Several cited conflicts were not conclusively ended, and renewed fighting or unresolved disputes remained.

The U.S. economy was booming after Trump's first year back in office.

The economy was growing and unemployment was low, but hiring had slowed sharply and inflation remained elevated.

Coal is clean.

Coal production is cleaner than it was historically, but burning coal still emits carbon dioxide and harmful air pollutants.

Trump’s 2024 election victory was a giant historical landslide.

His popular-vote margin was about 1.5 percentage points and his electoral total was smaller than several modern presidential victories.

For the first time in years, wages were rising faster than inflation.

Year-over-year wage growth had exceeded inflation since June 2023.

More Americans were working than ever before.

The raw count reflected population growth; the employment-to-population ratio was slightly lower than in January.

The administration had created 4,000 new manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania as part of a national manufacturing boom.

The Pennsylvania figure did not establish the broader claim; nationwide manufacturing employment was down by about 49,000 since January.

Health-insurance-company stocks rose more than 1,000% over a short period.

Some long-run gains were large, but the claim overstated the increase and compressed the time period.

Walmart's Thanksgiving meal showed a 25% cost reduction from Biden's presidency.

The 2025 basket cost less because products were removed or downsized, not because an equivalent meal became 25% cheaper.

Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal showed a 25% cost reduction from Biden’s presidency.

The baskets contained different items and quantities, preventing the direct price comparison Trump made.

Other countries were conducting nuclear explosive tests.

Russia tested nuclear-capable delivery systems, but North Korea was the only country to conduct a nuclear explosion this century.

Almost 50% of presidents have used the Insurrection Act and recent presidents used it 28 times.

The count overstated modern routine use; FactCheck.org reported 30 crises since 1794, with more than half before 1900 and the most recent use in 1992.

Trump solved eight wars.

Experts credited Trump with a role in some conflicts, but several cited disputes were not wars, remained unresolved, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

Trump beat his criminal cases before running for president.

The timeline was backwards for key federal cases: winning the 2024 election led the Justice Department to drop prosecutions under its sitting-president policy.

Almost half of U.S. presidents used the Insurrection Act and it is unquestioned power.

About 37% of presidents had invoked the act, not half, and legal experts said courts can still review an invocation's legality.

Trump settled eight wars in eight months.

He had a role in some ceasefires and accords, but several cited conflicts remained unresolved, were diplomatic disputes rather than wars, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

The Iran nuclear deal turned out to be a disaster.

The claim omitted that Iran had largely complied with the agreement before Trump withdrew from it and that experts credited the pact with limiting Iran's nuclear program.

Obama and Biden did nothing with the Abraham Accords.

Obama left office before the Abraham Accords existed, and Biden pursued Saudi normalization efforts that stalled after the Gaza war.

Trump had settled seven wars or major conflicts before the Gaza ceasefire.

The tally included diplomatic disputes or conflicts that had not fully ended, even after peace agreements or ceasefires.

The One Big Beautiful Bill means no tax on Social Security.

The law created a temporary deduction for some older taxpayers but did not eliminate taxation of Social Security benefits.

Portland had insurrectionists all over the place.

Arrests and clashes occurred around the ICE facility, but available reporting showed limited, localized protests rather than a citywide insurrection.

Trump had settled seven wars.

Several examples were not wars or remained violent and unresolved; the claimed tally overstated both settlement and Trump's role.

Trump had settled seven wars.

Several cited disputes were not wars or were not conclusively settled, and experts disputed the claimed role in multiple examples.

Trump had ended seven unendable wars.

Trump played a role in some ceasefires and accords, but several cited conflicts were not wars, remained violent or unresolved, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

Wind energy does not work because the wind does not always blow.

Wind is variable, but grids use multiple power sources and storage rather than relying on wind alone.

Coal is clean, beautiful coal.

Coal plants can use pollution controls, but coal combustion still emits pollutants and more carbon dioxide than other fossil-fuel power sources.

The Biden administration lost more than 300,000 migrant children, many of whom were raped, exploited, abused, sold or killed.

The cited inspector general report covered years spanning both administrations and did not establish that hundreds of thousands of children were missing or harmed.

Autism rates rose from about 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 to about 1 in 31 because children are taking something artificial.

Reported autism prevalence has risen, but researchers attribute much of the change to broader definitions, awareness and diagnostic practices rather than a demonstrated pharmaceutical cause.

Trump had ended seven wars, four through tariff threats.

Experts credited him with a significant role in ending fighting in some conflicts, but several examples were not wars or were not conclusively settled.

Cashless bail lets people accused of murder get out instead of remaining in jail.

FactCheck.org found no serious bail-reform model required automatic release for murder suspects; judges generally retain detention authority.

Crime was out of control in Washington, D.C., with rising violence.

Washington had serious crime problems, but official and independent data showed violent crime had fallen since the 2023 spike.

Every place in the country with no cash bail is a disaster and the policy started crime problems in New York and Chicago.

Research and city data did not support a broad causal claim that bail reform worsened crime in those places.

Under no-cash-bail policies, murder suspects are released before the day is out.

Some jurisdictions allow judges to release murder suspects without cash bail in rare cases, but many policies have violent-felony exemptions or detention discretion.

Business investment was way up in the second quarter.

The advance GDP report said overall investment decreased and partly offset GDP growth; the data did not support the broad description that business investment was way up.

Trump had stopped six wars since returning to office.

Several cited disputes were not wars conclusively ended by Trump, and some remained unresolved.

Japan was giving the United States $550 billion under the new trade deal.

Japan made a $550 billion investment commitment for U.S.-selected projects; it was not a cash gift to the United States.

June's federal surplus resulted from good management and tariffs and was unprecedented for decades.

Payment timing produced the monthly surplus; the government still had a large year-to-date deficit and had recorded other monthly surpluses more recently.

Prices were down across the economy.

Some categories declined, but the overall Consumer Price Index rose between January and June.

Gasoline prices were way down because of the administration.

The national average was roughly unchanged from inauguration and its longer decline primarily reflected global crude-oil markets.

Biden policies caused egg prices to be four times higher before Trump brought them down.

Egg prices had declined since January, but economists cited avian flu and seasonal supply effects as the main drivers rather than Biden policy or a new Trump-only fix.

Biden and Harris let roughly 13,000 convicted murderers into the United States.

The cited ICE docket figure accumulated over decades, included some lawful noncitizens, and did not show that those people entered or were released under Biden and Harris.

The One Big Beautiful Bill delivered no tax on Social Security.

The measure provided a temporary, income-limited deduction rather than eliminating Social Security taxation for every beneficiary.

The bill would cut $1.7 trillion and people would not feel any of the cuts.

The $1.7 trillion referred to mandatory-program savings under a favorable budget baseline, while Medicaid and food-assistance reductions were expected to affect enrollment and household benefits.

The bill would immediately increase take-home pay for a normal family of four by at least $13,000.

The figure was the high end of an optimistic White House projection that assumed unusually strong growth; independent models projected much smaller gains.

The U.S. strikes had obliterated Iran's nuclear sites.

The strikes severely damaged the sites, but contemporaneous assessments did not establish complete destruction of Iran's facilities or capability.

U.S. strikes completely and totally obliterated Iran's key nuclear-enrichment facilities.

The strikes caused severe damage, but early intelligence and independent experts found surviving underground structures, material and enrichment capability.

California imposed a 100% ban on all new gas-powered cars.

The rule required all new light-duty vehicle sales to meet zero-emission standards by model year 2035, but it allowed plug-in hybrids with gasoline engines to account for up to 20% of compliance vehicles and did not bar used gasoline-car sales.

The government spent $20 million on an Arab Sesame Street program that nobody could find.

The funding supported Ahlan Simsim, a documented Arabic-language educational program for children affected by conflict; describing it as untraceable omitted what the program did.

The government spent $8 million making mice transgender.

The grants studied how gender-affirming hormones affected health conditions in mice; they did not seek to change the animals' sex or gender identity.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act received votes from 99 senators and 408 House members.

The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent without a 99-member recorded vote, and the House roll call was 409-2, not 408.

Groceries were down.

The food-at-home index fell 0.4% in April, but remained higher than a year earlier and had not broadly reversed the cumulative rise in grocery prices.

Groceries, gasoline, energy and all other prices were down.

Some energy prices and the April food-at-home index declined over short periods, but food remained more expensive than a year earlier and prices overall were still rising.

U.S. drug prices were generally five to ten times higher than in the rest of the developed world.

Some individual brand-name drugs showed gaps in that range, but the overall average was closer to three times and U.S. generic prices were generally lower.

Qatar's Boeing 747 gift would be free of charge to the United States.

Although Qatar supplied the aircraft without a purchase price, converting it for presidential use was expected to require tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in security, communications and survivability work.

Companies were building U.S. plants because of Trump's tariffs.

Some companies announced U.S. projects, but several commitments predated the tariffs or had other drivers; the evidence did not support a broad tariff-causation claim.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

China paid the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in first-term tariffs.

U.S. importers paid the tariffs, with studies finding American purchasers bore most of the cost.

Environmental regulations were principally responsible for the decline of the United States coal industry.

Energy researchers identified cheaper natural gas, lower demand, renewable-energy growth and productivity gains as the main drivers; environmental rules played a smaller role.

Coal was clean, cheap and incredibly efficient compared with other power sources.

Coal combustion produces more carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels used for power and emits other pollutants, while natural gas and renewable generation were generally cheaper alternatives.

After the first little carton of milk, United States dairy exports to Canada faced tariffs of 275% to 300%.

The USMCA guaranteed tens of thousands of metric tons of tariff-free U.S. dairy access, and exports had not reached the quota levels at which the high over-quota tariffs applied.

China paid the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in first-term tariffs.

U.S. importers paid the tariffs, and research found American businesses and consumers bore most of their cost.

There was virtually no inflation during Trump's first term.

Consumer prices rose about 8% over the four years, and year-over-year inflation was 1.4% when he left office.

February 2025 had the lowest level of illegal border crossings ever recorded.

The total was the lowest in decades, but federal statistics show lower monthly or monthly-average levels in parts of the 1960s and earlier periods.

February border crossings were the lowest ever recorded.

They were the lowest in decades, but monthly averages were lower in portions of the 1960s.

January Army recruiting was the best in 15 years because Trump returned to office.

Recruiting improved before the election, and August 2024 had a higher total.

Trump inherited an economic catastrophe.

The economy had grown at least 2.5% annually and unemployment was historically low.

Social Security records showed millions of implausibly old people receiving benefits.

Old database entries without death annotations did not establish that those people were receiving payments.

Twenty-one million people poured into the United States under Biden.

The figure exceeded encounters at the southwest border and conflated repeat encounters and people who were expelled or removed.

Not long ago, only 1 in 10,000 children had autism and now it is 1 in 36 because something is wrong in the environment or food supply.

The current CDC estimate was real, but the older figure came from decades-old, narrower diagnostic criteria; the causal implication was not established.

The Biden administration closed more than 100 power plants.

Coal and petroleum plants decreased, but the total number of electric power plants increased from 2020 to 2023.

Canada allowed fentanyl to come into the United States at levels never seen before.

Northern-border fentanyl seizures rose but represented less than 1% of nationwide border fentanyl seizures, making the Canada comparison misleading.

Trump's first-term tariffs created jobs like never before and showed new tariffs would bring in trillions of dollars.

Studies found mixed sector effects but larger consumer and economy-wide costs, while independent revenue estimates were far below trillions annually.

Joe Biden let egg prices get out of control.

Egg prices rose sharply, but the central cause was an avian-flu outbreak that killed or required culling more than 100 million laying hens; prices continued rising after Trump took office.

For the first time in modern history, more Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.

Two polls briefly showed that result, but 17 others and the polling average still showed more Americans saying the country was on the wrong track.

Small-business optimism posted a record 41-point one-month increase.

A 41-point increase applied to one expectations component, not the overall NFIB optimism index, which later declined and remained below some 2020 levels.

Trump got China to purchase $50 billion in United States agricultural goods and Biden failed to enforce that commitment.

The trade agreement specified increases of $12.5 billion in 2020 and $19.5 billion in 2021 rather than a continuing $50 billion annual requirement; purchases rose but missed the 2021 target.

Europe had provided its Ukraine assistance as loans that it would get back.

Most European aid was grants or in-kind support, not repayable loans.

European assistance to Ukraine was principally loans that Europe would get back.

Most European assistance was grants or in-kind support rather than repayable loans.

Foreign countries, rather than Americans, paid the tariffs imposed during Trump's first term.

The tariffs were collected from U.S. importers, with economic research finding much of the cost was borne in the United States.

China paid the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs during Trump's first term.

U.S. importers paid the tariffs and commonly passed costs to American purchasers; the revenue was not a direct payment from China.

A lot of fentanyl entered the United States through Canada.

Only about 0.2% of fentanyl seized by U.S. border authorities in fiscal 2024 was seized near the Canadian border.

The United States left tens of billions of dollars in military equipment to the Taliban.

The Defense Department estimated the equipment remaining in Afghanistan was worth about $7.1 billion, not tens of billions.

Federal employees who did not answer the accomplishments email probably did not exist or were working another job.

Replies were voluntary and multiple agencies told employees not to respond; leave, illness and lack of email access also explained nonresponses.

People 200 years old were being sent Social Security checks.

Old records lacking death dates did not establish payments to 200-year-old beneficiaries, and Social Security procedures stop payments for people recorded as age 115 or older.

European assistance to Ukraine was provided as loans that Europe would get back.

Most European assistance was grants or in-kind support; loans represented a minority of the total and some were structured for repayment from proceeds on frozen Russian assets.

Kamala Harris was the Biden administration's border czar.

Biden assigned Harris to diplomatic work addressing migration's root causes in Central America, not responsibility for border security or the full immigration system.

Europe provided its Ukraine assistance as loans that it would get back.

Only about 35% of the cited European assistance was structured as concessional loans; most was grants or in-kind support.

The United States was one of the only countries with mail-in voting.

International IDEA identified 34 countries that allowed postal voting for all or some voters.

Paper ballots cost exactly 8% as much as voting machines.

The comparison treated a single printed ballot as equivalent to a ballot-marking device and omitted scanners, accessibility equipment, staffing and other election costs.

Millions of people aged over 100 were on Social Security rolls, indicating possible fraud.

The figures came from records without recorded death dates, not a count of centenarians receiving benefits; the Social Security Administration said almost none were in current-payment status.

The United States was at its richest from 1870 to 1913 because it was a tariff country.

The period included rapid growth and high tariffs, but historians attribute that growth to industrialization, population, resources and other factors rather than tariffs alone.

Zelenskyy was a dictator without elections who refused to hold an election.

Zelenskyy was democratically elected, and Ukrainian law prohibits national elections while martial law is in force during Russia's invasion.

Zelenskyy admitted that half of the U.S. money sent to Ukraine was missing.

The claim distorted Zelenskyy's distinction between direct military support and the broader U.S. appropriation, which also funded U.S.-administered activities.

Zelenskyy admitted that half of the U.S. money sent to Ukraine was missing.

Zelenskyy distinguished direct aid received by Ukraine from broader U.S. war-related spending; he did not say half had disappeared or been stolen.

Europe's Ukraine aid was guaranteed as loans that it would get back.

Only a minority of European assistance was structured as concessional loans; most was grants or in-kind support.

A lot of the fentanyl entering the United States came through Canada.

Northern-border fentanyl seizures represented less than 1% of nationwide border fentanyl seizures; most seizures occurred at the southwest border.

The United States was richest from 1870 to 1913 because it was a tariff country before adopting the income tax.

The period included rapid growth and extensive tariffs, but historians and economists do not support attributing national wealth to tariffs alone; industrialization, population growth, resources and other policies were major factors.

Illegal immigration was already at a record low by January 29, 2025.

Southwest-border encounters had fallen sharply, but complete January data were not yet available and earlier historical periods recorded lower monthly levels.

Twenty-one million people entered the United States through the open border under Biden.

The figure exceeded recorded southwest-border encounters and conflated repeat encounters and people who were expelled or removed with distinct people who entered and stayed.

More than 11,000 murderers were released into the United States by foreign countries because of Biden's border policy.

The cited ICE docket accumulated cases over decades, included people in custody, and did not show that foreign governments released more than 11,000 murderers into the United States under Biden.

The Biden administration forced 2,000 displaced North Carolinians from temporary housing into freezing weather.

FEMA extended hotel assistance for many households, and the broad description omitted eligibility reviews and extensions.

California's limits on northern water deliveries caused Los Angeles fire hydrants to run dry.

Water experts said the state-level supply dispute was not connected to the hydrant failures, which followed extreme local demand; Southern California storage was above average.

The 2024 election produced a massive mandate unlike any seen in many years.

Trump won all seven swing states and the Electoral College, but received 49.9% of the popular vote and won it by about 1.5 percentage points, a much narrower result than the characterization suggested.

Violence against police on January 6 consisted of very minor incidents.

More than 140 police officers were assaulted and the injuries included concussions, fractures and other serious harms.

Twenty-one million people entered the United States illegally during the Biden administration.

The figure exceeded recorded southwest-border encounters and treated encounters, including repeat attempts and people expelled or removed, as distinct people who entered and remained.

California turned off northern water to protect the Delta smelt, causing Los Angeles fire hydrants to run dry.

Some northern deliveries were limited, but Southern California reservoirs were above average and water experts said state supply restrictions did not cause the local hydrant failures.

Trump had already secured nearly $3 trillion in new United States investments by his first full business day.

FactCheck.org found no contemporaneous accounting supporting $3 trillion, and some included commitments were aspirational or had been planned before Trump won the election.

Tariffs tax foreign countries rather than Americans.

Tariffs are collected from U.S. importers, which may pass the cost to consumers.

The federal government could no longer deliver basic services after Hurricane Helene.

FEMA was delivering supplies and had approved hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance.

Biden-era inflation was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices.

Energy prices and fiscal policy were factors, but economists also identified pandemic supply shocks, demand shifts, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and labor-cost pressures; the claim oversimplified causation.

Trump won Pennsylvania in a landslide in 2024.

Trump won Pennsylvania, but by less than two percentage points, not a margin ordinarily described as a landslide.

Small-business optimism rose a record 41 points to a 39-year high after the 2024 election.

One component rose by 41 percentage points, but the overall NFIB optimism index reached its highest level only since 2018, not a 39-year high.

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Spain's weak law and bad management caused the Ceuta migrant surge.

AP reported that the immediate cause remained unclear. Spain rejected the premise, while reporting identified social-media misinformation, a court ruling, smugglers and underlying economic pressures as competing explanations.

Unqualified illegal immigrants are driving commercial trucks because states issued them commercial driver's licenses even though they were not entitled to them.

Trump made this broad attribution in the Freedom Haulers remarks. FMCSA rules tightly limit non-domiciled CDL eligibility to specific documented lawful-status categories, but the reviewed public record does not supply a nationwide dataset establishing the claimed scale, the asserted licensing causes, or the link to individual crashes. The claim therefore cannot be responsibly verified as stated.

Iran knew U.S. strikes were coming after the attempted attacks on American forces.

Trump said Iran knew the United States would hit it very hard. Subsequent reporting documented U.S. and Saudi strikes, but the public record does not establish what Iranian officials knew beforehand.

Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to brief Trump on Pickaxe Mountain because he wanted the United States to stay involved.

CBS reported Trump said in a Fox News interview that Netanyahu did not need to tell him about the Iranian site and was doing so because he wanted Trump to stay involved. The claim concerns Netanyahu's motive and cannot be responsibly verified from the public record reviewed.

Iran's whole shoreline is wiped out and Iran asked the United States not to shoot for two nights.

Trump made the claim in the Air Force One gaggle while describing Iran talks. Reuters reported his statement that talks were under way, but public evidence reviewed here did not verify the condition of Iran's shoreline or the asserted private Iranian requests.

More auto factories and plants are being built than at any time in U.S. history.

Trump used this superlative more than once in the Milford speech. The White House cited multiple auto-investment announcements, but the reviewed evidence did not provide a comprehensive historical auto-factory construction measure that would verify the all-time claim.

The United States has far more munitions than anyone in the world and far more than it needs.

Trump made the broad superlative while disputing stockpile-concern reporting. Public evidence is not sufficient to verify detailed U.S. and foreign munitions inventories, and contemporaneous reporting described concerns about specific U.S. air-defense stockpiles.

The expanded pledge protects 263 million Americans and covers 80% of power delivered.

Those figures came from the White House. The reviewed independent reporting did not provide enough underlying data to verify them.

The economy was the best in history in Trump’s first term.

“Best” has no single accepted measure. The claim omits the 2020 recession and requires selecting favorable indicators, so it cannot be supported as stated.

The released material proves votes were secretly altered in the 2020 election.

The administration described vulnerabilities and foreign access, but that does not by itself establish altered vote totals or a changed result.

DHS identified 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote.

The administration did not disclose enough methodology or records to validate the total.

Trump's Iran agreement averted a worldwide depression.

The counterfactual economic outcome cannot be established from the available evidence.

The administration cut the flow of illegal drugs entering by sea by 97%.

Seizure data do not measure drugs that enter undetected, so available federal data cannot establish the claimed reduction in total flow.

Without the 2025 strikes Iran would already have a nuclear weapon and half the world would be eradicated.

The sweeping counterfactual could not be substantiated from public evidence.

More than half of the 11,888 murderers had committed multiple murders.

CNN found the administration had not provided evidence for the asserted proportion.

More than half of the 11,888 people cited had committed multiple murders.

The administration did not provide evidence establishing the asserted proportion.

Iran would soon have had missiles capable of reaching the American homeland.

Arms-control experts disputed the claim, and the reviewed public evidence did not establish a reliable near-term timetable.

Many farmers died by suicide because estate taxes threatened their farms.

The review found no documented U.S. examples supporting the asserted pattern.

The pledge guarantees that data centers will not raise community electricity prices and will substantially lower them in many places.

The pledge sets commitments, but future retail-price outcomes depend on implementation, utility regulation and grid costs that cannot yet be established.

Without the new strikes, Iran would have caused a nuclear war and destroyed many countries.

The counterfactual prediction was not supported by verifiable evidence.

Iran had attempted to rebuild its enrichment program.

The reviewed public evidence did not establish the asserted reconstruction.

Iran could soon field missiles capable of reaching the U.S. homeland.

Public assessments did not establish the claimed near-term timetable.

Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat.

Public intelligence did not establish that a weapon decision or immediate breakout was underway.

The flow of fentanyl into the country was down a record 56%.

The administration did not provide evidence supporting the specific flow estimate.

Many immigrants came from prisons and mental institutions.

No supporting evidence was provided for a coordinated foreign-government practice.

Many immigrants admitted under Biden came from foreign prisons and mental institutions.

No evidence established the broad claim.

Many immigrants came from foreign prisons and mental institutions.

No evidence established the broad claim.

Companies were pouring out of the United States during Biden’s presidency.

The cited review found no evidence supporting a broad exodus of companies.

Venezuela emptied prisons, mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States.

FactCheck.org cited immigration and Venezuelan crime experts who said there was no evidence for a government policy sending such people to the United States.

A destroyed drug-carrying submarine was loaded mostly with fentanyl and other narcotics.

The administration did not release evidence for the cargo claim; FactCheck.org noted fentanyl is primarily trafficked through Mexico, not by sea from Venezuela or Colombia.

U.S. strikes totally obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities.

The public record did not establish a definitive damage assessment proving complete obliteration of the facilities.

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism.

Some studies show associations, but the most rigorous reviews have not established causation.

Portland protesters were professional anarchists and agitators.

Portland police said they had not found evidence that protesters were professional agitators or anarchists, though some individuals had been arrested for criminal conduct.

The Congo and Venezuela emptied prisons and sent prisoners to the United States.

Trump and his administration provided no corroboration, and country and prison experts rejected the allegation.

Taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism.

Research has shown associations in some studies, but no causal relationship has been established and other research points away from causation.

Giving Tylenol to babies after birth causes autism.

Research has not shown a causal link between correctly dosed acetaminophen use in children and autism.

The Congo, Venezuela and other countries opened prisons and sent inmates into the United States.

Trump provided no corroborating evidence; country and prison experts and both Congolese governments rejected the allegation.

The death penalty is a very strong preventative for murder.

A National Research Council review found existing research was not informative enough to determine whether capital punishment deters homicide.

D.C. gave fake crime numbers to create a false illusion of safety.

There were investigations and allegations about crime-data handling, but experts said homicide data were reliable and public evidence did not establish the broad charge.

Washington police were giving phony crime statistics.

A commander was under investigation over crime-data changes, but public evidence did not establish broad falsification of D.C. crime statistics.

Bureau of Labor Statistics employment figures were politically rigged.

Trump offered no evidence of political manipulation; BLS revisions follow published methods and arise as more survey and administrative data become available.

Weak July employment figures were rigged or phony.

No evidence showed political manipulation of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates; routine revisions follow a published methodology.

The people entering during Biden's presidency came from prisons, mental institutions, street gangs and drug-dealing organizations.

Some entrants had criminal histories, but no evidence supported the sweeping claim that the migration population broadly came from institutions or organized criminal groups.

Biden was not making presidential decisions and aides using his autopen were making them instead.

Autopen use does not establish who made a decision, and the public record available for the claim did not prove that aides acted without Biden's authorization.

Iran was very close to obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran could potentially produce weapons-grade material quickly, but intelligence agencies assessed that it was not building a weapon and experts said weaponization would take months or longer.

Russia's continued membership in the G8 would have prevented the war in Ukraine.

This is a counterfactual assertion that cannot be established; Russia was suspended after its 2014 aggression in Ukraine, and the record does not show that continued G8 membership would have prevented the 2022 invasion.

Paid rioters organized the Los Angeles immigration protests.

The reviewed reporting identified no evidence that the protests as a whole were organized by paid rioters.

Bricks and weapons were deliberately placed near protest sites for rioters to use.

No evidence was provided for an organized effort to pre-position bricks or weapons for the Los Angeles demonstrations.

California's governor and Los Angeles' mayor paid troublemakers, agitators and insurrectionists.

The Guardian identified no evidence supporting the accusation that state or city officials paid protesters to attack federal officers.

Trump solved a potentially nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.

The United States participated in de-escalation efforts and Pakistan credited Trump, but India said the ceasefire was arranged through direct military channels; whether the clash would have become nuclear is unknowable.

Biden aides used the autopen to take presidential actions without Biden's knowledge.

Trump acknowledged he had no evidence for unauthorized use, and the public record then available did not establish who approved each signature.

Biden signed almost everything with an autopen and multiple unidentified people operated it.

Autopen use is longstanding and legally valid when authorized, but the public record did not establish either the sweeping usage claim or unauthorized operators.

The U.S. Steel partnership would produce no layoffs and many thousands of jobs.

The pledge depended on future corporate behavior and government-approved deal terms; contemporaneous reporting did not provide enough evidence to verify the promised employment outcome.

The nationwide Golden Dome missile-defense shield would be completed before Trump left office.

The system was still at the proposal and development stage, and defense experts questioned both its timetable and feasibility for protecting the entire country.

The U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel partnership would create at least 70,000 jobs and add $14 billion to the U.S. economy.

Trump announced the claimed benefits before the final national-security arrangement and investment timetable were public, so the future job and economic-impact totals could not yet be independently verified.

Prescription-drug prices would fall 50% to 90% almost immediately because of the executive order.

The order set targets and contemplated later rulemaking but did not specify an immediate implementation mechanism; experts said whether or when savings would reach patients was unknown.

The FBI confirmed Venezuela sent gangs to the United States.

Public reporting described conflicting anonymous intelligence accounts and did not establish the broad claim.

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.

Foreign countries emptied prisons and mental institutions to dump their occupants into the United States.

No evidence established such a coordinated policy, and the recorded global prison population increased rather than plummeted during the cited period.

Joe Biden personally used the Justice Department and FBI to attack Trump.

No evidence established that Biden directed the federal prosecutions, and the state prosecutions were brought by local officials rather than the White House.

DOGE had found hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud.

DOGE claimed substantially less in savings and publicly documented only a fraction of that amount; it did not substantiate hundreds of billions in fraud.

Foreign countries released people from mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States.

No evidence established a coordinated policy by foreign governments to send such people to the United States.

The United States already had the technology to build a nationwide Golden Dome missile shield.

FactCheck.org reported the proposed technology was still being developed and experts questioned whether a shield could protect the entire United States.

Joe Biden personally used his office to prosecute Trump.

Trump provided no evidence Biden directed the federal cases, which were brought by a special counsel, while the other prosecutions were state matters.

Diversity hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration could have contributed to the Reagan National Airport collision.

Investigators had not determined the cause, and Trump presented no evidence connecting FAA diversity policies to the collision.

Trump took more than 350 executive actions during his first week back in office.

The administration used a broad, undefined count of actions; formal executive orders, memoranda and proclamations alone were far fewer, and no complete itemized list substantiated the total.

Foreign countries emptied prisons and mental institutions and sent those people into the United States.

No public evidence established a coordinated policy by foreign governments to send prisoners or psychiatric patients to the United States.

Stargate would create an estimated 100,000 American jobs.

The partners projected large job creation, but the eventual number was a forecast that could not yet be verified.

Foreign countries emptied prisons and mental institutions into the United States.

No evidence established a coordinated policy by foreign governments to send prisoners or psychiatric patients to the United States.

Outside agitators were responsible for the January 6 violence.

FactCheck.org found Trump provided no evidence, and the inspector general report did not show outside agitators caused or directed the violence.

Stargate would create more than 100,000 American jobs almost immediately.

The consortium projected hundreds of thousands of jobs, but the job total and timing were forecasts that could not be established when Trump made the claim.

Countries were emptying prisons and mental institutions into the United States.

No evidence was identified for a coordinated policy by foreign governments.

Venezuela and Congo emptied prisons so criminals would migrate to the United States.

Country experts and both governments said there was no evidence of a coordinated prison-emptying policy; the broad allegation was not substantiated.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025 through Saturday, August 1, 2026. Totals are calculated directly from verdicts on attributable Trump claims in published daily editions. Assessed claims that cannot be responsibly verified from the available evidence are counted as Unresolved.