History Scorecard True 0% 102 Checks Mostly True 0% 110 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 96 Checks False 0% 233 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 100 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for History JD Vance stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." August 26, 2025 Donald Trump stated on August 19, 2025 in a Truth Social post: The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.” August 20, 2025 Lisa Murkowski stated on January 20, 2025 in an X post: "Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years." By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025 Donald Trump stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024 Kristi Noem stated on March 30, 2024 in an X post: “Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.” By Samantha Putterman • April 1, 2024 Nicole Shanahan stated on March 26, 2024 in her vice presidential announcement speech: If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.” By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2024 Instagram posts stated on February 12, 2024 in an Instagram post: "Google proves that no one ever went to the moon.” By Samantha Putterman • February 16, 2024 Instagram posts stated on January 26, 2024 in an Instagram post: "Last time Democrats removed a Republican from the ballot” was Abraham Lincoln in 1860. February 6, 2024 Nikki Haley stated on January 31, 2024 in a radio interview: If Texas says, “‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ … that’s their decision to make.” By Sara Swann • February 5, 2024 Kevin McCarthy stated on November 26, 2023 in a speech at the Oxford Union: “In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom we went in for.” By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2023 Load More Latest Articles How much has Donald Trump reshaped the government’s portrayal of Black history? • February 19, 2026 Donald Trump’s plaques for past presidents include falsehoods • December 18, 2025 English is Liberia’s official language from a history of US slavery and colonization • July 10, 2025 Military bases’ new names sound as if they’re named after Confederates, but that’s not the case • June 11, 2025 Fact-checking claims about former President Jimmy Carter’s record By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 30, 2024 Germany, Scotland, Sweden: What has Donald Trump said about where his parents were from? • August 7, 2024 How unprecedented is it for President Joe Biden to drop out this late? Very By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2024 Was Joe Biden’s uncle eaten by cannibals after World War II crash? Experts say it’s highly unlikely By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2024 A primer on Civil War history and what Donald Trump and Nikki Haley got wrong By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2024 Did Democrats want expansion of slavery, while Republicans opposed it? By Laura Schulte • January 9, 2024
