Donald Trump is the president of the United States; he was elected Nov. 5, 2024, and began his second presidential term Jan. 20, 2025. He defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, four years after losing his reelection bid to Joe Biden in 2020. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year.
Donald Trump
Crime in Minneapolis “is down 25, 30% because we’ve removed thousands of criminals from the area.”
"The crime rate now is the lowest it's been since 1900. That's 125 years."
“We right now have more factories and plants being built in our country than we've ever had before.”
Among Somalis in Minnesota, “92% of them don’t work.”
In artificial intelligence, “We're leading China by a lot.”
Protesters against the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota are conducting “fake protests done by agitators and professional insurrectionists. …They're professional troublemakers.”
The former U.S. childhood vaccine schedule called for babies to get “72 injections.”
"If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we're going to have a balanced budget."
Credit card companies would be “in violation of the law” if they don’t cap interest rates at 10% by Jan. 20.
Maduro was “flooding America with deadly fentanyl.”
| Promise | Status | Last Updated | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not support a federal abortion ban | Not Rated | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Cut energy costs by 50% in first year | Not Rated | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Approve liquefied natural gas terminals | In the Works | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Abolish the Education Department | In the Works | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Promote research and development for vertical-takeoff flying cars | Not Rated | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Reduce the cost of gasoline below $2 a gallon | Not Rated | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history | In the Works | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Finish the border wall | In the Works | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| Restore and expand the travel ban | Not Rated | January 19, 2025 | View Details |
| End birthright citizenship | Stalled | January 19, 2025 | View Details |