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Donald Trump
stated on 2026-04-12 a Truth Social post:

Pope Leo XIV “thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

By Maria Briceño • April 13, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-03-23 remarks at a Memphis event:

"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.”

By Amy Sherman, Zoe Weyand • March 25, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-02-22 a TikTok post:

U.S. men’s hockey Olympian Brady Tkachuk said about the Canadian hockey team, “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f----s a lesson.”

By Maria Briceño • February 27, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-02-02 an interview with Dan Bongino:

Among Somalis in Minnesota, “92% of them don’t work.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-12-01 una publicación en Truth Social:

Video muestra noticia de “última hora” en el que el presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro se “rindió públicamente” ante el presidente Donald Trump.

By Maria Briceño • December 4, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-12-01 a Truth Social post:

Video shows “breaking” news that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro "publicly surrendered" to President Donald Trump.

By Maria Briceño • December 3, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-11-09 a Truth Social post:

“DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for ‘royalties linked to Obamacare.’”

By Loreben Tuquero • November 10, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-11-04 a Truth Social post:

Voting in California is “rigged.”

By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • November 5, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-10-15 una conferencia de prensa:

Con respecto a los ataques contra las embarcaciones en las costas de Venezuela, “por cada barco que destruimos, salvamos 25,000 vidas estadounidenses”.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 23, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-10-17 a news conference:

“We’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war.”

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 17, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-10-15 news conference:

Regarding boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, “Every boat that we knock out we save 25,000 American lives.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 16, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-09-30 a speech to military brass:

“You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-09-27 a Truth Social post:

On Jan. 6, 2021, 274 FBI agents were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”

By Samantha Putterman • September 30, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-09-22 a press conference:

“There's no downside” to avoiding Tylenol or acetaminophen use while pregnant.

By Madison Czopek • September 23, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-08-19 a Truth Social post:

The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”

By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-08-05 an interview on CNBC:

Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election.

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-07-22 a press conference:

In 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-07-15 comments to reporters:

The Jeffrey Epstein files “were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by Biden.”

By Grace Abels • July 18, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-07-08 a Cabinet meeting:

China doesn’t “have a lot of wind farms. … Very, very few.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on 2025-04-29 an interview with ABC News:

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not 'interpreted.’”

By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2025

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