History Scorecard true 0% 102 Checks mostly true 0% 110 Checks half true 0% 109 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 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." By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025 Donald Trump stated on August 19, 2025 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 Lisa Murkowski stated on January 20, 2025 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Markwayne Mullin stated on November 15, 2023 an interview with CNN “Abraham Lincoln challenged a guy to a sword fight.” By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2023 Isabel Brown stated on August 23, 2023 a post on TikTok Americans “currently are making less than at the height of the Great Depression.” By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2023 Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.” By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023 Facebook posts stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence. By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023 North Carolina Republican Party stated on February 24, 2023 an email “The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books.” By Paul Specht • March 14, 2023 Sawyer Hackett stated on January 16, 2023 a tweet Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.” By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2023 Dave Grohl stated on February 12, 2023 a Super Bowl ad Canada is to thank for American football. By Samantha Putterman • February 13, 2023 Facebook posts stated on January 18, 2023 a post Black Americans are not descended from people who were taken from Africa to be enslaved. By Gabrielle Settles • January 31, 2023 Louise Lucas stated on January 18, 2023 a tweet. Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.” By Warren Fiske • January 31, 2023 Instagram posts stated on January 22, 2023 an Instagram post The sinking of the Titanic was orchestrated by the Rothschilds and J.P. Morgan to kill prominent businessmen who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve. By Samantha Putterman • January 26, 2023 Load More Latest Articles How much has Donald Trump reshaped the government’s portrayal of Black history? By Louis Jacobson • February 19, 2026 Donald Trump’s plaques for past presidents include falsehoods By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2025 English is Liberia’s official language from a history of US slavery and colonization By Grace Abels • July 10, 2025 Military bases’ new names sound as if they’re named after Confederates, but that’s not the case By Louis Jacobson • 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? By Madison Czopek • 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 Some GOP hopefuls want to honor Confederate Braxton Bragg with US base. Here’s what to know. By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2023 State legislatures rarely expel lawmakers. We found 19 examples in nearly 23 years. By Madison Czopek • April 13, 2023 Fact-checking Ron DeSantis’ book: What ‘The Courage to Be Free’ glosses over about his record By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • March 2, 2023 With Georgia’s race still undecided, a look at whether Democrats’ midterm Senate wins are historic December 1, 2022 Por qué la afirmación de Ron DeSantis sobre ‘tierra robada’ es incorrecta By Yacob Reyes • November 7, 2022 A bowling alley, a Chinese restaurant, and George H.W. Bush: What was Donald Trump talking about? By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2022 Have people been prosecuted for mishandling White House records? By Yacob Reyes • August 10, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What is Juneteenth and when did it become a federal holiday? By Ellie Borst, Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2022 Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a look back at yellow journalism and the Spanish-American War By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2022 Is the Buffalo Bills’ Highmark stadium built on an early Erie Indian village? By Cassidey Kavathas • April 21, 2022 Latest promises about History Donald Trump Sign an order to construct the National Garden of American Heroes Trump’s spending package has $40 million for Garden of Heroes | July 14, 2025 Barack Obama Recognize the Armenian genocide In two terms, no mention of Armenian ‘genocide’ | May 11, 2016 Latest promises about History
