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Donald Trump

Donald Trump

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.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Donald Trump

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Donald Trump
stated on a Truth Social post:

Donald Trump overstates Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports

Half-True

By Caleb McCullough • July 1, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2026 in a speech in Macungie, Pennsylvania:

Donald Trump exaggerates 401(k) gains during his second term

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on on May 7, 2026 in remarks to reporters:

Trump is wrong: Gas prices have reached near record highs, not ‘come down very substantially’

False

May 11, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-05-04 a White House event:

“Consumer confidence is way up."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-04-23 remarks at the White House:

“We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.”

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-04-15 an interview with Fox Business News:

“Thom Tillis is no longer a senator.”

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2026

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.”

Pants on Fire!

By Maria Briceño • April 13, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-03-29 remarks aboard Air Force One:

“We've had regime change.”

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 1, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-03-27 a speech to a Saudi investment conference:

“More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.”

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2026

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

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

Pants on Fire!

By Amy Sherman, Zoe Weyand • March 25, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-03-09 a press conference:

Iran “also has some Tomahawks.”

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-03-03 remarks at the White House:

The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement “gave (Iran) the right to have top-of-the-line nuclear weapons.”

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-02-28 a video:

On the US seeking regime change

Full Flop

By Amy Sherman • March 3, 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.”

Pants on Fire!

By Maria Briceño • February 27, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-01-29 a White House event:

After U.S. vessel strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, “drugs entering our country by sea are down 97%.”

False

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 23, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-02-08 an interview on NBC:

Crime in Minneapolis “is down 25, 30% because we’ve removed thousands of criminals from the area.”

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-02-03 remarks in the Oval Office:

"The crime rate now is the lowest it's been since 1900. That's 125 years."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-01-27 remarks at a restaurant in Iowa:

“We right now have more factories and plants being built in our country than we've ever had before.”

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2026

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

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

Pants on Fire!

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on 2026-01-21 remarks:

In artificial intelligence, “We're leading China by a lot.”

Half-True

By Loreben Tuquero • January 29, 2026

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Social Media
stated on 2025-07-06 a TikTok video:

The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore, Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2025

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stated on 2025-03-31 a Facebook post:

Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025

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stated on 2025-03-29 a Facebook post:

Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025

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stated on 2025-04-01 a Facebook post:

Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025

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stated on 2025-02-12 a Facebook post:

Photo shows National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and President Donald Trump at her swearing-in.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-02-09 a Threads post:

Video shows President Donald Trump was “booed at the Super Bowl.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-02-09 an Instagram post:

Photo shows someone raising two middle fingers at President Donald Trump at the 2025 Super Bowl.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-01-31 an Instagram post:

An image of a website error code shows the Trump administration “trolling” former Vice President Kamala Harris.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 7, 2025

Threads posts
stated on 2025-01-29 a Threads post:

A Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was “killed when she used her 2A rights with a shotgun while being served for eviction.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-01-25 a Facebook post:

Video shows “Donald Trump just announced that America will no longer give visas to Nigerians.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2025

Threads posts
stated on 2025-01-24 a Threads post:

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin “have filed articles of impeachment against President Trump for pardoning the J6 prisoners.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on 2025-01-25 a Facebook post:

“President Trump just announced full nationwide concealed carry reciprocity.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-01-27 a Facebook post:

Image shows President Donald Trump’s response “to Selena Gomez’ meltdown.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2025

Threads posts
stated on 2025-01-23 a Threads post:

“The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the country, just released a statement rescinding their endorsement of President Trump.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on 2025-01-21 a Facebook post:

“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025

Threads posts
stated on 2025-01-21 a Threads post:

President Donald Trump declared “a state of emergency in Florida because of snow.”

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025

Viral image
stated on 2025-01-20 a Facebook post:

Image shows President Donald Trump responding to a picture rapper Ye drew of them.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 23, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on 2025-01-23 a Facebook post:

President Donald Trump "just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid."

False

By Caleb McCullough • January 23, 2025

Threads posts
stated on 2024-12-02 a video:

Video shows Fox News host Jeanine Pirro criticizing President-elect Donald Trump.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 10, 2024

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stated on 2024-11-27 a Threads post:

Donald Trump ordered the “Dallas Police Department and Dallas Attorney General’s Office to begin the preparation for the arrest” of a suspect in John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

False

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 3, 2024

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