WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises. Speaking from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda because of the subfreezing temperatures, Trump said, “The golden age of America begins right now.” He vowed to […]
In sometimes fiery exchanges, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi fielded questions during a Senate confirmation hearing for her attorney general nomination about whether she would prosecute President-elect Donald Trump’s declared political enemies. Bondi also refused to deny falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. In the Jan. 15 hearing, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., […]
As wildfires caused at least two dozen deaths and billions of dollars in damages, some social media users accused Gov. Gavin Newsom of slashing money to prevent fires. Many posts, including some by Fox News, stated Newsom cut about $100 million in fire prevention from the state’s budget months before the Los Angeles fires. Some […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 10 felony sentencing raised questions on social media about his rights: Can he vote, travel internationally and own a gun? Yes, likely, and no. A Manhattan jury on May 30 found Trump guilty of 34 counts of felony falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up a hush money payment […]
When Jimmy Carter entered the national political scene in the 1970s, the peanut-farmer-turned-Georgia-governor touted his status as a relative political unknown. But nearly 50 years after winning the U.S. presidency, serving a single, troubled term and engaging in more than four decades of postpresidential work to promote global democracy, eradicate disease and build homes for […]
See Figure 5 on PolitiFact.com SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Underlying 2024’s most outrageous political lie was a truth — some might even argue a confession — voiced by an accomplice: To get media attention, then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance acknowledged, sometimes “I have to create stories.” And so, with a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump […]
As Elon Musk launches the Department of Government Efficiency to recommend spending cuts, he has highlighted examples of what he considers waste. Musk, an entrepreneur, amplified posts on his X platform that said the government funded research on “transgender” monkeys, cats on treadmills and “alcoholic rats” sprayed with bobcat urine. “Some of this stuff is […]
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the simple message that he will fix what he sees as the country’s problems: the border, inflation, housing prices, health care. After Trump won the 2024 election, we asked PolitiFact readers to send us their questions about his campaign promises. Most were about taxes, immigration, abortion, the Affordable Care Act, […]
Leading up to Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump hammered home this message: The cheat was on in Pennsylvania. And by Election Day, Philadelphia was ground zero. Police were coming to stop it, he said. “A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,” Trump said about three hours before the polls closed in a one-sentence […]
After two impeachments during his first term, a 2020 election loss, two assassination attempts and four criminal cases, Donald Trump has won back the presidency in 2024. The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday after he won Wisconsin and secured 277 electoral votes. Polls had shown close margins between Trump […]
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for only 90 seconds, but her cameo sparked hours of online debate over whether NBC had to offer former President Donald Trump “equal time.” Unlike many aspects of the 2024 presidential campaign, all sides worked together to address the issue quickly — and to the parties’ […]
On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, “We already have won.” He hadn’t, and we rated that Pants on Fire. When Trump began to speak in the early morning of Nov. 4, at 2:21 a.m. ET, states were still following normal procedures to count ballots. It was not […]