Trade

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true
0% 23 Checks
mostly-true
0% 44 Checks
Half True
0% 56 Checks
mostly-false
0% 45 Checks
false
0% 56 Checks
Pants on Fire
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stated on January 16, 2026 in an email:
“Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend is live but you must act.”
False
January 23, 2026
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 9, 2025 in public events:
The U.S. has received promises of investments totaling $18 trillion to $22 trillion since January.
False
December 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 12, 2025 in an X post:
“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”
False
November 14, 2025
stated on October 23, 2025 in a statement on X:
An ad from the government of Ontario, Canada, “misrepresents” President Ronald Reagan’s April 25, 1987, address about tariffs.
Mostly False
October 24, 2025
Ritchie Torres
Ritchie Torres
stated on July 20, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”
Mostly True
July 25, 2025
stated on July 20, 2025 in a social media post:
“America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under President Trump's leadership, but that surplus turned into a trade deficit of $40.6 million under President Biden's watch.”
Mostly True
July 24, 2025
stated on July 20, 2025 in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation":
Tariffs are “going to pay off our deficit.”
False
July 22, 2025
stated on May 18, 2025 in remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump."
Mostly False
May 20, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2025 in an event in the White House:
Declining cargo traffic at U.S. ports “means we lose less money. … When you say it's slowed down, that's a good thing.”
False
May 16, 2025
stated on May 5, 2025 in a CNN NewsNight episode:
“China makes 80% of all toys” and “90% of all Christmas goods” sold in the U.S.
True
May 9, 2025
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 27, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“It's estimated” that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will mean “American families would have to pay about $4,000 more a year.”
Mostly True
May 5, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2025 in remarks at a White House event:
In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2025 in a speech:
The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 10, 2025
Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins
stated on April 6, 2025 in an interview:
“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9.
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • April 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2025 in an interview with Newsmax:
“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on March 11, 2025 in a White House press briefing:
“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2024 in a post on Facebook:
“Saudi Arabia will stop using the US dollar for oil sales and will not renew the 50-year petro-dollar agreement with the U.S.”
False
June 20, 2024
SFA Fund
SFA Fund
stated on December 28, 2023 in a campaign ad:
Gov. Ron DeSantis “called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 4, 2024
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