Some of Trump's lies in 2025
 

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Stated on January 7, 2025 in a press conference:

“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”

Trump said, "They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas."

He gave the impression that two months after Election Day, ballots are still being tabulated in the presidential race. That’s not happening.

States certified their results by December, and Congress accepted the Electoral College results the day before Trump made this claim.

Some state and local races remain under litigation, but that is not the same as counting ballots.

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False.

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Stated on January 20, 2025 in remarks:

The United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.

Trump said that the U.S. is the only country in the world to have unrestricted birthright citizenship.

This is incorrect. Around three dozen other countries offer automatic citizenship to children born within their borders, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

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False.

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Stated on January 22, 2025 in an interview:

The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”

Trump said the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack "deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years."

The committee publicly released an 845-page report, more than 100 transcripts of testimony, memos, depositions and documents. Much of the committee’s work remains available online.

The committee didn’t release videos of witness interviews that members said contained "law enforcement sensitive operational details" and information that could have endangered witnesses. The committee said its actions complied with House rules.

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False.

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Stated on January 30, 2025 in a press briefing:

“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it.”

As he speculated about the Jan. 29 air crash’s cause, Trump said "I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it."

The White House said he was referring to two separate policies.

The first was a push to hire more people with disabilities that started under Obama. Trump didn’t end the initiative — he expanded the effort by announcing a program aimed at hiring 20 people with disabilities to be air traffic controllers. All air traffic controllers had to pass medical, security and skills tests, regardless of any disability.

The second involved an Obama-era hiring assessment that critics said prioritized diversity over qualifications. Trump was wrong to say that Biden reinstated it — he did not. The assessment has not been in place since 2018, when Trump ended it. But even under that practice, training standards did not change.

Trump conflated policies, obfuscated about his role in them and misled about what they did.

Investigators are still piecing together what led to the crash, a process that could take months. Trump’s leap to connect these policies to what unfolded over the Potomac has no basis.

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False.

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Stated on February 6, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

CBS News and “60 Minutes” “replaced” former Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview answers “with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview.”

Trump posted on Truth Social that CBS News and 60 Minutes "replaced" Harris’ "60 Minutes" interview answers "with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."

The full, unedited interview transcript does not show that CBS News’ "60 Minutes" replaced all of Harris’ answers to questions about U.S.-Israel relations with a response from a different part of the interview. CBS did not change Harris’ meaning.

News outlets commonly edit interviews for length and clarity. CBS News used a longer version of Harris’ response in a video clip previewing the "60 Minutes" interview on the CBS News show "Face the Nation." It used a shorter excerpt of Harris’ answer in the aired "60 Minutes" interview. Both parts of Harris’ answer were taken from the same segment of the interview, the unedited transcript shows.

A media ethics expert said the "60 Minutes" interview adhered to typical journalistic standards.

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Stated on February 10, 2025 in a Fox News interview:

The United States is “last in education out of 40 states … but we're number one in cost per pupil."

Trump said the U.S. is "last in education out of 40 states" and "No. 1 in cost per pupil."

Both claims are wrong. The U.S. does not lead any international rankings for education, but it is not at the bottom of the list, either. Cost per pupil is higher than most developed countries, but not the highest.

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Stated on March 4, 2025 in an address to a joint session of Congress:

The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”

Trump said his administration identified $1.9 billion going to a "decarbonization of homes" group that Abrams "headed up."

This is inaccurate. From March 2023 through the end of 2024, Abrams was senior counsel for Rewiring America, one of five groups in the Power Forward Communities coalition.

Power Forward Communities was awarded a $2 billion EPA grant, but Abrams did not "head up" that group and there’s no evidence she directly received any of the grant money. The coalition’s CEO said Abrams was not paid by Power Forward Communities and did not receive any of the federal funds.

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Stated on March 17, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”

Trump said Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack "are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT," because "they were done by Autopen."

It’s unclear whether Biden signed the pardons with an autopen. But even if he did, a half dozen legal experts said the Constitution doesn’t require that pardons be signed by hand by the president.

Memos by the Office of the Solicitor General in 1929 and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2005 both say a president’s hand signature is not needed, and presidents, including Lincoln, routinely had subordinates sign pardons on their behalf.

There is no constitutional mechanism for overturning pardons, and an 1869 judicial ruling found that once delivered, a pardon is final. There is no legal precedent saying pardons are void if they are signed by a machine instead of the president.

The burden of proof is on the speaker, and Trump provided no evidence of a legal path to declaring Biden’s pardons void.

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False.

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Stated on April 8, 2025 in a speech:

The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”

Trump said, "We’re taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs."

Trump provided no evidence for his statement. It’s possible he applied past trade data to project the impact of his tariffs that have since been rescinded. But such a formula assumes that trade would remain constant in spite of higher tariff rates, and economists said that defies logic.

It will take time to know the tariffs’ impact, but he has not proven that they have already resulted in almost $2 billion a day. The responsibility is on Trump to explain how he arrived at the $2 billion a day figure and he has not done that.

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False.

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Stated on April 9, 2025 in remarks at a White House event:

In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”

Trump said in 2024, "China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States."

One way to look at his statement is to consider the value of Chinese exports to the U.S. In 2024. China exported $439 billion in goods to the U.S., less than half of Trump’s figure.

Another way is to consider the size of the United States’ trade deficit in goods with China. In 2024, that was $295 billion, less than one-third of what Trump said.

Adding in the U.S. trade in services to the trade in goods leaves a $263 billion deficit with China.

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False.

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Stated on April 22, 2025 in remarks at the White House:

“We had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon.”

Trump said, "We had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon."

The lowest statewide price during the week Trump made this remark was $2.66.

April 23 data from GasBuddy.com shows that no gas station out of roughly 150,000 nationally sold gasoline for $1.98 per gallon.

While Trump said his policies are responsible for lowering gasoline prices nationally, there is no evidence of a significant uptick in drilling or production. Analysts credit a gasoline price drop during the past two weeks to a production increase by other countries, and concerns about Trump’s policies hurting the U.S. global and economic outlook.

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False.

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Stated on April 29, 2025 in an interview:

“If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process.

Trump said, "If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard" for due process.

All people in the U.S. regardless of their immigration status have due process rights, based on the U.S. Constitution and decades of court decisions. That applies whether they entered the U.S. legally or illegally.

For noncitizens, people’s due process protections vary based on their legal status or how long they’ve been in the U.S. Legal experts say despite due process variations, there are no exceptions to due process requirements for immigrants.

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Stated on May 8, 2025 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”

Trump said, "We have now close to $10 trillion, think of that, $10 trillion" in investments. "We’re talking about essentially two months."

The White House has pointed to investment announcements totaling $5.1 trillion, including $2.1 trillion from companies and the rest from countries.

That’s at least $4.9 trillion short of Trump’s figure, and these announcements represent future spending, some of which is planned over four years, five years or a decade.

Experts said many of the dollar amounts are aspirational and that the investments announced might never be fully reached. They also said some of this investment would have occurred regardless of who was president.

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Stated on May 8, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

The Digital Equity Act is a handout "based on race,” and “illegal.”

Trump said the Digital Equity Act is a handout "based on race" and "illegal."

Organizations familiar with the law said they are unaware of any court ruling saying it’s illegal.

The law’s text outlines several groups that lawmakers sought to benefit. Racial minorities were one of those groups. The other groups may include racial minorities but not to the exclusion of other races: low-income households; people 60 and older; people incarcerated in non-federal facilities; veterans; people with disabilities; people with language barriers; and people in rural areas.

Trump’s statement distorts the legality and intent of the legislation.

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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.”

Trump said declining cargo traffic at ports "means we lose less money. … When you say it's slowed down, that's a good thing."

Economists say a cargo slowdown at U.S. ports would result in job losses for people employed at ports, in transportation and at warehouses. Those employees’ economic losses will radiate outward into the economy, harming consumer spending and prompting layoffs in other sectors. Consumer goods shortages could result as well.

Trump’s assertion that spending less on imports means the U.S. loses less money also draws skepticism from economists. They say trade enables affordable consumer products, and that consumers will pay higher prices — and potentially buy less — if foreign imports are slashed, which would have spiraling effects through the economy.

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Stated on May 20, 2025 in remarks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol:

In the House bill, “we’re not changing Medicaid,” only cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”

Trump said that a House bill is "not changing Medicaid," only cutting "waste, fraud and abuse."

The legislation includes provisions that can improve the detection of beneficiaries who aren’t eligible for coverage.

But other provisions change Medicaid to align with Trump’s ideology and Republican priorities. The bill incentivizes states to stop using their own funds to cover people in the U.S. illegally; it requires people to work or do another approved activity to secure benefits; and it bans Medicaid payments to nonprofits such as Planned Parenthood, which provide abortions among other services.

Other changes aim to cut expenses, including the imposition of copays and a shorter window for retroactive coverage. Those provisions don’t specify how they’d cut waste, fraud or abuse.

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False.

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Stated on May 25, 2025 in a press gaggle:

Harvard University “refuse(s) to tell us” who its international students are.

Trump said Harvard University "refuse(s) to tell us" who its international students are.

To enroll international students, Harvard, and all other certified institutions must provide the U.S. government with detailed biographical information about every international student at its institution. That includes students’ names, addresses, contact information and details about their coursework.

Additionally, all international students must have student visas to enter the U.S. To get these, students who have enrolled in a government-certified university must apply via the State Department. That process also requires students to provide biographical and security information to the federal government.

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Stated on June 5, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

If the “Big, Beautiful” tax and spending bill doesn’t pass, “there will be a 68% tax increase.”

Trump said if the "Big Beautiful" tax and spending bill doesn’t pass, "there will be a 68% tax increase."

If the 2017 tax law is not extended, independent analyses show that taxes will increase, but by far less than what Trump said.

The Tax Policy Center projects that the increase would be about 7.5% overall. The Tax Foundation broadly agreed with that assessment.

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Stated on June 25, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.

Trump said Mamdani is a communist.

Mamdani’s mayoral platform proposes making New York City more affordable, including via free buses and day care, rent control and city-owned grocery stores. That is not akin to communism, a system in which the government controls the means of production and takes over private businesses. Mamdani has not called for the elimination of private ownership in his mayoral campaign.

He also hasn’t called for eliminating democracy and political parties, another tenet of communism.

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Stated on July 26, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Democrats paid Beyoncé $11 million for an endorsement.

Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s mother and former manager, in November rebutted the claims her daughter was paid for the event, writing on Instagram that, "Beyonce did not receive a penny for speaking" and "actually paid for her own flights for her and her team, and total Glam."

Trump also wasn’t right about it being illegal for a political candidate to pay for an endorsement.

Myles Martin, deputy press officer for the Federal Election Commission, pointed PolitiFact to a campaign disbursement page on how campaigns can spend their funds, which includes using funds "to influence the federal election of the candidate." The page does not list any laws that say a candidate can’t pay for endorsements; candidates are legally required to report payments.

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False.

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Stated on August 11, 2025 in a speech:

Washington, D.C., has 41 homicides per 100,000 people, “No. 1 that we can find anywhere in the world.”

Speaking about Washington, D.C., homicide rates, Trump said it’s "41 per 100,000. No.1 that we can find anywhere in the world."

Trump stretched an outdated homicide rate into an inaccurate blanket statement.

Trump appeared to be referring to a chart that showed the district’s 2023 homicide rate, which was 39.4 per 100,000 people. In 2024, the homicide rate dropped to 27.3 per 100,000 people. The city’s Metropolitan Police Department has reported that homicide rates continue to decrease in 2025.

A list of 2023 homicide rates in cities around the world has Washington, D.C., listed below 49 other cities, three of them capital cities.

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False.

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Stated on August 18, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”

Trump said, "We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting."

Trump didn’t explain his evidence and hours later softened his language when he said he "may be wrong."

In 2024, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance found that 34 countries or territories allow postal voting, or mail-in voting. For example, Australia has had mail-in voting for a century, and all Canadians are eligible to vote by mail.

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Stated on August 18, 2025 in remarks at the White House:

With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."

Trump said with voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."

Scientific studies and experience with past elections show that both parts of this assertion are incorrect.

Trump is wrong that machine-conducted voting inevitably takes two weeks. And getting rid of machines that tabulate votes and relying solely on humans to count paper ballots would, in most cases, take longer, require more personnel and add expense to the process, particularly in large jurisdictions with large numbers of ballots cast and a variety of races on each ballot.

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False.

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Stated on August 25, 2025 in remarks to the media:

In Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”

Trump said Aug. 25, "We always have a murder a week" in Washington, D.C.

That ignores that a two-week stretch earlier in 2025 had no reported homicides.

Criminologists caution that one week of data does not say much about the crime trends. Crime experts generally compare crimes and crime rates over longer periods, such as years.


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Stated on September 19, 2025 in an exchange with reporters in the White House:

The U.S. currently has “no inflation.”

Trump said the U.S. currently has "no inflation."

By two measures — the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for "price stability" — the statement is inaccurate.

The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fed’s 2% "price stability" target. of 2%. And the inflation rate has been accelerating rather than easing for the past four months.

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Stated on September 21, 2025 in a press gaggle on Air Force One:

Small children are given "80 different vaccines."

On multiple occasions Trump said "little" kids and "little" babies are given "80 different vaccines."

According to the current CDC recommended vaccine schedule, a 10-year-old child could receive up to 12 different vaccine formulations, protecting from 16 different diseases. Those vaccines could be administered in up to 52 separate doses, but almost certainly less than 52 injections because many vaccines are delivered in one shot.

None of those numbers equals 80 different vaccines.

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Stated on October 5, 2025 in a statement to the media:

“Portland is burning to the ground.”

Trump said, "Portland is burning to the ground."

Since protests outside of the ICE facility began in June, city and federal officials have arrested about 60 defendants, including at least a few for arson. That does not show an entire city "burning to the ground." These criminal actions are confined to a block or two out of the city’s 145 square miles.

Normal life has continued throughout much of the city in recent months as residents have participated in events such as a marathon, the farmer’s market, a film festival and a naked bike ride.

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False.

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Stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.

Trump said Zelenskyy "started" the war in Ukraine with Russia.

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian forces launched an invasion on Ukraine, a country that the night before was at peace. Putin called it a "special military operation" and he premised the attack on false claims about Ukraine. As people were sleeping, Russian troops and tanks rolled into Ukraine and missiles poured down in what U.S. military analysts called the largest military operation in Europe since World War II.

The attack followed weeks of Russian maneuvers that included staging a large-scale military exercise along Russia’s border with Ukraine that the U.S. estimated to include 190,000 Russian troops.

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Pants on Fire!

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Stated on November 12, 2025 in an X post:

“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”

Trump said his tariffs "are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%."

The federal deficit has not fallen by 25% during Trump’s second term. The fiscal year 2025 deficit was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal 2024 deficit. When considering only the portions of the fiscal 2025 year when Trump was president, the deficit was higher on his watch than during the comparable months in 2024 under Biden.

Trump has proposed using tariff revenue to fund dividends for the American public, which would eliminate any deficit-reducing impact the tariffs could have.

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Stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.

Trump said Zelenskyy "started" the war in Ukraine with Russia.

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian forces launched an invasion on Ukraine, a country that the night before was at peace. Putin called it a "special military operation" and he premised the attack on false claims about Ukraine. As people were sleeping, Russian troops and tanks rolled into Ukraine and missiles poured down in what U.S. military analysts called the largest military operation in Europe since World War II.

The attack followed weeks of Russian maneuvers that included staging a large-scale military exercise along Russia’s border with Ukraine that the U.S. estimated to include 190,000 Russian troops.

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Pants on Fire!

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Stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:

"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

Trump said, "The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

We received no information from FEMA that 2,000 people were removed in January. FEMA said on the weekend of Jan. 18, about 740 families were notified that they had three weeks to move out of the agency’s transitional sheltering assistance program because they no longer met eligibility criteria.

Trump omitted the context about why they were removed — because they no longer met eligibility requirements — and that the removals are standard procedure that also happened during other disasters during his first administration.

FEMA reviews temporary housing participants’ eligibility every two weeks, and households whose homes are deemed habitable or who can’t be reached lose eligibility.

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Mostly False.

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Stated on March 4, 2025 in a speech to Congress:

"All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”

Trump said, "All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever" because of Trump policies, and "it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite."

Trump is wrong that the enlistment trend months ago was "exactly the opposite" of a recent upswing. Military recruitment rose during the most recent fiscal year, while Biden was president, and continued during his final months in office.

Record recruitment numbers for January and February are plausible, based on trends from several months. Neither the military nor Trump administration officials provided data.

Survey responses show the largest detractors for joining the military are fear of injury or death, the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder and relocating away from family — not the DEI and LGBTQ+ friendly policies that Trump and Republicans often cite.

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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.”

Trump said, "We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast."

The White House pointed to announcements of major U.S. investments by Hyundai, Honda and Stellantis since Trump took office.

With one exception, these were reallocations of investments at existing facilities, rather than new plants. Building a plant, or even increasing production at an existing plant, can take years, and it remains to be seen whether these plans will come to fruition.

Trump came into office after several years of automotive manufacturing construction investments under Biden. Two months into Trump’s administration, it’s too early to say whether his policies have generated additional industry growth. We found no data to support his statement that the current growth plans are unprecedented.

The statement contains an element of truth but ignores facts that would give a different impression.

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Mostly False.

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Stated on May 11, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”

Trump said because of his new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced "almost immediately."

Experts said that if the goals of the executive order are achieved, price reductions would not happen "almost immediately."

The order sets out a 30-day period to develop pricing targets for drugmakers, followed by an unspecified amount of time to see if companies achieve the targets. If they don’t, a formal rulemaking process would begin, requiring months or even years. And if Trump intends to lower prices for all consumers, not just those who have federal coverage like Medicare, Congress would likely have to pass a law to do it.

Trump gives the impression that Americans will shortly see steep decreases in what they pay for prescription drugs. But even if the executive order acts as intended — which would require a lot to go right — it could take months or years.

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Mostly False.

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Stated on June 24, 2025 in a White House fact sheet:


If the “Big Beautiful Bill” passes, "hardworking Americans and families will see an average increase in take-home pay of OVER $10,000 per year."

The White House said if the "Big Beautiful Bill" passes, "hardworking Americans and families will see an average increase in take-home pay of OVER $10,000 per year."

The Council of Economic Advisers, an arm of the White House, projected that during the first four years after the bill’s passage, take-home pay for a family of four would rise by a minimum of $7,600 to a maximum of $10,900 annually, or by slightly smaller amounts if a proposed tax cut for overtime is removed from the calculation. In the 10th year after the bill’s passage, it projected incomes would rise by $5,503 to $9,070.

But the White House plucked the highest end of the Council of Economic Advisers’ projection, which was not a single figure but a range.

Also, the Council of Economic Advisers’ analysis is based on much higher projections about how much the bill would boost gross domestic product than independent analyses found.

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Mostly False.

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