Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on '60 Minutes'

So you’re okay with Trump just gaslighting people?

Of course you are. It’s good for your political tribe.

I didn’t say I was good with it. What he should have said was the inflation remains very manageable and that it is lower YTD that it was last year.

You never say a word when you are being gaslighted by Democrats, which happens on a daily basis.
 
I didn’t say I was good with it. What he should have said was the inflation remains very manageable and that it is lower YTD that it was last year.

You never say a word when you are being gaslighted by Democrats, which happens on a daily basis.
Of course he can’t say that, that would be impossible for him. Moreover, it’s not entirely clear that Trump knows it’s a lie.

Trump’s problem with the truth is orders of magnitude beyond what we’ve ever seen before, but he’s good at lying so you guys stick with it because people believe him.

You do realize that inflation is usually reported as year over year, right? That means “averaging” inflation numbers over the last year is nonsense.

As for 3% inflation being “manageable”, you guys sure as hell didn’t say that about Biden in 2024. It was a disaster. Of course, that’s consistent with your gaslighting.
 
‘Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.

Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him....
You should adjust your title, I didn't bother with the transcript but it can't be more than 17..

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Of course he can’t say that, that would be impossible for him. Moreover, it’s not entirely clear that Trump knows it’s a lie.

Trump’s problem with the truth is orders of magnitude beyond what we’ve ever seen before, but he’s good at lying so you guys stick with it because people believe him.

You do realize that inflation is usually reported as year over year, right? That means “averaging” inflation numbers over the last year is nonsense.

As for 3% inflation being “manageable”, you guys sure as hell didn’t say that about Biden in 2024. It was a disaster. Of course, that’s consistent with your gaslighting.

And you continue to avoid confronting the lies you are told on a daily basis by the Democrats and the lies Biden told you. Mums the word, right?

As for YOY inflation. Where were you the first 7 months of this year? LOL.
 
And you continue to avoid confronting the lies you are told on a daily basis by the Democrats and the lies Biden told you. Mums the word, right?
“On a daily basis”, yet your one example is from like 4 years ago.

Don’t pretend as though you’re rational and too smart to fall for the lies. Aren’t you with Trump’s claims that the deep state was faking employment data?
 
“On a daily basis”, yet your one example is from like 4 years ago.

Don’t pretend as though you’re rational and too smart to fall for the lies. Aren’t you with Trump’s claims that the deep state was faking employment data?

Didn’t Biden say that his administration created “17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term”? You do know that was severely stretching the truth, right? Didn’t Biden tell you that Build Back Better added zero to the national debt? That was a lie. Didn’t Biden tell you that he brought down the price of insulin shots from $400 to $15? Another lie.

Now, one of the more recent falsehoods that you have evidently bought into is the Democrats blaming Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown when clearly it is them who is responsible. Republicans can’t keep the government open without Democrats voting for the CR, which contains all the spending previously agreed to. They know low-info people will buy anything they say.

No comment on YOY inflation for the first 7 months of the year?
 
Didn’t Biden say that his administration created “17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term”? You do know that was severely stretching the truth, right? Didn’t Biden tell you that Build Back Better added zero to the national debt? That was a lie. Didn’t Biden tell you that he brought down the price of a an insulin shots from $400 to $15? Another lie.

Now, one of the more recent falsehoods that you have evidently bought into is the Democrats blaming Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown when clearly it is them who is responsible. Republicans can’t keep the government open without Democrats voting for the CR, which contains all the spending previously agreed to. They know low-info people will buy anything they say.

No comment on YOY inflation for the first 7 months of the year?
Current year over year inflation is 3%. Your bizarre notion of “averaging” the year over year numbers is nonsensical. By including February 2025 in an “average” for Trump, you’re including mostly data from 2024.

If you want to average a rate (which is statistically still a dumb idea), then you’d take the monthly inflation rate, which is also reported. If you do that, they are practically identical for 2024 and year to date 2025.

There’s no discernible difference between inflation in 2024 and inflation in 2025.

I eagerly await your sources for your claims of lies. The jobs data is literally true, however.


You are welcome to complain about the context, but that doesn’t make it a lie.
 
There’s no discernible difference between inflation in 2024 and inflation in 2025.

So then what is with all the hysteria about tariffs? You mean the tariff “tax” isn’t being fully passed on to the consumer? How can that be? I can’t be that you guys are wrong…again, could it?

I eagerly await your sources for your claims of lies. The jobs data is literally true, however.

No, he didn’t add “new” jobs.

You are welcome to complain about the context, but that doesn’t make it a lie.

Context matters. Coming out of COVID and people going back to work is not adding “new” jobs.
 
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So then what is with all the hysteria about tariffs? You mean the tariff “tax” isn’t being fully passed on to the consumer? How can that be? I can’t be that you guys are wrong…again, could it?
Inflation would be lower if we hadn’t had tariffs. That’s just a fact. We didn’t even talk about the fact that Trump is still repeating the lie that other countries pay the tariffs. He might be so delusional as to actually believe it.

No, he didn’t add “new” jobs.
Jobs data disagrees with you. Jobs went up by 14 million.

Context matters. Coming out of COVID and people going back to work is not adding “new” jobs.
Post the exact quote please.
 
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Inflation would be lower if we hadn’t had tariffs. That’s just a fact. We didn’t even talk about the fact that Trump is still repeating the lie that other countries pay the tariffs. He might be so delusional as to actually believe it.

We don’t know if inflation would be lower. That is speculation. What we do know for a fact is that the cost of most tariffs is shared. PCE doesn’t lie. You and other Democrats, don’t seem to recognize how the strength of the US consumer base positively affects our ability to impose tariffs and have exporters eat more of the costs.

Many exporters in China, for example, can’t afford to lose our customer base due to higher tariffs. They lower their prices to some extent. The importers and/or the retailiers eat some of the tariff for the same reason. The consumer may see a small increase in prices, but there is no doubt that foriegn manufactures are in a sense subsidizing US government revenue. As the power of the tariffing country’s consumer increases, so does the amount of the subsidy. The US is in a very powerful position to tariff and not see huge price increases due to the strength of our consumer.

Jobs data disagrees with you. Jobs went up by 14 million.

Biden claimed 17 million “new” jobs. What is your point again?

Post the exact quote please.

Biden said, “We’ve created nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term.”

Biden's Familiar Talking Points in Final Remarks - FactCheck.org
 
We don’t know if inflation would be lower. That is speculation. What we do know for a fact is that the cost of most tariffs is shared. PCE doesn’t lie. You and other Democrats, don’t seem to recognize how the strength of the US consumer base positively affects our ability to impose tariffs and have exporters eat more of the costs.
Sure we do. Tariffs add cost. Goldman reported that 80% of tariffs are being borne by US businesses and consumers. Last report said consumers bore 20% and US businesses 60% which is expected to flip over time as businesses slowly shift the burden to consumers. Without the tariffs, that wouldn’t have happened. What’s 100% clear is that Trump lied about who is paying for tariffs.
Many exporters in China, for example, can’t afford to lose our customer base due to higher tariffs. They lower their prices to some extent.
A minor factor.
The importers and/or the retailiers eat some of the tariff for the same reason. The consumer may see a small increase in prices, but there is no doubt that foriegn manufactures are in a sense subsidizing US government revenue. As the power of the tariffing country’s consumer increases, so does the amount of the subsidy. The US is in a very powerful position to tariff and not see huge price increases due to the strength of our consumer.
Not price increases right away but probably over time. Meanwhile, domestic companies are going to have to pay those tariffs which means they have less to invest, expand and hire, or it eats their margins so much they go out of business.
Biden claimed 17 million “new” jobs. What is your point again?



Biden said, “We’ve created nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term.”

Biden's Familiar Talking Points in Final Remarks - FactCheck.org
Cool. He shouldn’t have said “new”, but then again we really don’t know how many were “new” anyway. You got him.
 
See no reason to spend time on people from either party that have no power any more.
My INTEREST is focused on those now in office, Who have the power to do good or harm.
 
As with salesmen, advertisers, lawyers, and other politicians, Trump's relationship with the Truth is spotty. He exaggerates his successes and exaggerates the failures (and claimed failures) of is political opponents. Certainly more so than most other politicians.

He is always in the spotlight - the Media love him - and his remarks are always under scrutiny. When Schumeer, Schiff, Jeffries, Pelosi, et al, do their lying, it goes without comment in Press, does it not? To cite the most prominent current example, how many in the non-Fox Media have called out Democrat "leaders" for continuing the claim that the Republicans engineered the current shutdown, when that is manifestly false? None of them.

One might argue that the Dems' lies are more substantive. O'Bama, knew he was peddling an egregious lie when he campaigned for the Affordable Care Act; he knew that by forcing insurers to cover those with expensive conditions on the same basis as healthy clients, health insurance premiums would necessarily rise. Biden intentionally opened the Southern border to many millions of unvetted Third World wretches, claiming all the while that the only solution was "comprehensive immigration reform" (amnesty, followed by naturalization). That was a whopper, was it not? Leftists have claimed for decades that "climate change" (nee "global warming") was an existential threat to humanity, justifying scores of stupid and counterproductive laws to impose greater and greater controls on private economic activity. This is now exposed as a cynical lie.

But you know what you are getting with Trump, eh? He is an incurable blowhard, who happens to accomplish more in a good month than any of his predecessors did in a four-year term. And there have been several good months already; he's just getting started.
 
He is an incurable blowhard, who happens to accomplish more in a good month than any of his predecessors did in a four-year term.
He’s better at convincing his cult followers that he’s accomplished something than actually accomplishing something.
 
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I said there is no quote of the lies, I just read the 2nd paragraph. There are no quote. Not even a para-phrase. There is some very incomplete, cherry picked words in which we are being told to believe is a lie. vague hersey.

Unless there is a quote with a link to the transcript then the idea that there is a lie by Trump, is an outrageous egregious lie meant to steal elections.
Trump lies, and you try and defend his lying by demanding specific quotes.

Your hero is a liar. The world knows it.

own it.
 
He’s better at convincing his cult followers that he’s accomplished something than actually accomplishing something.

That’s all he really cares about.

He cares about how he looks on TV, that all.

Because he knows his lowbrow audience think television and trash social media are real.
 
That’s all he really cares about.

He cares about how he looks on TV, that all.

Because he knows his lowbrow audience think television and trash social media are real.
Polls show over 70% of democrats TRUST the msm. Democrats believe the TV.

Democrats are the cult they claim maga to be.
 
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