President
Donald Trump continued his diligent work making sure CNN senior reporter
Daniel Dale has job security Wednesday evening, including such a large “batch of lies” in his speech that Dale had to update his already lengthy fact-check the next morning.
Trump’s
primetime address to the nation was
widely panned by critics on both the right and left as largely “
pointless.” During his speech, the president made a
number of claims during his speech that were exaggerated, inaccurate, misrepresented, or just plain lies.
Papageorgio you've never forgiven Biden for saying one thing that turned out to not be true. Why don't you mind all of Trump's lies?
Trump falsely claimed, “Inflation is stopped.”
Trump repeated his false claim that “when I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years
After noting that the price of eggs has plummeted since March, Trump added, “And everything else is falling rapidly.” That is not true even if he was talking specifically about grocery prices, which are
up this year. Consumer Price Index data shows that
a far greater number of grocery items have
increased in price since he returned to office than have decreased.
Trump repeated his false claim that an executive order he issued on prescription drug prices will cut those prices by “as much as 400, 500, and even 600%.” These figures are mathematically impossible but he keeps saying it and no one calls him out on it.
Trump said, “Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon in much of the country, and some states it by the way just hit $1.99 a gallon.”
s of Wednesday, there were only four states whose average price for a gallon of regular gas was below $2.50
The AAA
national average was $2.905 per gallon.
Trump repeated his false claim that there has been “$18 trillion” in investment in the US during his second presidency
Trump repeated his false claim that he has ended eight wars
Trump repeated his false claim that “25 million” migrants entered the country under Biden
Trump also repeated his unsubstantiated claim that, during the Biden administration, foreign countries emptied their prisons and mental institutions to somehow send the people in them to the US as migrants, claiming that “many” members of the supposed “army of 25 million people” were “from prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums.” Trump has never provided corroboration for such claims about foreign countries in general or the specific places he has named in the past
Trump repeated his false claim that the big domestic policy bill he signed earlier this year includes “no tax on Social Security.”
Trump falsely claimed that, under Biden, there was “crime at record levels, with law enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden.” Neither of these two claims is true.
Murder spiked nationally amid the turmoil of the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, under both
Trump in 2020 and
Biden in 2021. But FBI data showed that both violent crime and property crime declined nationally under Biden in
2023 and
2024.
Trump added a false claim about Democrats, saying: “It was bad health care at much too high a cost, and you see that now in the steep increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats. And they are demanding those increases and it’s their fault. It is not the Republicans’ fault. It’s the Democrats’ fault.”
Trump said, as he regularly does, that “We’re bringing back clean, beautiful coal.” Though it’s true he has
made efforts to revive US coal production, it’s
not true that coal is “clean”; its use as a power source creates
polluting emissions that harm humans and the environment
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