WAPO: Fact-checking Trump's 2025 inaugural address (full of false claims already debunked in election)

[Stann]

No one cares about your Democrat lies, deceits and false interpretations of numbers. Did you Democrats learn anything in this election? Less and less people can believe you anymore. The Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome is alive in the Democrat Party. So, stop interrupting the President while he fixes all the mess Biden and his crime family caused.

What mess would that be ?

 

[blackhawk]

Fact checkers an oxymoron if there ever was one.

 

[westwall]

Yes , the circus is in town.

Nope, the circus is leaving.

Sucks to be you.

 

[Stann]

I think that Clayton's probably gonna have a perpetual case of the Mondays for the next four years.

The harm that is done will affect ALL Americans , what we lose cannot be replaced.

 

[okfine]

George Will, really?

WOW, for an idiot you can actually read.

 

[Oddball]

‘Inaugural addresses, with their emphasis on lofty rhetoric, are generally not fertile ground for fact-checking. But President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration speech was more akin to a State of the Union address, with a laundry list of proposals and plans — and a hefty dose of false claims that we’ve fact-checked before.

Here’s a quick rundown of what was inaccurate or misleading in Trump’s address, in the order in which he made the claims. We’ll ignore rhetoric that is expressed more as an opinion — “for many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens” — even though the factual basis for such statements is thin.

“The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.”


Trump refers to “weaponization,” code for President Joe Biden supposedly using the resources of the U.S. government to target his political opponent. There is no evidence that Biden directed the Justice Department or local prosecutors to pursue prosecutions of Trump — and the actions were not violent.



“It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding American citizens, but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.”


This statement was a regular staple of Trump’s campaign speeches, but immigration experts know of no effort by other countries to empty their prisons and mental institutions, a claim Trump appears to have invented. As someone who came to prominence in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Trump appears to be channeling Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s 1980 Mariel boat lift. About 125,000 Cubans were allowed to flee to the United States in 1,700 boats — but there was a backlash when it was discovered hundreds of refugees had been released from jails and mental health facilities.

“We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders, but refuses to defend American borders, or more important, its own people.”

Trump appears to be referencing aid to Ukraine after it was attacked by Russia, but there is nothing unlimited about the aid. Congress, after lengthy debate, appropriated the money — most of which benefited Americans. The Fact Checker examined the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel, approved in April, and found that nearly 80 percent went either to weapons manufacturers in the United States to replenish stocks or supply weapons or to fund Defense Department operations in the United States and overseas.

“Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina, been treated so badly.”

From the moment North Carolina was struck by Tropical Storm Helene, Trump claimed without evidence that the Biden administration treated rural areas in the state with disdain. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided $292 million in public assistance grants and $202 million for debris removal, while the Federal Highway Administration made available $100 million to repair damaged roads and bridges. FEMA also says more than 7,600 households checked into FEMA-funded hotels.’

https://archive.is/Dv9vm

Trump is a liar and propagandist, Trump is a sex offender, criminal, and convicted felon completely unfit to be president.

 

[Oddball]

I just read what George Will had to say about Trump's inaugural speech. You should read it.
He says it's one of the worst in history.

He's spot on. It was really bad.

Stuffed shirt pipsqueak douchebags like Will made Trump possible.

He should just STFU and go watch baseball games for the rest of his irrelevant life.

 

[Natural Citizen]

The harm that is done will affect ALL Americans , what we lose cannot be replaced.

We lost Tater...

 

[okfine]

Stuffed shirt pipsqueak douchebags like Will made Trump possible.

He should just STFU and go watch baseball games for the rest of his irrelevant life.

The speech was garbage and of course, you defend it.

 

[westwall]

The speech was garbage and of course, you defend it.

It was average. The EO signing was epic though.

 

[Cougarbear]

What mess would that be ?

Whatever Biden did was a mess creator. So, pick one. The crime family border is one start. Inflation. Paris world money grab accord is a loss of a trillion dollars. Wars around the world because of lazy woke government. And on and on…

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The speech was garbage and of course, you defend it.

Democrats are not garbage, they are rotting offal they hate whatever is better than they.

 

[Oddball]

The speech was garbage and of course, you defend it.

Didn't hear the speech or defend jack shit...What I did was point point that opinions of fossilized drips like George Will don't had up to a popcorn fart anymore...That's prolly why his washed up ass is writing for the Warshton Compost.

The TDS is seriously fucking with your reading comprehension...

 

[okfine]

Didn't hear the speech or defend jack shit...What I did was point point that opinions of fossilized drips like George Will don't had up to popcorn fart anymore...That's prolly why his washed up ass is writing for the Warshton Compost.

The TDS is seriously fucking with your reading comprehension...

Then you obviously bloviated your usual non-sequitur. Go figure.

 

[Oddball]

Then you obviously bloviated your usual non-sequitur. Go figure.

You're the dope who claimed that I defended something, when 4th grade reading comprehension could tell you that there was no defense of anything.

Maybe you could have a 4th grader translate posts into English for you....

 

[Marchimedes]

I just read what George Will had to say about Trump's inaugural speech.

Was that before or after you paid too much for a muffler?

You should read it.

I'd rather just go ahead and trust you.

He says it's one of the worst in history.

I'm convinced.

He's spot on. It was really bad.

Rub it in.

 

[okfine]

You're the dope who claimed that I defended something, when 4th grade reading comprehension could tell you that there was no defense of anything.

Maybe you could have 4th grader translate posts into English for you....

Twisting your BS isn't that hard, skippy.

 

[okfine]

Was that before or after you paid too much for a muffler?



I'd rather just go ahead and trust you.



I'm convinced.



Rub it in.

WTF and who the hell are you?

 

[Oddball]

Twisting your BS isn't that hard, skippy.

Gee, three posts and you haven't called me a Russian yet.

The TDS must really have you by the nuts!

 

[okfine]

Gee, three posts and you haven't called me a Russian yet.

The TDS must really have you by the nuts!

I can if it will make you feel better.

And unlike you, I've got some.