Donald Trump false statements fact check

President Donald Trump made myriad false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, many of which he has repeated frequently throughout his second term in the White House.

Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, told AFP that Trump's speech consisted mostly of "recycled and debunked claims" (archived here).

Trump wrongly suggested that climate change isn’t real and that the world is getting cooler, as he has before. In Youngstown, he referred to a 2018 climate report and said that “we had a lot of cooling and the ice is now bigger than it’s ever been, for some reason. It grew a lot.” He went on to falsely claim that “the word ‘warming’ didn’t work” so the term “climate change” is now used instead.

President Donald Trump is hitting the campaign trail to support Republican candidates in toss-up races that will determine which party controls Congress for the final two years of his presidency. PolitiFact listens to Trump’s public remarks every day. Although there is always room for surprising new lines, he tends to repeat boasts about his achievements and attacks on Democrats. Here’s a list of more than two dozen go-to Trump statements and how they square for accuracy, drawing from his Republican National Convention midterm speech, subsequent speeches and interviews, and his Sept.

Mostly False. The stock market has notched notable increases during Trump's second term, but a $46,000 rise is not supported.

WATCH LIVE: President Donald Trump's 2026 State of the Union address · Trump has spent the last year touting his accomplishments while mocking the record of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. But much of this bluster is based on false and misleading claims — many of which are likely to be a part of the president's address to the nation. Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

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When the president spoke at the UN, the White House’s own website claimed there had been “$11.2 trillion” in “major investment announcements” during Trump’s second term, far less than the “$21 trillion” in commitments the president cited. And a detailed CNN review in 2025 found the White House list was counting trillions in vague investment pledges, pledges that were about “bilateral trade” or “economic exchange” rather than investment in the US, and vague statements that didn’t even rise to the level of pledges.

Though Trump falsely claimed Sunday that grocery prices have come “way down” from the Biden era, the chatbot rightly said overall grocery prices “have not fallen since January 2025” and have actually increased.

So hatte Trump mehr als 260 mal versprochen, die Mauer zu Mexiko sei bald fertig. Fast 200 mal reklamierte der Präsident für sich, das US-Militär komplett neu aufgebaut zu haben - was Faktenchecker ebenfalls als falsch bewerten.

Dann steigerte sich der Präsident immer weiter und kam schließlich auf 39 solcher täglichen Falschaussagen im letzten Amtsjahr. »Er brauchte 27 Monate für 10.000 Aussagen und weitere 14 Monate um auf 20.000 zu kommen.

Donald Trump hat in einem Interview mit dem Kommentator Hugh Hewitt erneut zahlreiche falsche Behauptungen aufgestellt. „CNN“ berichtet, dass der ehemalige US-Präsident mindestens elf nachweislich falsche Aussagen gemacht hat.