It was onerous to choose solely 25. But it was simpler than it was.
Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump’s first calendar yr again within the White House was an unceasing parade of lies. In 2025, although, the variability of Trump’s false claims shrunk whilst he maintained his trademark staggering frequency.
Trump’s mendacity has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It turned especially repetitive in 2025. While he continued to frequently sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to fabrications he deployed just about regardless of the setting and regardless of what number of occasions that they had been debunked.
Did you hear the one about how Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in funding? You in all probability did should you watched even a couple of Trump speeches or interviews. Same with the one about how client costs have fallen this yr, the one about how Trump ended seven or eight wars, and the one about how international leaders all over the world emptied their prisons and psychological establishments to ship undesirable residents throughout the US border as migrants.
Here is our extremely subjective record of Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025. We selected some as a result of the president repeated them notably typically, some as a result of they have been about notably consequential subjects, and a few as a result of they have been particularly egregious of their distance from actuality.
Inflation, tariffs and the financial system
Lie: Trump secured $17 trillion or $18 trillion in funding in 2025
The president who loves huge numbers, even if they’re fake, had a fictional figure he cited in speech after speech: a declare that he had secured “$17 trillion” in funding within the US in lower than a yr again within the White House. It didn’t assist Trump’s case that the White House’s personal web site said on the time that it was really $8.8 trillion – and even that determine was wildly inflated – however he proceeded to increase his declare to “$18 trillion” despite the fact that the web site still had it under $10 trillion.
Lie: ‘Every price is down’
Trump lied even about topics that on a regular basis individuals may themselves see he was mendacity about. He claimed within the fall that there was “no inflation,” although there was inflation; that “every price is down,” although costs have been up on hundreds of merchandise; that grocery costs have been “way down,” although they have been up; and that beef was the one grocery merchandise that had gotten costlier, although there have been dozens of others. Polls showed most Americans weren’t shopping for his assertions.
Lie: Trump was lowering prescription drug costs by ‘2,000%, 3,000%’
Trump deployed not solely implausible figures however unimaginable figures. He declared on quite a few events that his “most favored nation” coverage was going to carry down the value of prescribed drugs by “500%” or extra, generally “1,400 to 1,500%” and even “2,000%, 3,000%.” These claims are debunked by math itself – a decline of greater than 100% would imply that Americans would receives a commission to amass their drugs – however the president kept making them despite the fact that he may have merely touted real (less-than-100%) worth reductions on some medicine.
Lie: Foreign nations pay the US authorities’s tariffs
As client costs continued to rise, partly as a result of of Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imported merchandise, Trump clung to his acquainted lie that these tariffs are paid by international nations, not by individuals or corporations within the US. (The tariff funds to the federal government are made by US importers, not international exporters, and importers typically move on some or all of the added prices to the ultimate client.) The president essentially fact-checked himself in November, when he instructed an interviewer that he would decrease Americans’ espresso costs by lowering his tariffs on imported espresso.
Lie: Portland was ‘burning down’
The president repeatedly stated an American metropolis was “burning down” or “burning to the ground” despite the fact that it was absolutely not burning down or burning to the ground. Sporadic clashes between protesters and legislation enforcement exterior one Immigration and Customs Enforcement constructing in Portland didn’t imply a 145-square-mile metropolis was ablaze – as Portland residents, officials and media outlets stored noting as he stored mendacity.
Lie: Washington, DC had no murders for six months
The president continued his long-established sample of selecting dramatic untruths over details that will have been helpful to him if he had simply acknowledged them precisely. Instead of appropriately noting that crime in Washington, DC, declined after his federal takeover of legislation enforcement there in August, he falsely claimed thrice in a November speech that the capital hadn’t had a single homicide “in six months.” Washington really had greater than 50 homicides over the six months previous to the speech, police statistics and Washington Post tracking present.
Lie: ‘I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water’
Trump lied a few supposed drawback after which lied about his supposed answer to it. During his pre-inauguration transition interval in January, the president baselessly linked wildfires in Los Angeles to a completely unrelated effort to make use of some of California’s water to guard a fish species tons of of miles to the north. Then, as president in March, he conjured up a heroic story: “I broke into Los Angeles. Can you believe it? I had a break-in. I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down.” What Trump really did was pull a stunt unrelated to Los Angeles, pointlessly sending about two billion gallons of water from one half of California’s Central Valley to another half of that valley.
Lie: The Democratic governor of Maryland known as Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’
It was a trivial lie, nevertheless it was notable for its brazenness. After Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pushed again towards Trump’s assertions about public security in Baltimore, Trump claimed that when he beforehand met Moore in personal on the Army-Navy soccer recreation, Moore instructed him, “Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime” and “sir, you’re doing a fantastic job.” The president both forgot or didn’t care {that a} digital camera was current for the interplay, recording behind-the-scenes footage for a documentary present. The video, aired by Fox News, proved that Moore didn’t utter any of the reward Trump claimed he did – however, the day after the video got here out, Trump claimed that the digital camera “caught” Moore moderately than Trump’s personal fabrication.
Lie: Ukraine ‘started’ Russia’s conflict on Ukraine
Trump confirmed a penchant for fake history, rewriting the details round all the pieces from the Great Depression to his personal previous. Perhaps his most egregious examples have been about Russia’s conflict on Ukraine. “You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal,” Trump told Ukraine in February, reversing the fact of a conflict began by Russia. He later inaccurately minimized Ukrainians’ heroism in repelling Russia’s 2022 assault.
Lie: Trump was talking ‘in jest’ when he promised to instantly finish the Ukraine conflict
As anybody who watched his 2024 marketing campaign rallies may let you know, Trump ran on a critical promise to finish the conflict in Ukraine both “within 24 hours” of his return to the White House or as president-elect “before I even arrive at the Oval Office.” When a journalist requested Trump in May in regards to the unfulfilled pledge because the conflict continued to rage greater than three months into this time period, he selected to rewrite historical past about this too – saying, amongst different issues, that “obviously, people know that when I said that, it was said in jest.” The record shows it simply was not.
Lie: The US authorities had deliberate to spend $50 million on ‘condoms for Hamas’
To justify his push to slash US international assist spending, Trump deployed a very fictional instance of supposed waste: a claim that, till he intervened, the federal government had been planning to ship $50 million “to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.” Undeterred by fact checks that pointed on the market was no obvious foundation for the declare, he quickly inflated the invented determine to “$100 million.”
Lie: Every drug boat within the Caribbean ‘kills 25,000 Americans’
Another solely imaginary quantity in protection of one other controversial coverage. As Trump’s army strikes on alleged drug boats within the Caribbean confronted domestic and international criticism, he tried to persuade individuals that “every one of those boats kills 25,000 Americans.” That determine makes no sense, specialists famous; even when the boats have been really carrying lethal fentanyl as Trump claimed (on a route not known for fentanyl trafficking) and in the event that they have been carrying medicine supposed for the US (many specialists are skeptical), the complete quantity of US overdose deaths from all medicine in 2024 was about 82,000, in response to provisional federal data.
Lie: Trump ‘didn’t say’ he had no drawback releasing full footage of a September boat strike
Trump has been willing for years to openly deny having stated one thing that he had stated on digital camera. He did it again in December. On December 3, the president instructed an ABC News reporter that he would “certainly” launch, “no problem,” all further Pentagon footage of a follow-up strike the army performed in early September to kill survivors of its preliminary strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat within the Caribbean. On December 8, he falsely instructed one other ABC News reporter that “I didn’t say that” – then referred to ABC as “fake news” and personally disparaged the reporter who had precisely summarized his quote from 5 days earlier.
Lie: Numerous international leaders emptied prisons and psychological establishments to ship their most undesirable individuals into the US
No matter the alleged topic of a speech or interview, Trump typically managed to discover a solution to recite his most frequent migration story. Numerous international nations, he claimed again and again, emptied their prisons and psychological establishments and despatched the undesirable individuals previously residing in them to the US as migrants. (He generally added vivid thrives; in a speech in June, he said, “Their countries would bus them or drive them right to our border and say, ‘Go in there. If you ever come back, we’re going to kill you.’”) It didn’t appear to trouble Trump that his personal campaign and White House groups have been by no means in a position to produce proof that even one international chief had achieved this, not to mention international leaders “all over the world” as he claimed.
Lie: Trump ended seven or eight wars
Trump used deception in his campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize, asserting on the United Nations in September: “I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed.” He proceeded to record these supposed raging wars…and, as he did on different events, included “Egypt and Ethiopia,” who have been by no means at conflict throughout his presidency. (They have an ongoing diplomatic dispute about an Ethiopian dam challenge.) That wasn’t the only problem with Trump’s record, both; amongst different points, he included a thriller scenario between Serbia and Kosovo that additionally was by no means a Trump-era conflict and a conflict within the Democratic Republic of Congo that hadn’t ended. Trump began claiming he “ended eight wars” after he helped to dealer an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, even after some killing in Gaza continued and even after one other battle on his record, between Thailand and Cambodia, resumed in December.
Lie: ‘The people of Canada like’ the thought of turning into the 51st US state
Trump’s long list of early-2025 false claims about Canada, which he was proposing to annex, included a spread of inaccurate feedback about commerce and protection. One assertion stood out as particularly incorrect: the claim that “the people of Canada like” his concept of Canada turning into the 51st US state. Polls found the thought was wildly unpopular with the individuals of Canada, opposed by someplace round 9 in 10 adults.
Justice and elections
Lie: Capitol rioters ‘didn’t assault’
Trump has tried for more than four years to rewrite the details of the revolt of January 6, 2021, by which a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. This yr, after granting clemency to the perpetrators, Trump claimed that “the people that went down there, they had no guns,” although multiple rioters had guns; that rioter Ashli Babbitt “was innocently standing there, they even say trying to sort of hold back the crowd,” when she was killed by a Capitol Police officer, although video evidence exhibits she was shot as she was attempting to climb by a damaged window to the Speaker’s Lobby exterior the House of Representatives; and, maybe most egregiously, that rioters “didn’t assault,” although video after video and trial after trial made clear that many of them did.
Lie: Critical media protection of Trump is ‘illegal’
Trump so regularly claimed that information shops’ crucial protection of him is “illegal” that these accusations weren’t handled as information by most shops. It is price noting that Trump’s declare is a lie.
Lie: Trump didn’t stress the Justice Department to go after his opponents
CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell reminded Trump in late October that three of his political opponents had lately been indicted – former Trump nationwide safety adviser John Bolton, former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James – and she or he requested Trump if he had instructed the Justice Department to “go after them.” His response? “No, and not in any way, shape or form. No.” But that definitive declare was definitively debunked by a scroll by his personal Truth Social feed. Less than two months prior, Trump had made a social media post publicly pressuring the top of the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to take authorized motion “NOW” towards Comey and James. (Plus one other Trump foe, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.)
Lie: Obama, Biden and Comey made up the Epstein information
Trump deployed an audacious lie in help of his effort to prevent the release of paperwork associated to the deceased intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. He said in July: “You know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden (administration).” The Epstein information are actual paperwork that weren’t “made up” by anybody. And, as PolitiFact noted, federal investigations into Epstein occurred through the George W. Bush administration and the primary Trump administration, whereas Comey was within the personal sector; Epstein died greater than a yr earlier than Biden was elected president, although confederate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence. (Comey’s daughter Maureen Comey was a prosecutor within the instances towards Epstein and Maxwell, however that doesn’t assist Trump’s declare.)
Lie: The 2020 election was ‘rigged and stolen’
One of Trump’s largest lies of 2025 was additionally one of his biggest lies of 2020…and 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Months after his triumphant return to the White House, he continued to relentlessly push nonsense about his defeat in 2020 – wrongly saying the election was “rigged and stolen,” although it was free and honest, and that this has now “been caught,” although all that has been caught is the baselessness of such claims.
Lie: The US is ‘the only country in the world’ with mail-in voting
While looking for to eradicate mail-in voting, Trump repeatedly lied that the US is “the only country in the world” that makes use of it. Dozens of different nations use mail-in voting, together with Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland. Trump deployed comparable false claims in his quest to finish birthright citizenship, wrongly saying the US is the one nation that has that coverage really utilized by dozens of others.
Health care, laws and Democrats
Lie: Babies get 80-plus vaccines directly
Few political lies are as probably dangerous as lies about vaccines, and Trump delivered a flurry of these, too. Making up numbers once more, he falsely claimed in September that “you have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess, 80 different blends, and they pump it in.” He falsely claimed in October, “You give 82 vaccines in a shot to a little baby that hasn’t even formed yet.” Babies don’t get 80 or 82 totally different vaccines in complete, not to mention , and totally different vaccines aren’t combined collectively in a “vat.”
Lie: Trump’s huge home coverage invoice didn’t change Medicaid
Lots of Americans have been involved about how Trump’s “big, beautiful” home coverage invoice would have an effect on Medicaid. Trump’s answer? False declare it wouldn’t have an effect on Medicaid. “Your Medicaid is left alone. It’s left the same,” he said in June – although the invoice made main modifications to Medicaid guidelines, decreased federal funding for this system by tons of of billions of {dollars}, and was anticipated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to lead to thousands and thousands extra individuals being uninsured in 2034.
Lie: The home coverage invoice was ‘the single most popular bill ever signed’
As with costs, Trump portrayed up as down on his poll numbers. After a number of polls confirmed that the large home coverage invoice was extremely unpopular – more unpopular than any main invoice handed in additional than 30 years, in response to one scholar’s evaluation – Trump proclaimed it “the most popular bill ever signed in the history of our country,” repeating that “this is the single most popular bill ever signed.” He didn’t, and couldn’t, present any proof for the boast.