There is a lot occurring within the information that it may be simple to miss the truth that the president continues to inform an entire lot of lies.
President Donald Trump delivered a dizzying number of false claims in his public remarks over the previous week. They included inaccurately rosy assertions concerning the US financial system and the battle with Iran, baseless assaults towards Democrats, and his acquainted egregious lies about American elections.
Below is a truth examine of 28 separate false claims Trump uttered between Monday and Friday. This is just not meant as a complete listing, and it doesn’t embrace a number of Trump claims which are unproven however not definitively debunkable.
Inflation and the financial system
1) The inflation Trump inherited: Trump falsely claimed, “When we inherited, when we started, we had the highest inflation in the history of our country.” They didn’t. The year-over-year inflation price was 2.9% in former President Joe Biden’s final full month in workplace, December 2024, and it was 3.0% in January 2025, when Trump took over; these figures are decrease than the newest price, 3.8% in April 2026, and unremarkable by historic requirements. Peak inflation underneath the Biden administration, 9.1% in June 2022, was the best in additional than 40 years – however even that 9.1% price was removed from the all-time high of 23.7%, which was reached in 1920, or the best level of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, 14.8%, which was reached in 1980.
2) The state of inflation: Trump falsely claimed, “We had inflation, but we’ve got that down.” Trump has not introduced inflation down. The most up-to-date inflation price, 3.8% in April, is the best since May 2023. Again, it was 3.0% within the month Trump returned to workplace in 2025.
3) Prices earlier than the battle: Trump falsely claimed that, earlier than the battle with Iran started on the finish of February, “We got the prices down and we got them down to numbers that in some cases people have not seen before.” Overall shopper costs had been rising, not falling, earlier than the battle; by way of February 2026, common costs had been up 2.9% general because the starting of Trump’s second time period. Trump might have pretty mentioned that some merchandise have gotten cheaper because the starting of his second presidency, however even previous to the battle, far more products had gotten costlier.
4) The pre-war inflation price: Trump falsely claimed that “inflation was at 1.6% for the last three months just prior to the war.” Nope. It was 2.7% in November 2025, 2.7% in December 2025 and 2.4% in January 2026; it was 2.4% again in February 2026, for which almost all the information was collected earlier than the battle started on the final day of the month.
5) Pre-war gasoline costs: Talking about gasoline costs, Trump falsely claimed that, earlier than the battle, “I was down to, in many cases, less than $2 a barrel – a gallon.” Four nights earlier than the battle, on February 24, the agency GasBuddy informed NCS that simply 4 stations nationwide, out of about 150,000 it displays, had been promoting for underneath $2 per gallon (except for particular reductions). Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum evaluation, informed NCS on Wednesday there would have been “the same or fewer stations” underneath $2 on February 28, since costs had been trending upward. The AAA nationwide common for a gallon of normal gasoline on February 28, the day the battle started, was $2.98 per gallon, and the bottom state common was Oklahoma’s $2.47 per gallon.
6) Beef costs: After blaming Biden for top beef costs, Trump falsely claimed that beef “prices are down.” Beef costs have really spiked throughout his presidency; the common value of floor beef hit another record high in April, $6.90 per pound. The May common is just not out there but, however even when this month occurs to register a decline, beef costs will nonetheless be far increased than their common of $5.55 per pound in January 2025, the month of Trump’s inauguration.
7) Investment within the US underneath Trump: Trump falsely claimed, “We have $18 trillion being invested in our country,” saying that this was “in 11 months, because the numbers for the 12th have not come up, so that’s gonna increase it yet further.” The $18 trillion determine is fiction. As of Friday morning, the White House’s own website mentioned the determine for “major investment announcements” throughout this Trump time period was “$10.6 trillion,” and even that was a serious exaggeration of precise funding. A detailed NCS review in October discovered the White House was counting trillions of {dollars} in imprecise funding pledges, pledges that had been about “bilateral trade” or “economic exchange” somewhat than funding within the US, and imprecise statements that didn’t even rise to the extent of pledges.
8) Factory development: Trump falsely claimed, “Factory construction is up.” Total spending on manufacturing construction, the metric the White House beforehand informed NCS that Trump is referring to when he makes such claims, is definitely down; the truth is, it had declined each single month of Trump’s second time period by way of March 2026, the newest month with out there knowledge. Trump has previously specified that he’s evaluating manufacturing development spending this time period to spending in 2022, partway by way of the Biden administration, however he didn’t say that this time – and, regardless, this deceptive comparability to 2022 ranges lets him take unwarranted credit score for the spending spike that occurred underneath Biden in 2023. You can learn extra here.
9) Taxes on Social Security: Trump falsely claimed he had achieved “no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.” The large home coverage invoice Trump signed in 2025 did create an extra, momentary $6,000-per-year tax deduction for people age 65 and older (with a smaller deduction for people incomes $75,000 per yr or extra), however because the White House has implicitly acknowledged, thousands and thousands of Social Security recipients will proceed to pay taxes on their advantages.
10) Democrats’ election victories: Trump falsely claimed of Democrats, “The only way they can win is to cheat.” Democrats, like Republicans, win elections truthful and sq..
11) Democrats and the dimensions of the Supreme Court: Trump falsely claimed of Democrats in Congress: “They want to go to 21 Supreme Court judges. That’s their perfect number. They talk about 13, but they want to go to 21.” Some Democrat someplace within the nation may need proposed having 21 Supreme Court justices as a substitute of the present 9, however there’s no foundation for Trump’s suggestion that this is the place of the celebration as an entire. A bill supported in recent times by a minority of the Democratic members of Congress would add 4 seats to the courtroom for a complete of 13 justices.
12) Kamala Harris and the border: Trump falsely claimed that Harris “never went to the border” though she “was the border czar.” Harris visited the border twice as vice chairman, once in 2021 and once in 2024. (And the Biden administration repeatedly mentioned she was by no means really the “border czar” – noting she had been given a narrower “root causes” mission of main diplomacy with Central American international locations in an try to deal with the explanations for his or her residents’ migration to the US.)
13) Obama, Biden and reflecting pool spending: Trump’s administration is spending greater than $13 million on a project to enhance the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, federal data present. Trump falsely claimed at one occasion, “President Obama and Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to fix it.” At one other event, he falsely claimed these two Democratic presidents “spent much more than $100 million on the reflecting lake” and that “they spent, some people say, $200 million.” These figures are incorrect; the White House couldn’t supply any corroboration for them when NCS inquired this week. The Obama administration spent about $35 million on a contract to attempt to repair points with the pool, however that’s not lots of of thousands and thousands, and the Biden administration didn’t go forward with any main pool restore undertaking. Chuck Sams, who was director of the National Park Service underneath Biden, informed NCS this week that that they had obtained a price estimate “above $100 million” for a “full rehabilitation” however had not finished the undertaking. (Sams mentioned it “would have more than likely moved forward if we had remained in office,” however Trump asserted that it already occurred.)
14) The standing of the reflecting pool underneath Obama and Biden: After making his false declare about how a lot Obama and Biden supposedly spent on the reflecting pool, Trump added one other false declare: “Do you know what they got out of it? A closed lake. It never opened and, when it did, it was shut right away.” After the Obama-era restore undertaking, which lasted roughly two years, the pool reopened in August 2012 and has been open for the overwhelming majority of the times since. There have been some short additional closures to cope with various repair and maintenance issues, together with one in October 2012, and a small fraction of the pool was closed for an prolonged stretch of 2015 and 2016 to restore injury brought on by the development of a close-by memorial – however all of that’s removed from Trump’s declare that “it never opened and, when it did, it was shut right away.”
15) Biden and electrical automobiles: Trump declared that he “ended Joe Biden’s insane electric vehicle mandate,” then added moments later, “I ended that whole nonsense. By 2030, you were gonna all have electric cars? I don’t think so.” Biden did make a legislative and regulatory push to get automakers to scale back emissions and undertake electrical automobiles, however he never had a requirement for American customers to own electrical automobiles; the tailpipe rules for automakers that had been unveiled by the Biden administration in 2024 aimed to have electrical automobiles make up 35% to 56% of recent automobiles offered in 2032.
16) The legitimacy of US elections: Trump falsely claimed at one occasion, “We have more corrupt elections than third world countries have;” at one other occasion, he falsely claimed that the elements of the nation gained by Democratic former Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election “were rigged, by the way,” including, “We have rigged elections.” US elections are free, truthful and never rigged; Harris legitimately beat Trump in varied areas though Trump was the authentic winner of the election.
17) The 2020 election: Trump falsely claimed that “you know we’re a three-term president” as a result of “we won three times.” Trump legitimately misplaced the 2020 election and is in his second time period as president, having gained in 2016 and 2024.
18) The legitimacy of mail-in voting: Trump falsely claimed that mail-in voting “is so crooked” and falsely claimed at one other occasion that “mail-in ballot is, by just the nature of it, it’s going to be corrupt.” Mail-in voting is a authentic technique utilized by authentic voters to forged authentic ballots. Elections specialists say the incidence of fraud tends to be marginally increased with mail-in ballots than with in-person voting – but additionally that each one the proof exhibits that fraud charges in federal elections are tiny even with mail-in ballots.
19) Who makes use of mail-in ballots: Trump falsely claimed, “We’re the only country in the world that’s doing mail-in ballots.” In actuality, dozens of countries use mail-in ballots. The listing consists of Canada, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
20) Trump’s election defeats in California: Trump falsely claimed, “If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California.” Clearly not. California’s votes are counted precisely, and it’s a Democratic-dominated state during which Trump has misplaced by large margins in all three of his races – by 30 percentage points in 2016 (greater than 4 million votes), 29 points in 2020 (greater than 5 million votes), and 20 points in 2024 (greater than 3 million votes).
21) Ballots in California: Trump falsely claimed of California, “They send out 38 million votes. Nobody knows where they’re going.” Both assertions are incorrect. California, which sends a mail-in poll to all energetic registered voters, had about 22.6 million voters registered as of about two weeks prior to the last presidential election and about 23.1 million voters registered as of early April 2026; there isn’t a foundation for any suggestion that some 15 million extra ballots had been distributed in any election, nor that elections workplaces don’t know the place they’re being despatched. You can learn extra particulars here.
22) A ballot-mailing error in Maryland: Trump falsely claimed, “In Maryland, as you probably saw, they had 500 – 500,000 mail-in votes that were corrupt. They were corrupt.” That’s not what occurred; the Maryland situation didn’t contain corrupt voting. Rather, Maryland’s elections board said that, due to an error within the printing course of, some voters who requested a mail-in poll earlier than May 14 for the state’s June 23 gubernatorial primaries had been despatched the incorrect celebration’s poll. The board mentioned any votes folks forged utilizing the inaccurate ballots had been voided and that voters will likely be despatched an accurate substitute poll.
23) Control of the Strait of Hormuz: Trump falsely claimed, “We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz, as you know, with our blockade.” The US clearly doesn’t have whole management of the Strait of Hormuz – as evidenced by one thing Trump mentioned quickly afterward on the identical occasion: “We want it open, we want it free, we don’t want tolls; it’s international, it’s an international waterway.” At the time he spoke, Iran was not permitting free passage by way of the waterway, although it had finished so earlier than the battle, and it was requiring ships to pay charges to cross.
24) The state of Iran’s army: Trump falsely claimed of Iran, “All of their material that they use for warfare is gone”; at one other occasion, he falsely claimed, “Everything’s gone.” Though there’s little question the US and Israel have degraded Iran’s army capabilities throughout the battle, Trump implicitly acknowledged this week that not “all” materials is misplaced and never “everything” is gone – saying, “They have a little ability. Their missiles are 82% gone, we estimate…Same thing with drones, they’re largely gone but they still have a little capacity.” NCS reported in April that, in response to three sources conversant in US intelligence findings, roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers had been nonetheless intact and hundreds of one-way assault drones remained in Iran’s arsenal; NCS reported Thursday that 4 sources mentioned US intelligence signifies Iran’s army is reconstituting a lot quicker than initially estimated and that “Iran also still maintains ballistic-missile, drone-attack and anti-air capability despite the serious damage inflicted by US-Israeli strikes, according to recent US intelligence assessments, meaning the quick rebuilding of military production capacity isn’t starting from scratch.”
25) Who makes use of birthright citizenship: Trump famous that there’s a looming Supreme Court choice about birthright citizenship, then falsely claimed, “And we’re the only country in the world that has it.” In actuality, about three dozen countries present computerized citizenship to folks born on their soil, together with US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the vast majority of South American international locations.
26) Migration underneath Biden: Speaking about migrants crossing the border, Trump falsely claimed, “You know how many people over four years in the last term? Twenty-five million people.” That determine is fictional, an extra exaggeration of Trump’s earlier “21 million” determine. Through December 2024, the final full month underneath the Biden administration, the federal authorities had recorded underneath 11 million nationwide “encounters” with migrants throughout that administration, together with thousands and thousands who had been quickly expelled from the nation. Even including within the so-called gotaways who evaded detection, estimated by House Republicans as being roughly 2.2 million, there’s no means the full was even near what Trump has mentioned.
27) Migration underneath Trump: Trump falsely claimed that “in 11 months, not one illegal alien was able to get into our country.” This is an exaggeration. US Customs and Border Protection said earlier this month that the authorities hadn’t launched any migrants into the nation over the past 12 months after encountering these migrants crossing the border. But it’s clear that some migrants evaded authorities to cross the border illegally throughout that interval, although it seems the variety of gotaways was a lot smaller than it was throughout the Biden administration. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks told the Washington Examiner that on December 18, simply 17 migrants crossing the southern border evaded arrest. The Examiner reported that Banks was “anticipating a day in the near future where not a single person who crosses illegally will get away,” however clearly that day hadn’t occurred but.
28) Migrants and homicide: Denouncing the Biden administration’s immigration file, Trump claimed, “We had 11,888 murderers, 50% of whom killed more than one person, and they allowed them into our country.” It’s not true that the Biden administration allowed in all these murderers; Trump was, once more, inaccurately describing federal knowledge. The Department of Homeland Security and independent experts have noted that the determine it seems Trump is referring to is about non-citizens who entered the US not slightly below Biden however over the course of a number of many years, together with throughout Trump’s personal first administration. They had been convicted of murder in some unspecified time in the future, often within the US after their arrival, and are nonetheless within the US whereas being listed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket” – which incorporates people who find themselves presently serving their jail sentences. You can learn extra here.