departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews
Recorded in the president’s public schedule; the entry establishes the event, not any unstated outcome.
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Departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews.
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The record
What happened
Documented events, with the limits of the available evidence left intact.
arrives Joint Base Andrews
Recorded in the president’s public schedule; the entry establishes the event, not any unstated outcome.
Verified eventdeparts Joint Base Andrews en route to Selfridge Air National Guard Base
Recorded in the president’s public schedule; the entry establishes the event, not any unstated outcome.
Verified eventarrives Selfridge Air National Guard Base
Recorded in the president’s public schedule; the entry establishes the event, not any unstated outcome.
Verified eventFact-check desk
What the evidence supports
A deported Salvadoran man's knuckle tattoos literally read MS-13.
The letters and numbers shown in a circulated image were digitally added labels, not tattoos spelling MS-13.
The FBI confirmed Venezuela sent gangs to the United States.
Public reporting described conflicting anonymous intelligence accounts and did not establish the broad claim.
Nobody was really investing in the United States during Biden's presidency, including Apple.
Foreign direct investment continued under Biden, and Apple announced major U.S. spending and investment commitments during his term.
Democrats claimed the government was not allowed to deport people in the country illegally.
The cited objections concerned due process and compliance with court orders, not a categorical claim that deportation was forbidden.
The administration had banned eight major artificial food dyes.
The administration announced a plan to seek voluntary phaseouts and further regulatory action, not an immediate comprehensive ban.
For the first time in modern history, more Americans thought the country was on the right track than the wrong track.
The cited result came from one Trump-aligned poll; multiple other contemporary polls found the opposite.
International tourism to the United States was doing great.
Overseas visits in March were 11.6% lower than in March 2024, contradicting the contemporaneous claim.
The military suddenly had the best recruiting numbers in 30 years because Trump returned to office.
Recruiting had improved, but the gains began before Trump took office and analysts said the shift reflected work over the prior two to five years.
Native-born job gains exceeded foreign-born job gains for the first time in recent memory.
Native-born employment did exceed foreign-born employment over the cited recent span, but similar two-month periods occurred several times in 2024.
Seven to eight trillion dollars was invested in the United States in Trump's first two months.
The White House cited future announcements above $5 trillion, not completed investment, and the stated $7 trillion to $8 trillion total was not supported.
Transcript audit
5 transcripts located
These full-text records were checked for testable factual claims. A verdict appears above only when corroborating evidence supports one.
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Unleashing Economic Greatness↗New Media Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt↗The President departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews↗The President delivers remarks to the Michigan National Guard↗The President delivers his 100th Day in Office Achievement Speech↗
Bottom line
This edition distinguishes the documented schedule from conclusions the schedule alone cannot support.
Sources & notes
Records reviewed
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President’s Public ScheduleFactba.se / Roll Call · April 2025
↗02First 100 days claims reviewFactCheck.org · May 1, 2025
↗Newsrooms monitored for corroborating coverage: CNN · Reuters · Axios · Al Jazeera · Fox News. A newsroom is cited above only when its reporting directly supports that day’s entry.