Donald Trump Today

Claims assessed

February 2025,
by the verdicts.

A claims-only index of every assessment published in that month’s daily editions. Activity without an assessed claim is excluded.

28daily editions
13claims assessed
0supported
Supported0False8Misleading5Unresolved0

What the verdicts show

Only attributable claims count.

Attendance, travel, meetings and other schedule facts remain in daily timelines but are excluded from claim totals.

Unresolved marks an evidence limit.

This verdict is reserved for a specific Trump claim when available evidence cannot support a conclusive finding.

Full index

Every assessed claim

Supported 0

False 8

California had only just finished voting and people were still voting a week and a half earlier.

California certified its statewide 2024 election results on December 13; later counting did not mean people were still voting.

The Carter-Baker election commission concluded that mail-in voting causes massive fraud.

The commission discussed absentee-ballot vulnerabilities and safeguards but did not conclude that mail voting invariably produces massive fraud.

The United States had given Ukraine $350 billion.

Congress had appropriated about $174 billion, roughly half the amount claimed.

Europe had contributed only $100 billion to Ukraine, far less than the United States.

Comparable tracking showed European allocations exceeded the U.S. total.

Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's approval rating was 4%.

No identified poll supported 4%; a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey conducted that month found 57% trusted Zelenskyy.

The United States ranked last in education out of 40 countries while ranking first in spending per pupil.

International education and spending comparisons did not support both parts of the claim.

CBS News and 60 Minutes replaced Kamala Harris's interview answers with completely different, better answers from another part of the interview.

The two broadcasts used different portions of the same answer; the released transcript did not show CBS replacing an answer with a different response.

Unresolved 0

Method

Totals reflect verdicts on attributable Trump claims published in the daily editions for this month. Evidence gaps that are not claims are excluded.