Donald Trump Today

Claims assessed

May 2026,
by the verdicts.

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

31daily editions
23claims assessed
1supported
Supported1False14Misleading6Unresolved2

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

False 14

A cognitive screening test demonstrated extreme intelligence.

The screening test checks for possible cognitive impairment and is not an intelligence test or a measure of exceptional intelligence.

Iran's navy, air force and all other military capabilities were gone.

Iran's forces were significantly degraded, but intelligence assessments said substantial missile, drone and air-defense capabilities remained.

Three Iowa gas stations displayed regular gasoline prices between $1.85 and $1.90 during his January visit.

Tracked regular-gas prices did not support those figures; the claim may have conflated regular gasoline with the niche E85 blend.

Prescription drug prices had fallen by 400% to 600%.

A price reduction greater than 100% is mathematically impossible.

Eighteen trillion dollars in investment was coming into the United States in eleven months.

The White House listed $10.6 trillion in announcements, and that total included vague, nonbinding or non-investment pledges.

The Obama and Biden administrations spent hundreds of millions of dollars repairing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The Obama-era contract was about $35 million and the Biden administration did not undertake the proposed major rehabilitation.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is 2,400 feet long and longer than the world's tallest building.

The pool is about 2,028 feet long, while the Burj Khalifa exceeds 2,700 feet.

Stopping federal fraud would produce a balanced budget.

Even the government's high-end estimate of annual fraud losses was far smaller than the projected federal deficit.

Maryland sent 500,000 fake, corrupt or illegal ballots to help Democrats.

A vendor error produced duplicate primary mailings, but safeguards prevented duplicate voting and there was no evidence of a partisan fraud scheme.

The federal government had created numerous reserves similar to the new anti-weaponization settlement fund.

The cited precedents were not comparable federal reserve funds of the kind described.

Twenty-five million people entered the United States under Biden's border policy.

Credible measures of encounters, releases and the unauthorized population do not support treating 25 million people as admitted entrants.

No one had entered through the border during the preceding 11 months.

Border encounters fell sharply, but official data did not show zero entries or encounters.

Gasoline prices had come down very substantially that day.

Available price data did not show a substantial same-day decline.

Consumer confidence was way up.

Major consumer-confidence measures had declined rather than risen sharply.

Method

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