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FactCheck.org found West Texas Intermediate crude was down 24.8% from January 17 to December 8, while noting that broader energy-price measures were mixed.

FactCheck.org reported that monthly production was up from January and that the 2025 daily average was on course to exceed the prior annual record.

USDA data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a decline of more than 645,000 recipients between January and May. This supports the numerical decrease, but not Trump’s separate claim that it was a record.

A crime-data analyst told FactCheck.org the description was accurate, while noting both crimes had fallen from their 2023 peaks.

BLS data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a dozen grade A white eggs averaged $3.78 in June, down from $4.95 in January.

A RAND comparison found overall U.S. prescription-drug prices averaged 2.78 times those in 33 other developed countries; the gap was larger for brand-name drugs.

The Associated Press reported a popular-vote margin of 2,284,316. This supports the numerical claim, but not Trump’s separate characterization of the result as an unusually large mandate.

Inflation was 2.7% and the Biden-era peak was not the highest in U.S. history.

The national average was about $2.90 and no statewide average was $1.99.

The estimated average tax cut was about $800; savings in the stated range applied on average only to the top 1%.

The estimate substantially exceeded credible measures of entries and the unauthorized population.

A price cannot fall by more than 100%.

Documented announcements were far below that range and included speculative or previously announced commitments.

Consumer prices were still rising at about 3% year over year.

No statewide average was that low, though isolated stations advertised such prices.

Federal income taxes raise far more money than tariffs; analysts told PolitiFact that replacing income taxes would require implausibly high tariff or sales-tax levels and would not match the revenue base.

Contemporary job-approval polling was below several earlier peaks in both his first and second terms.

Private-sector jobs increased every year under Biden and rose by about 14.3 million over his term; government jobs also increased but at a slower rate.

USDA data reviewed by FactCheck.org showed a larger decline from October 2024 to January 2025, before Trump's second term began.

The fiscal-year deficit declined by less than 25%, and tariff revenue alone did not support attributing that reduction as claimed.

Tariff collections were measured in hundreds of billions, not trillions, and analysts found the proposed payments could exceed available revenue.

Consumer prices were up 3% year over year.

The available food-at-home index did not support a broad decline.

The cited ICE docket includes people accumulated over decades and does not show that Biden released that number.

The arithmetic was implausible compared with total U.S. overdose deaths and conflated potential doses with actual deaths.

Legal experts and Supreme Court precedent indicate courts can review bad-faith, plainly unauthorized or unlawful uses of military force.

Prior Justice Department analysis and constitutional scholars have said autopen use can be lawful when authorized by the president; no solid proof established unauthorized pardons.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the result.

Congressional and oversight totals for U.S. Ukraine-related support were far below $350 billion.

The $1.5 trillion was the estimated 10-year cost of Democrats' broader spending proposal, not money for undocumented immigrants' health care.

Both administrations continued extensive U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israel despite policy disagreements with Netanyahu.

CDC schedules show babies receive nowhere near 82 vaccines in total, and not 82 vaccines in a single shot or visit.

Typical infant vaccine doses are about a fraction of a teaspoon, not anywhere near the size Trump described.

Experts told CNN and FactCheck.org that some Amish families vaccinate and use medications, and autism exists in Amish communities.

No separate measles-only shot was available in the United States.

The figure did not make sense against total U.S. overdose deaths and was unsupported by evidence about the boats' cargo.

Price cuts greater than 100% are mathematically impossible, and the policy's actual effect remained uncertain.

Biden legitimately won the certified 2020 election, and audits, courts and officials found no outcome-changing fraud.

Portland Fire & Rescue identified only a few protest-adjacent fire calls near the federal building, not fires across the city.

Protests were concentrated near an ICE facility and normal city life continued across Portland; the city was not burning down.

Reviews found the FBI deployed agents in response to the Capitol attack and did not authorize or direct them to incite illegal activity.

Inflation was still positive and had risen since the spring, with August CPI around 2.9% year over year.

Average grocery prices were higher than when Trump returned to office, even though some individual items had declined.

Electricity prices were higher than a year earlier and higher than in January.

The figure exceeded the White House's own recent public tally and relied on commitments that were not documented as paid investment.

China had the world's largest operating wind-farm capacity and the largest number of operating wind farms.

Onshore wind is often cheaper than coal or gas on a levelized-cost basis, while nuclear is typically more expensive than wind.

Scientific evidence shows the planet is warming and that human greenhouse-gas emissions are the primary driver.

Scientists use both terms; climate change describes the broader effects of a warming planet, not a retreat from warming evidence.

The accord did not require the United States to pay $1 trillion, and U.S. climate-finance commitments were far lower.

The Paris accord took effect for all participating countries in 2016 and allowed each country to set its own voluntary targets.

Federal encounter data, even with estimated gotaways, did not come close to 25 million people entering the country.

Public polling averages showed his approval well below peaks from earlier in the year and his first term.

Untreated fever and pain during pregnancy can create maternal and fetal health risks, and acetaminophen remains a recommended option when needed.

Research found many Amish parents vaccinated at least some children, and autism has been documented in Amish communities.

Hepatitis B can spread from mother to baby at birth and through nonsexual household contact, and early infection is more likely to become chronic.

Studies have not found thimerosal or aluminum adjuvants in vaccines to be harmful in the way Trump suggested; thimerosal was already removed from routine childhood vaccines except some multidose flu shots.

Children do not receive 80 vaccines at once; the claim mischaracterized the recommended vaccination schedule.

Evidence does not show the combined MMR vaccine causes autism, and separate component shots are not available in the United States.

The childhood schedule does not give children 80 different vaccines, and the claim conflated doses, ingredients and visits.

Consumer prices were still rising, with year-over-year inflation around 2.9%.

International homicide-rate comparisons did not place Chicago among the world's highest-ranked cities, though Chicago had a high number of murders among large U.S. cities.

Weekly homicide totals vary, and the absolute formulation was contradicted by homicide-free stretches.

D.C. had a 16-day period without a reported homicide earlier in 2025, from February 25 to March 12.

U.S. Ukraine-related appropriations and support made available were far lower than $350 billion.

Comparable direct-aid tracking showed European allocations exceeded U.S. allocations.

Numerous other countries permit mail voting for all or some voters.

States administer elections under constitutional authority with congressional, not presidential, oversight.

Fraud is rare and has not been shown at a scale that changed a national election.

Audits and election-security reviews found no evidence that voting systems changed the 2020 result.

Paper ballots still require counting and verification, and election-night totals are unofficial.

The reviewed U.S. appropriations and oversight totals were far below the figure Trump gave.

FactCheck.org found Congress approved about $174 billion and an oversight report put total U.S. support made available at more than $187 billion.

Comparable Kiel Institute tracking showed European direct aid allocations exceeded the U.S. total.

The city had a high homicide rate, but the international ranking and absolute comparison were not supported.

The 2023 rate was the highest in about 20 years, but the city peaked in 1991 at more than twice the 2023 rate.

The preliminary annual benchmark revision was announced in August 2024, before the election, and the November jobs report itself showed weak growth.

Campaign filings and the performer’s representatives did not support an $11 million endorsement payment.

Federal investigations and records concerning Epstein predated the Biden administration and involved multiple agencies and administrations.

The Consumer Price Index was still rising, up 2.7% over the year ending in June.

The national average was similar in 2021 and was slightly higher than when Trump took office.

No statewide AAA average was below $2; the lowest was about $2.70.

China had the world's largest installed wind-power capacity and was adding turbines at a record pace.

Consumer prices were still rising; annual inflation was 2.7% in June.

CNN identified dozens of campaign appearances in which Trump delivered the promise seriously rather than as a joke.

Consumer prices rose 2.4% over the year ending in May and also increased month over month.

The territorial caliphate was declared defeated more than two years into Trump's first presidency.

Mamdani identified as a democratic socialist and advocated electoral, mixed-economy policies rather than abolition of private property or one-party communist rule.

Iran retained nuclear material, technical expertise, centrifuge-manufacturing capacity and sites outside the three attacked facilities.

The U.S. struck three sites, not all Iranian nuclear sites, and available assessments did not support complete destruction of the program.

The Intelligence Community assessed that Iran was not building a weapon and that its leader had not authorized the suspended weapons program.

April and May tariff collections were less than half that figure; the cited total resembled a much longer fiscal-year period.

The events were domestic protests surrounding immigration raids, not a military invasion by a foreign state or army.

Audits, recounts, court cases and election-security officials found no fraud capable of changing the result.

The figure compared expiring provisions with the bill's full mix of tax changes and did not represent the average increase taxpayers would face.

Harvard had supplied required student records while contesting broader demands.

The footage showed a memorial demonstration with white crosses, not an actual burial site for the people named in the claim.

The repeated genocide framing was not supported by experts, crime statistics or the South African government's record; farm murders were real but did not establish genocide.

The legislation included eligibility and financing changes projected to reduce enrollment and federal spending.

Five negotiated prices remained more than twice comparable-country averages, but the negotiations still reduced their U.S. prices.

Farm attacks and killings occur, but experts and available crime data did not establish a government-backed or group-destruction campaign meeting the genocide claim.

South Africa's expropriation law allows takings only under defined public-interest conditions with legal process; reviewed evidence did not show government confiscation of white-owned farms.

At the time of the claim, the legal arrangement, final recipient and transfer terms had not been publicly explained.

The White House tally was far lower and included broad commitments rather than verified completed investment; independent review found the near-$10 trillion figure unsupported.

Lower import volume can reduce customs receipts and signal trade disruption; economists did not support the claim that a port slowdown itself meant the country was financially better off.

The law funded broadband access and digital-skills programs for covered populations including rural residents, veterans, older adults and people with disabilities; it was not limited to race and had not been ruled illegal.

The letters and numbers shown in a circulated image were digitally added labels, not tattoos spelling MS-13.

Foreign direct investment continued under Biden, and Apple announced major U.S. spending and investment commitments during his term.

The cited result came from one Trump-aligned poll; multiple other contemporary polls found the opposite.

Overseas visits in March were 11.6% lower than in March 2024, contradicting the contemporaneous claim.

The White House cited future announcements above $5 trillion, not completed investment, and the stated $7 trillion to $8 trillion total was not supported.

The Consumer Price Index and food-at-home index were still rising in the available data; the statement was not true as a broad price claim.

No statewide average was below $2; the national average was above $3.

The latest retail average was higher than in January.

The food-at-home index increased in the latest available month.

Prices were still rising, though the annual rate had slowed.

The policy was a nonbinding sales goal plus emissions standards, not a purchase mandate.

The 2022 peak was the highest in about four decades, not in U.S. history.

The U.S. figure was inflated and comparable European aid exceeded U.S. aid.

International estimates generally placed the U.S. below several countries for both crude-oil and recoverable natural-gas reserves.

FactCheck.org found the death total during the U.S. construction phase was far lower and that fewer than 1,000 of those deaths were Americans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The relevant diversity hiring initiative and controller qualification rules did not follow the sequence Trump described.

The identified aid contract was for health services in Mozambique and did not fund condoms for Hamas.

The Justice Department inspector general found no evidence that undercover FBI employees were in the protest crowds or at the Capitol.

State murder penalties and Justice Department data did not support the broad comparison Trump used to justify the pardons.

Inflation peaked at 9.1%, below several earlier U.S. episodes.

Panama operates the canal; a Hong Kong company managed ports at either end.

Several countries have larger estimated oil or natural-gas reserves.

Federal rules set emissions and efficiency requirements but did not require consumers to buy electric vehicles.

FactCheck.org found about 7,600 total deaths during the U.S. construction phase, with fewer than 1,000 of them Americans.

Courts, audits and election-security officials found no outcome-changing fraud.

The committee published an extensive report and supporting records.

The congressional investigation found no evidence of such an offer or presidential order.

Congress had certified the completed electoral vote count; the statement mischaracterized the status of the election result.

Year-over-year wage growth had exceeded inflation since June 2023.

The raw count reflected population growth; the employment-to-population ratio was slightly lower than in January.

The Pennsylvania figure did not establish the broader claim; nationwide manufacturing employment was down by about 49,000 since January.

Some long-run gains were large, but the claim overstated the increase and compressed the time period.

The baskets contained different items and quantities, preventing the direct price comparison Trump made.

Russia tested nuclear-capable delivery systems, but North Korea was the only country to conduct a nuclear explosion this century.

The count overstated modern routine use; FactCheck.org reported 30 crises since 1794, with more than half before 1900 and the most recent use in 1992.

Experts credited Trump with a role in some conflicts, but several cited disputes were not wars, remained unresolved, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

The timeline was backwards for key federal cases: winning the 2024 election led the Justice Department to drop prosecutions under its sitting-president policy.

About 37% of presidents had invoked the act, not half, and legal experts said courts can still review an invocation's legality.

He had a role in some ceasefires and accords, but several cited conflicts remained unresolved, were diplomatic disputes rather than wars, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

The claim omitted that Iran had largely complied with the agreement before Trump withdrew from it and that experts credited the pact with limiting Iran's nuclear program.

Obama left office before the Abraham Accords existed, and Biden pursued Saudi normalization efforts that stalled after the Gaza war.

The tally included diplomatic disputes or conflicts that had not fully ended, even after peace agreements or ceasefires.

The law created a temporary deduction for some older taxpayers but did not eliminate taxation of Social Security benefits.

Arrests and clashes occurred around the ICE facility, but available reporting showed limited, localized protests rather than a citywide insurrection.

Trump played a role in some ceasefires and accords, but several cited conflicts were not wars, remained violent or unresolved, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

Wind is variable, but grids use multiple power sources and storage rather than relying on wind alone.

Coal plants can use pollution controls, but coal combustion still emits pollutants and more carbon dioxide than other fossil-fuel power sources.

The cited inspector general report covered years spanning both administrations and did not establish that hundreds of thousands of children were missing or harmed.

Reported autism prevalence has risen, but researchers attribute much of the change to broader definitions, awareness and diagnostic practices rather than a demonstrated pharmaceutical cause.

Experts credited him with a significant role in ending fighting in some conflicts, but several examples were not wars or were not conclusively settled.

FactCheck.org found no serious bail-reform model required automatic release for murder suspects; judges generally retain detention authority.

Washington had serious crime problems, but official and independent data showed violent crime had fallen since the 2023 spike.

Research and city data did not support a broad causal claim that bail reform worsened crime in those places.

Some jurisdictions allow judges to release murder suspects without cash bail in rare cases, but many policies have violent-felony exemptions or detention discretion.

Several cited disputes were not wars conclusively ended by Trump, and some remained unresolved.

Payment timing produced the monthly surplus; the government still had a large year-to-date deficit and had recorded other monthly surpluses more recently.

Some categories declined, but the overall Consumer Price Index rose between January and June.

The national average was roughly unchanged from inauguration and its longer decline primarily reflected global crude-oil markets.

Egg prices had declined since January, but economists cited avian flu and seasonal supply effects as the main drivers rather than Biden policy or a new Trump-only fix.

The measure provided a temporary, income-limited deduction rather than eliminating Social Security taxation for every beneficiary.

The strikes severely damaged the sites, but contemporaneous assessments did not establish complete destruction of Iran's facilities or capability.

The strikes caused severe damage, but early intelligence and independent experts found surviving underground structures, material and enrichment capability.

Some individual brand-name drugs showed gaps in that range, but the overall average was closer to three times and U.S. generic prices were generally lower.

Although Qatar supplied the aircraft without a purchase price, converting it for presidential use was expected to require tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in security, communications and survivability work.

Some companies announced U.S. projects, but several commitments predated the tariffs or had other drivers; the evidence did not support a broad tariff-causation claim.

The cited objections concerned due process and compliance with court orders, not a categorical claim that deportation was forbidden.

The administration announced a plan to seek voluntary phaseouts and further regulatory action, not an immediate comprehensive ban.

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 employment did exceed foreign-born employment over the cited recent span, but similar two-month periods occurred several times in 2024.

They were the lowest in decades, but monthly averages were lower in portions of the 1960s.

Recruiting improved before the election, and August 2024 had a higher total.

The economy had grown at least 2.5% annually and unemployment was historically low.

Old database entries without death annotations did not establish that those people were receiving payments.

The figure exceeded encounters at the southwest border and conflated repeat encounters and people who were expelled or removed.

The current CDC estimate was real, but the older figure came from decades-old, narrower diagnostic criteria; the causal implication was not established.

Coal and petroleum plants decreased, but the total number of electric power plants increased from 2020 to 2023.

Northern-border fentanyl seizures rose but represented less than 1% of nationwide border fentanyl seizures, making the Canada comparison misleading.

International IDEA identified 34 countries that allowed postal voting for all or some voters.

The comparison treated a single printed ballot as equivalent to a ballot-marking device and omitted scanners, accessibility equipment, staffing and other election costs.

Zelenskyy was democratically elected, and Ukrainian law prohibits national elections while martial law is in force during Russia's invasion.

The claim distorted Zelenskyy's distinction between direct military support and the broader U.S. appropriation, which also funded U.S.-administered activities.

Zelenskyy distinguished direct aid received by Ukraine from broader U.S. war-related spending; he did not say half had disappeared or been stolen.

FEMA extended hotel assistance for many households, and the broad description omitted eligibility reviews and extensions.

More than 140 police officers were assaulted and the injuries included concussions, fractures and other serious harms.

Tariffs are collected from U.S. importers, which may pass the cost to consumers.

FEMA was delivering supplies and had approved hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance.

Energy prices and fiscal policy were factors, but economists also identified pandemic supply shocks, demand shifts, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and labor-cost pressures; the claim oversimplified causation.

No evidence established the broad claim.

The cited review found no evidence supporting a broad exodus of companies.

FactCheck.org cited immigration and Venezuelan crime experts who said there was no evidence for a government policy sending such people to the United States.

The administration did not release evidence for the cargo claim; FactCheck.org noted fentanyl is primarily trafficked through Mexico, not by sea from Venezuela or Colombia.

The public record did not establish a definitive damage assessment proving complete obliteration of the facilities.

Some studies show associations, but the most rigorous reviews have not established causation.

Portland police said they had not found evidence that protesters were professional agitators or anarchists, though some individuals had been arrested for criminal conduct.

Research has shown associations in some studies, but no causal relationship has been established and other research points away from causation.

Research has not shown a causal link between correctly dosed acetaminophen use in children and autism.

A National Research Council review found existing research was not informative enough to determine whether capital punishment deters homicide.

There were investigations and allegations about crime-data handling, but experts said homicide data were reliable and public evidence did not establish the broad charge.

A commander was under investigation over crime-data changes, but public evidence did not establish broad falsification of D.C. crime statistics.

No evidence showed political manipulation of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates; routine revisions follow a published methodology.

Iran could potentially produce weapons-grade material quickly, but intelligence agencies assessed that it was not building a weapon and experts said weaponization would take months or longer.

The reviewed reporting identified no evidence that the protests as a whole were organized by paid rioters.

No evidence was provided for an organized effort to pre-position bricks or weapons for the Los Angeles demonstrations.

The Guardian identified no evidence supporting the accusation that state or city officials paid protesters to attack federal officers.

The pledge depended on future corporate behavior and government-approved deal terms; contemporaneous reporting did not provide enough evidence to verify the promised employment outcome.

Trump announced the claimed benefits before the final national-security arrangement and investment timetable were public, so the future job and economic-impact totals could not yet be independently verified.

The order set targets and contemplated later rulemaking but did not specify an immediate implementation mechanism; experts said whether or when savings would reach patients was unknown.

Public reporting described conflicting anonymous intelligence accounts and did not establish the broad claim.

DOGE claimed substantially less in savings and publicly documented only a fraction of that amount; it did not substantiate hundreds of billions in fraud.

No evidence established a coordinated policy by foreign governments to send such people to the United States.

FactCheck.org reported the proposed technology was still being developed and experts questioned whether a shield could protect the entire United States.

FactCheck.org found Trump provided no evidence, and the inspector general report did not show outside agitators caused or directed the violence.

No evidence was identified for a coordinated policy by foreign governments.