“Kilmar Armado Abrego-Garcia "has MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles.”
PolitiFact rated this: Experts doubtful of MS-13, tattoo link
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“many autistic children were "fully functional" and "regressed … into autism when they were 2 years old. And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”
PolitiFact rated this: Exaggerated
“Arizona Democrats “needed a lawsuit to force them to remove 50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Under the SAVE Act, “as long as you have a Real ID … it should be easy for you to register to vote.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The SAVE Act, would require in-person proof of citizenship to register to vote. Several Republicans have said that Real IDs would suffice, but PolitiFact found only six states issue IDs that comply with the bill’s requi…
“Look, we’re making $2 billion a day now [from tariffs]. And during Biden, we were losing $3 billion a day.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: Economists told us that Trump appears to be wrongly comparing a very high – and unlikely – estimate of potential daily revenue from his tariffs with a figure reflecting the average daily U.S. trade deficit during Biden’…
“The Department of Government Efficiency found evidence that thousands of noncitizens illegally registered to vote and many "who did vote.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Unsupported
FactCheck.org says: Voting experts say the claim is highly dubious, and warn that when matching millions of numbers in databases, even a small percentage of errors can distort things.
“Coal is “clean,” “cheap” and “incredibly efficient,” people have bemoaned and decimated the industry “for absolutely no reason.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Experts agree the main culprit for the decrease in coal-fired power in recent decades was the surge of more cost-effective and cleaner kinds of energy, especially natural gas. Also, coal combustion emits more carbon emi…
“We’ve lost 90,000 plants and factories ... since NAFTA.”
FactCheck.org rated this: That figure is questionable
FactCheck.org says: Updated Census Bureau data show a decrease of about 74,000 “manufacturing establishments” in the U.S. between 1995 and 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. About one-quarter of the decline was in esta…
“In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“On the measles outbreak in Texas: "the growth rate … has diminished substantially.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: A review of state data indicates there’s no decline yet in the pace of cases.
“The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“We're making a fortune with tariffs. $2 billion a day.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: The White House provided no evidence for this claim. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said that it has collected about $200 million per day in “additional associated revenue” from 13 of the president’s tariff-rela…
“On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9”
PolitiFact rated this: Full Flop
“They’re setting the groundwork to ‘eliminate‘ Americans’ hard-earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare all to fund tax breaks for their ultra-wealthy backers.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Experts share a concern that disorderly actions by the Trump administration could cause administrative errors and disruptions, but there has been no proposed change to benefits mandated by law.
“Says Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director, said, “Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Searching Google and the Nexis news database, we found no credible reports that the Trump administration ever publicly considered a 90-day tariff pause. The White House X account called the speculation “fake news.”
“Video of gray skies in northern Michigan is proof of weather modification.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“On new tariffs: "Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them. Very simple. Can’t get any simpler than that.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: The White House divided the size of a country’s trade imbalance with the U.S. in goods by how much America imports in goods from that nation. Economists told us that’s not a legitimate way to calculate reciprocal tariff…
“The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“There is a “loophole” in the 22nd Amendment that would make it possible for Donald Trump to seek a third term as president.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Missing context
“Kilmar Armado Abrego-Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”
PolitiFact rated this: False