“And I think we have a chance to save Social Security without doing anything to it, by just the numbers of fraudulent people on Social Security — people that are 115 years old, 125 years old, getting payments.”
Donald Trump
U.S. President. Cabinet meeting at the White House. Claim dated 27 May 2026.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Fraudulent overpayments in Social Security are a small fraction of that program’s total costs.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (U.S. President) made this claim around 27 May 2026. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 June 2026, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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