“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”
What PolitiFact found
Trump signed the FUTURE Act, making a major funding stream for HBCUs permanent beyond 2019. But it’s a stretch to say he "saved" them from financial ruin.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (U.S. President) made this claim around 22 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 October 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/m53kMTYeOak?t=4307
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