“I didn’t fire any working scientist.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: News reports and interviews with past and current HHS employees show that scientists have been let go from multiple agencies at HHS.
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“A lab leak is "the true origins" of COVID-19.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Unsupported
FactCheck.org says: There isn't clear evidence that the coronavirus came from a lab. The origin is unknown, although published scientific research points to a natural spillover from animals to humans.
“Inflation and gas prices [are] at four-year lows.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Outdated or out-of-context data
FactCheck.org says: Average gasoline prices are higher now than when President Trump took office in January. And while core inflation was 2.8% in March and April, the lowest since March 2021, economists say that tariffs imposed in April co…
“THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' ... will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: A CBO analysis of an early version of House reconciliation bill said that under the bill 1.4 million people "without verified citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status" would lose state-funded health …
“A video shows "Burial sites [for] over a thousand of white farmers" in South Africa.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: In a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, U.S. President Donald Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for a thousand white farmers. But it actually showed a 2020 demonstration bringing…
“We’ll do close to $10 trillion of investment ... because of the tariffs.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
“Europe doesn't "use the chickenpox vaccine specifically because the preclinical trial shows that when you inoculate the population for chickenpox, you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Some countries in Europe do routinely vaccinate children against chickenpox. Others do not, in part due to theoretical concerns about shingles. But there isn’t strong evidence that vaccinating children is causing a prob…
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place" in South Africa against "white farmers.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Unsupported
FactCheck.org says: There is a real issue with South African farmers being killed or violently attacked, experts told us. But most of the violent acts are committed during robberies in a country where most of the wealth and land post-apart…
“In President Donald Trump's first 100 days, "DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl … which saved ... 258 million lives.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“kids had almost no risk for COVID-19.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: It’s true that kids are typically at much lower risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 than adults, and some physicians do not think it’s necessary for healthy children to receive annual updated doses. But the risk …
“Research shows that only a “very, very small portion” of the increase in autism “can be charged to better recognition or better diagnostic criteria.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“The cost of eggs has come down like 93%, 94% since we took office, and they’re pretty much normally priced now.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: As of March, the most recent data available, the average retail price of eggs was up, not down. And there are no states where the price of gasoline has dipped below $2. The national average is $3.11.
“Whatever 'due process' [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] was entitled to, he received.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“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…
“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.
“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…
“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.