“The crime rate now is the lowest it's been since 1900. That's 125 years.”
What PolitiFact found
Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 3 February 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 February 2026, 9 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-bill-signing-oval-off…
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