“The ocean’s going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years … and you’ll have more oceanfront property, right?”
What FactCheck.org found
In fact, the current rate of sea level rise is already a little more than one-eighth of an inch each year.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 12 August 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 August 2024, 11 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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