President of the United States. 1,168 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2018 to 2026. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
FactCheck.org says: Instead of actual tax savings, the president may have been referring to the average amount some tipped workers were able to deduct from their federal taxable income in 2025. The actual savings would be a fraction of tha…
FactCheck.org says: Extensive research has failed to turn up a link between vaccines and autism.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that splitting up the MMR vaccine would be safer or save lives. Death from MMR vaccination is exceedingly rare.
FactCheck.org says: Trump did not inherit the worst inflation in history. And while there was a big one-month drop in the rate of inflation in June, the annualized inflation rate was not lower than when Trump took office.
FactCheck.org says: It is not possible to eliminate fires in the boreal forest of Canada, and experts have said that large-scale forest management there is infeasible.
PolitiFact says: Multiple recent federal or independent analyses project that from 2028 to 2050, data centers’ energy needs will account for 6% to 25% of total U.S. electricity demand. That would represent a significant increase compare…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure form reported $1.4 billion in gains from cryptocurrencies, and another $400 million from non-stock sources such as real estate, legal settlements, overseas licensing ag…
PolitiFact says: The stock market has gone up during President Donald Trump’s second term, but his $30,000 figure for average 401(k) gains is not supported. Fidelity Investments data shows that during the majority of Trump’s second term…
FactCheck.org says: Trump was reacting to a paper by a group that was not part of the U.N., and the paper updated a range of scenarios exploring climate change, in part reflecting the progress the world has made on moving away from fossil …
FactCheck.org says: Fraudulent overpayments in Social Security are a small fraction of that program’s total costs.
PolitiFact says: Medical experts have said they believe that President Donald Trump recently took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. It is designed to detect cognitive impairment, not intelligence. Trump said he scored 30 out of 30. Tha…
PolitiFact says: In announcing a new $1.776 billion fund to compensate people the Trump administration says were victims of judicial "weaponization," the Justice Department said a 2011 legal settlement involving Native American farmers …
FactCheck.org says: Energy experts told us that gasoline prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the national average price is back to where it was before the conflict began.
PolitiFact says: Between May 4 and May 7, gasoline prices rose every day. Crude oil prices decreased, but daily variations aren’t reflected immediately in prices at the pump, experts say. By historical standards, U.S. gasoline prices ar…
PolitiFact says: Three traditional metrics on consumer confidence in the U.S. economy show it’s low today, and in at least one case, close to all-time lows. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending has fallen during President Donald Trump’s…
PolitiFact says: The United States produces almost as much oil as Russia and Saudi Arabia combined when measuring the combination of crude oil and natural gas liquids such as butane, ethane and propane — a common way of calculating ener…
PolitiFact says: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., has announced he will not run for a new term. But he will remain in the Senate until his term ends in January 2027.
FactCheck.org says: Not including a $20 billion loan, Joe Biden authorized about $183 billion in security, humanitarian and other financial aid for Ukraine after Russia's invasion in February 2022. Biden signed multiple spending bills pass…
PolitiFact says: The employment peak came in January 2026, and dropped the following month. However, population growth drives this metric, so economists do not consider it a meaningful statistic. Two other statistics — the labor force p…