“We didn’t lose one person in 18 months. And then they took over that disaster.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: There was an 18-month gap, but not in Trump's presidency alone.
Donald Trump
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.
“Kamala cast the tie breaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: His statement conflates and distorts two different policy proposals — one of which did not become reality — and misleadingly characterizes Harris’ position.
“News reports confirm Biden and Harris have weaponized the IRS to confiscate your tip money. Biden and Harris have literally unleashed the IRS to harass workers who receive tips.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The IRS program was never implemented
“The Harris/Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics. ... The new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the administration padded the numbers with an extra ... 818,000 jobs that don’t exist.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Each year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revises its monthly employment figures, which come from a survey of employers, based on more comprehensive data it obtains later from state filings. It's a routine revision.
“President Joe Biden "sent comrade [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] to see [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in Russia three days before the attack" on Ukraine.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: In February 2022, Harris went to a security conference in Germany to primarily talk with European leaders about Russian aggression toward Ukraine. She didn’t go to Russia, and there is no evidence she met with Putin.
“The ocean’s going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years … and you’ll have more oceanfront property, right?”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: In fact, the current rate of sea level rise is already a little more than one-eighth of an inch each year.
“Did you know the Kamala price hikes have cost the average American family $28,000?”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: This is a nonsense figure
“As Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz let rioters and looters burn down Minneapolis.”
FactCheck.org rated this: We Provide A Timeline
FactCheck.org says: We provide a brief timeline of events in May 2020 as a guide for readers to make up their own minds.
“The Biden administration "spent $9 billion on eight chargers!”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Trump is likely referring to $7.5 billion approved by Congress to help build a network of EV chargers across the U.S. over five years. But not all of the money has been spent, or even made available to states yet.
“Vice President Kamala Harris supports “mass amnesty and citizenship” for “all illegals … even criminals.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: None of the proposals she has supported would permit “mass amnesty and citizenship” for “all illegals … even criminals.” Those with a felony or three or more misdemeanors would be ineligible for a path to citizenship.
“On Kamala Harris' campaign: "There was nobody at the plane, and she 'A.I.'d' it, and showed a massive 'crowd' of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Kamala Harris drew a large crowd at a campaign rally near Detroit, according to photos, videos and press reports. But posts online baselessly claim that an image of the event was created by AI to inflate the crowd size.
“Photo of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 rally near Detroit was AI-generated and “there was nobody there.” Attendees pictured “didn’t exist.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Local news reports and dozens of photos and videos from local and national media outlets documented an Aug. 7 Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign rally with thousands of attendees at Michigan’s Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is “a person who transitioned” and “was a good male boxer.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Khelif was born a woman and has lived as a woman, participating in women’s boxing events for years.
“La grande majorité des citoyens de ce pays [me] soutient”
RTBF rated this: False
“Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: If Trump is comparing his Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse to King's 1963 March on Washington speech, then the latter was perhaps four times bigger.
“During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order May 28, 2020, calling up the Minnesota National Guard to respond to riots.
“Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: In 2019, Kamala Harris said, "I support a mandatory gun buyback program" for assault weapons. But that's not all guns, and it's not her current view.
“(Kamala Harris) "est devenue noire".”
RTBF rated this: False
“Vice President Kamala Harris “called for slashing consumption of red meat to fight climate change.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
FactCheck.org says: Harris once said she supported encouraging and incentivizing Americans to eat better, but she did not say she would restrict how much red meat is consumed.
“Vice President Kamala Harris "was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Harris, whose mother was born in India and whose father was from Jamaica, has always identified as both Indian American and Black.