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.
“The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.”
PolitiFact says: Economy and labor experts told PolitiFact immigrants who recently crossed the U.S. border likely aren’t taking Michigan’s union jobs.
“Donald Trump’s fine in the New York fraud case “is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism.”
PolitiFact says: Navalny led protests against an authoritarian regime and returned to his country knowing he was a target and landed in prison. Trump was found by a judge to have inflated real estate assets and has the right to appeal.
“Well, they want him [Biden] very badly to be president,” referring to world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
“President Joe Biden “directed New York AG Witch Hunt” into Donald Trump’s real estate”
PolitiFact says: Letitia James said during her 2018 campaign for New York attorney general that she would investigate then-President Donald Trump. In March 2019, she began an investigation. Those actions were before Biden was president.
“Todo sale del Departamento de Justicia, todo sale de Biden. Es una caza de brujas contra su oponente político”.”
“Who can get elected with high interest rates, open borders, food that costs 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent more than it did just a few years ago?”
Washington Post says: Food prices are up 20%
“Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”
PolitiFact says: Food costs have risen faster under President Joe Biden than under any of his five most recent predecessors. Still, food prices have not risen as fast as Donald Trump said.
“And that’s why they [NATO] have money today because of what I did. And then I hear that they like Obama better. They should like Obama better. ... Because he didn’t ask for anything.”
FactCheck.org says: Obama and his top aides repeatedly pressured NATO countries to increase their military spending.
“I cooperated far more” than Joe Biden in the classified documents investigations.”
PolitiFact says: Trump refused to turn over documents and enlisted others’ help to destroy or hide evidence, an indictment stated. Biden cooperated with searches and sat for a voluntary interview with the special counsel.
“If you take a look at those five or six tweets [on Jan. 6], you will see very beautiful, very heartwarming statements.”
Washington Post says: Trump failed for three hours to tell rioters to leave the Capitol
“Biden “already [has] the right to CLOSE DOWN THE BORDER NOW.”
FactCheck.org says: Trump tried to bar migrants caught crossing into the U.S. illegally from pursuing asylum and failed.
“In Oklahoma, "I won 77 out of 77 counties. Ronald Reagan is second with 56.”
PolitiFact says: Donald Trump won each of Oklahoma’s counties in 2016 and 2020, but he was not the first Republican presidential candidate to do so. Other Republican presidential nominees accomplished this feat in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
“Nikki Haley wants to raise the Social Security retirement age by 10 to 12 years, even for people currently “in their 60s or 70s.”
FactCheck.org says: Haley has advocated raising the retirement age, but only for people now in their 20s.
“Democrats “used COVID to cheat” in the 2020 election”
PolitiFact says: Many states changed procedures in 2020 to make it easier to vote by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic for voters of both parties and independents. This was done out in the open and was not cheating.
“Those cars are all going to be made in China. … There’s no such thing as fair transition that destroys over 100,000 auto manufacturing jobs.”
Washington Post says: With the investments made by Biden experts expect jobs to be saved and made in the USA
“Construí cientos de millas de muro fronterizo y ellos dirían él (Trump) no construyó cientos de millas [...] lo llaman una renovación”.”
“Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley “doesn’t win” in general election polls against President Joe Biden.”
FactCheck.org says: In 17 polls over the last three months, Haley topped Biden in eight polls and fared better against Biden than Trump in seven of them.
“We had the best unemployment rates ever. And they were real unemployment, not like you have today where nobody’s working and they consider it to be.”
Washington Post says: There's been no change in the way the unemployment rate is calculated
“We won New Hampshire three times. We won it every time — we win the primary, we win the generals.”
PolitiFact says: Trump did win the New Hampshire Republican primary in 2016, 2020 and 2024. But he lost the state in the general election to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to Joe Biden in 2020.