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.
PolitiFact says: The White House website lists $9.6 trillion in investments, half of the figure President Donald Trump cites. But that $9.6 trillion includes aspirational, multi-year goals, and future purchases or sales of products, rat…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally decide that pardons are null and void. The U.S. Constitution gives presidents nearly unlimited power to issue pardons. But if someone’s pardon is revoked, that person can chall…
PolitiFact says: Eight widely followed poll aggregators show that President Donald Trump notched his strongest approval ratings, and his smallest disapproval ratings, in January at the beginning of his second term. Since then, his appro…
PolitiFact says: Large, publicly traded health insurers have seen stock price increases over the past 15 years, in one case exceeding 1,000%. Information that President Donald Trump appeared to be citing shows stock price increases gene…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump has not reduced the federal deficit by 25%. The deficit for fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30, was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal year 2024 deficit. Considering only the portions of fiscal year…
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump referred to a Walmart package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients that cost $55 in 2024 and costs $40 this year — a 27% decline. The 2024 and 2025 dinner packages are not identical. The $15 price d…
FactCheck.org says: $1.5 trillion is the total estimated cost over 10 years of the spending bill that Democrats had put forward at the beginning of the government shutdown. It is not the amount for health care coverage for people in the U.…
FactCheck.org says: News reports, police and fire department accounts, and a federal judge have all determined that protests are concentrated in the immediate area of the ICE facility and that they are largely peaceful.
PolitiFact says: At least two U.S. presidents — Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter — personally conducted negotiations that led to peace agreements between warring nations. Both negotiations resulted in Nobel Prizes for some of the par…
FactCheck.org says: Data shows that politically motivated violence comes from both the left and the right and, until this year, political violence in the U.S. had mostly been driven by right-wing extremism — white supremacy in particular.
PolitiFact says: By two measures — the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for "price stability" — the statement is inaccurate. The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fe…
FactCheck.org says: A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us the provisional number of drug overdose deaths in 2024 was 79,383, and an expert in addiction medicine told us Trump’s number was “a gross exagge…
PolitiFact says: The prices of some food items, such as eggs, bread and fruit, have declined on President Donald Trump’s watch, and overall energy prices have fallen 2.6%. But many food and energy items have seen price increases. Betwee…
PolitiFact says: The White House cited a quarterly set of federal government wage statistics. This shows that median wages rose by a cumulative $546 during the first two quarters of 2025. A different set of statistics — which economists…
FactCheck.org says: An 11-day stretch with zero murders is rare in the city, but there was a 16-day period with no murders earlier this year, from Feb. 25 to March 12, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.