“The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
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.
“Said an HHS inspector general report on a survey of hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic was “wrong.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Report Gave Survey Results
“What do you have to lose" from taking chloroquine for coronavirus?”
PolitiFact rated this: Glosses over multiple risks
“Banning dangerous foreign travel" from China on Jan. 31 was one of the actions the Trump administration took to combat the coronavirus “far earlier than anyone would have thought and way ahead of anybody else.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“There’s a study out that people with lupus aren’t catching this horrible virus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“We started off with an empty shelf. We didn’t have very much in terms of medical product [in the Strategic National Stockpile] … and we built something really good.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“We gave him [New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo] a lot of ventilators. And you know what? He has a lot of ventilators. The problem is with some people, no matter what you give, it’s never enough.”
Washington Post rated this: Misleading
“New York have a stockpile of thousands of unneeded ventilators”
USA TODAY rated this: Partly False: They do have a stockpile
“[T]his administration inherited a broken system, a system [for coronavirus testing] that was obsolete, a system that didn’t work. It was okay for a tiny, small group of people, but once you got beyond that, it didn’t work.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
“Said of the coronavirus outbreak: "I just want to reiterate, because a lot of people have been asking, 'Well, what would have happened if we did nothing? Did nothing — we just rode it out.' ... And I think we got our most accurate study today, or certainly most comprehensive. Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Estimate Known Since March 16
“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“If you look at swine flu …17,000 people died.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“Said General Motors and Ford are making ventilators "right now.”
FactCheck.org rated this: They Aren't Yet
“Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“In eight days, we’re doing more [coronavirus] testing than they’ve done in eight weeks," referring to South Korea.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
“The Defense Production Act is in full force, but haven’t had to use it because no one has said NO!”
Washington Post rated this: Not the whole story