Donald Trump

“We’ve lost 90,000 plants and factories ... since NAFTA.”

FactCheck.org says: Updated Census Bureau data show a decrease of about 74,000 “manufacturing establishments” in the U.S. between 1995 and 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. About one-quarter of the decline was in esta…

“In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”

“The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”

“We're making a fortune with tariffs. $2 billion a day.”

FactCheck.org says: The White House provided no evidence for this claim. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said that it has collected about $200 million per day in “additional associated revenue” from 13 of the president’s tariff-rela…

“On enacting country-by-country tariffs April 9”

“On new tariffs: "Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them. Very simple. Can’t get any simpler than that.”

FactCheck.org says: The White House divided the size of a country’s trade imbalance with the U.S. in goods by how much America imports in goods from that nation. Economists told us that’s not a legitimate way to calculate reciprocal tariff…

“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”

“Pardons issued by President Joe Biden are "null and void because I'm sure Biden didn't have any idea that it was taking place. And somebody was using an autopen to sign off and to give pardons to, as an example ... the J6 unselect committee.”

FactCheck.org says: Presidents don’t need to sign pardons for them to be official, the use of autopens is legal and there is no evidence any pardons were signed by a staffer without Biden’s knowledge or consent..

“Under the final two years of Biden, 1 in every 4 jobs created in America was a government job ... but under the first full month of President Trump ... 93% of all job gains were in the private sector.”

“Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”

“Ich hatte Probleme mit der EU, denn ... Sie haben uns mit Zöllen belegt. Sie tun es in Form einer Mehrwertsteuer, die etwa 20 Prozent beträgt”

Deutsche Welle says: Die Mehrwertsteuer wirkt nicht wie Zölle, sie ist vielmehr eine Verkaufssteuer, und der Mehrwertsteuersatz ist (zumindest in der EU) unabhängig vom Land des wirtschaftlichen Ursprungs.

“All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”

“[W]e were richest, the richest, relatively, from, think of this, from 1870 to 1913 ... because we collected tariffs from foreign countries.”

FactCheck.org says: In terms of the overall U.S. economy, real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product per capita is many times higher today than it was during the period cited by the president.

“Sie haben die Wahlen manipuliert, und ich wurde Präsident.”

Deutsche Welle says: Der Vorwurf "Sie haben die Wahlen manipuliert" bezieht sich auf die alten Anschuldigungen aus dem Jahr 2020, wonach die US-Demokraten die "Wahl gestohlen" hätten. Die Aussage "Und ich wurde Präsident" auf die Wahlergebn…

“$1.9 billion (went) to recently created decarbonization of homes committee," which was "headed up" by Stacey Abrams.”

“The Department of Government Efficiency has “found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.”

FactCheck.org says: The most recent update on DOGE’s website from March 2 reports that the department has only created an estimated $105 billion in savings thus far. Although Trump ticked off several examples of what he called “appalling w…

“The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”

PolitiFact says: Stacey Abrams was senior counsel for a group that was part of a coalition awarded a $2 billion Environmental Protection Agency grant. Abrams did not lead the coalition, nor did she directly receive any of the grant mone…

“Europe's aid to Ukraine "was in the form of a loan. They get their money back and we didn't.”

FactCheck.org says: Most of the aid from Europe hasn't been structured as loans and some U.S. aid has been given as loans, although the portion of loans in U.S. aid is smaller the portion in European aid.

“Les États-Unis ont "300 milliards de dollars de déficit commercial avec l’Union européenne”

“The U.S. has given Ukraine “$350 billion” for the war with Russia gave “$200 billion more than Europe.”

FactCheck.org says: Since 2022, Congress has appropriated about $174.2 billion in aid for Ukraine, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. Europe outpaces the U.S., not the other way around, according to the Kiel Insti…