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Fact check: Trump keeps making stuff up about Canada
President Donald Trump’s latest attacks on Canada are again colliding with the facts, as key claims about Canadian unemployment, trade, tariffs, agriculture and the US-Canada economic relationship fail to match available data.
Fact check: Every single part of this Trump story about South Korea is wrong
President Donald Trump’s latest retelling of South Korea’s military cost-sharing history contains a series of false or misleading claims, from how much Seoul paid during his first term to what happened after Joe Biden took office.
Fact check: How Tim Scott and a Republican attack ad misleadingly snipped key context from El-Sayed’s ‘dangerous’ speech
A Republican campaign ad is under fire for taking Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s “dangerous” comment out of context, turning a broader attack on corporate and political interests into a misleading political attack.
Fact check: Trump makes numerous false and misleading claims about vaccines and autism
Trump’s latest vaccine claims about autism, MMR safety, vaccine doses and the number of required shots are contradicted by decades of scientific evidence and federal health data.
Fact check: Five false claims Trump made in one meeting with Erdogan
Trump Repeats Debunked Claims on Greenland, Ukraine, the Economy, and the 2020 Election Ahead of NATO Summit
Fact check: Trump told NBC that he never promised not to start a new war. He did, repeatedly
An examination of campaign speeches and public statements argues that President Donald Trump repeatedly promised Americans there would be no wars during his second term, contradicting his later claim that he "didn't promise anything."
Trump’s Iran War Claims: Fact Check on False, Unproven and Conflicting Statements
President Trump falsely claimed Iran possesses Tomahawk missiles while defending his earlier statements on a deadly strike on an Iranian school, a claim quickly rejected by arms experts.
Fact check: Trump’s latest fake history about the war in Ukraine
President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he knew why Russian troops weren’t able to enter Kyiv in the days after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s tanks, Trump said, got destroyed by missiles “because the tanks got stuck in the mud.”
Fact check: Trump calls to prosecute Beyoncé based on a nonexistent $11 million payment
President Donald Trump over the weekend called for the prosecution of music superstar Beyoncé – based on something that did not actually happen. Trump claimed in a social media post that Beyoncé broke the law by supposedly getting paid $11 million for her endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris during an October 2024 event in Houston. But there is simply no basis for Trump’s claim that Beyoncé received an $11 million payment related to the Harris campaign, let alone for the endorsement in particular.
Fact check: New Trump ad uses edited quote to attack nonexistent Harris immigration proposal
A new television ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign piles deception upon deception to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration. The ad uses an edited quote to attack Harris over a supposed proposal that she hasn’t actually made.