President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his message at the White home on Wednesday evening, at the time of the highest ratings, most of which had already been overthrown. Here's a verification of the facts.
Inflation and the economy
Trump's Inflation: At the end of the speech, Trump falsely stated that "inflation had been stopped". Inflation continued; yearly inflation rate in September, 3.0% She was the same as in January, erstwhile Trump returned to office – in fact, if we decision it to many decimal places, the rate in September was somewhat higher – and September was the 5th consecutive period in which the yearly inflation rate grew.
Inflation in Biden's Government: Trump reiterated his false claim that "when I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and any would say that throughout the past of our country."
The inflation rate in the last full period of Biden administration, December 2024, was 2.9% ; in January 2025. , the period of Trump's second inauguration was 3.0%. This is the same value as the latest available indicator erstwhile Trump occurs on Wednesday, 3.0% in September 2025 (Lithium ft has be published Thursday morning). We do not know who Trump meant by "some would say", but neither the December 2024 figure nor the January 2025 figure were even close the worst inflation in decades or even in history.
It is actual that yearly inflation rate in the U.S. peaked for about 40 years (not 48 years) during Biden's regulation in June 2022, at 9.1%, but even this consequence did not come close to record of all time 23.7%, established in 1920 – over 2 years before Trump returned. Inflation dropped rapidly before Trump's inauguration.
The cumulative price increase from the beginning to the end of Biden's regulation was besides not the worst in US history. Federal data shows that the cumulative inflation in Biden's regulation was half as low as during president Jimmy Carter's term.
Prices of foodstuffs: After noticing that the egg price has dropped sharply since March, Trump added, “And everything else is dropping rapidly”. This is not true, even if he specifically talked about the prices of foodstuffs that have increased In This year. Data on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) show that since his return to office much more food increased I don't think so. Latest available CPI data for September, available at the time of his appearance on Wednesday, they showed that average food prices increased by about 2.7% from September 2024; by about 1.4% from January 2025, Trump's period of return to office; and by about 0.3% from August to September.
It is likely that the November figures to be published on Thursday will show a decrease in the prices of foodstuffs per month, but these prices will almost surely stay higher during Trump's term.
Prices of prescription medicines: Trump reiterated his false claim that his executive regulation on the price of prescription medicines would reduce them "by up to 400, 500, or even 600%". These numbers are mathematically impossible; if the president magically forced the companies to lower the prices of all drugs to $ 0, that would mean a 100% reduction.
Gas prices: Trump said, "In most countries petrol costs little than $2.50 a gallon now, and in any states the price has just dropped to $1.99 a gallon." These claims require context.
According to data published by AAA Wednesday only in 4 states the average price of regular gasoline gallons was lower than $2.50 : Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa and Colorado. (In 9 consecutive states, the average price ranged from $2.50 to $2.60 per gallon.) National average AAA was $2,905 a gallon.
No state had an average price below US$2.339 per gallon in Oklahoma. And while any stations across the country offered gas for $1.99 a gallon or less, this number was small; Patrick De Haan, head of oil analysis at GasBuddy, estimated that this was between 75 and 100 stations out of tens of thousands of GasBuddy stations across the country. (Not including others offering peculiar discounts).
Investments in the USA this year: Trump reiterated his false claim that during his second presidency of the United States, "$18 trillion" was invested, saying on Wednesday, "I secured a evidence amount of $18 trillion of investment in the United States." This amount is fiction. At the minute of his message on Wednesday website The White home quoted the amount of "$9.6 trillion", which is simply a considerable exaggeration; a detailed analysis of CNN from October showed that the White home counted trillions of dollars in obscure investment declarations, declarations on "bilateral trade" or "economic exchange" alternatively than investment in the US, or vague statements that did not even scope the level of the declaration.
Immigration and abroad policy
Trump and War: Trump reiterated his false claim that he ended 8 wars this year, saying on Wednesday: “I restored American strength, settled 8 wars in 10 months.” Although Trump played a function in resolving certain conflicts (at least temporarily), the number of ‘eight’ is clear exaggeration .
Trump Before will explain That on his list of supposedly settled wars is the war between Egypt and Ethiopia, but it was not truly a war; it is simply a lengthy diplomatic dispute concerning large task of Ethiopian dam on the Nile tributary. Trump list includes another alleged war that did not truly happen for his presidency – between Serbia and Kosovo. (Sometimes he claimed , that he prevented the outbreak of a fresh war between the 2 entities, giving small details of what he meant, but that's different than deciding the actual war). His list besides includes alleged success in ending the war involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, but this war continues Despite the peace agreement negotiated by the Trump administration this year – which was never signed by the leading rebel coalition leading the fight.
Trump's list besides included an armed conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, where fighting re-exploded This period and continued until this week, despite the peace agreement negotiated by the Trump administration at the beginning of the year .
One can discuss the importance of Trump's function in ending the remaining conflicts in his list, or even question whether any of them have actually ended; for example, in November, after the October ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, continued to occur to killings in the Gaza Strip. Regardless, Trump's number of ‘eights’ is clearly overstated.
Migration and Biden: Trump reiterated his false claim that 25 million migrants entered the country during Biden's rule. The number of “25 million” is false; even the erstwhile number of Trump “21 million” was A gross exaggeration . By December 2024, Biden's last full period of administration, the national government noted less than 11 million “meetings” with migrants across the country during this administration, including millions that were rapidly expelled from the country. Even by adding alleged escapees who escaped detection, estimated by Republicans in the home of Representatives for about 2.2 million, there is no way that this sum is even close to what Trump said.
Trump besides reiterated his unsubstantiated claim that during the Biden administration, abroad countries emptied their prisons and psychiatric facilities to someway send people to the US as migrants, claiming that the "many" members of the alleged "arm of 25 million people" came “from prisons and detentions, psychiatric establishments and madhouses”. Trump has never provided confirmation of specified claims about abroad countries in general or about circumstantial places he has mentioned in the past: Venezuela and the Congo. Experts on Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the neighboring Republic of the Congo said during Biden's administration that they saw no basis for Trump's history, the governments of both Congolese countries told CNN that the stories were false and an expert on the global prison population said CNN, that he sees "absolutely no evidence" that any country is emptying its prisons to someway release prisoners to the US.
Other topics
Trump Act and Social Insurance: Trump reiterated the false claim that the large draft interior law, which he signed earlier this year, includes “no social safety tax”. The Act has actually introduced an additional temporary taxation credit of $6,000 per year for people aged 65 and over (with little deduction for people earning $75,000 a year or more), but the White home itself indirectly saidthat millions of Social Insurance recipients aged 65 and older will proceed to pay taxes on their benefits – and this fresh deduction, which expires in 2028, does not even apply to Social Insurance recipients, under 65 years old .
Biden, crime and law enforcement: Trump falsely claimed that in Biden's time, "crime had reached a evidence level, and law enforcement and specified words were absolutely prohibited". no of these 2 claims are true.
In Biden's time, there was no prohibition on the usage of the word "enforcement authorities"; the Biden administration itself repeatedly She utilized it.. For Biden, crime has not even reached evidence levels. Crime in the United States was much higher in the early 1990s and in different periods of the 1970s and 1980s than in the 1920s under Biden and Trump.
The number of murders increased rapidly across the country due to the confusion at the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, both for presidency Trump in 2020and Bidena in 2021 The FBI data showed, however, that both the number of violent crimes and crimes against property fell across the country for Biden's presidency in 2023 and 2024. Trump challenged FBI data and although they have defects and limitations, There are no groundsto claim that crime reached a evidence level in the Biden era.
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