Hmm a news anchor on FOX suddenly realising that Trump is lying? Surely not..
https://www.aol.com/articles/fox-maria-bartiromo-puzzled-iran-164536000.html
DogMan · 61-69, M
That is amazing, because Democrats never lie. 🙄
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Waveney · M
@DogMan Wrong again. Here you go. Every single one of his lies sourced.
Sources for all 40 claims
“Ukraine started the war.” — False. Russia launched the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False and Misleading Ukraine Claims.
“Zelensky has a 4% approval rating.” — False/unsupported. PolitiFact found no poll supporting 4%; a February 2025 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll found 57% trust in Zelensky.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s attacks on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“He would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.” — False as a fulfilled/past promise. Trump repeatedly promised he could end the war within a day, including before taking office; the war continued.
Source: FactCheck.org, Tracking Trump's Promises at the 100-Day Mark.
“Zelensky showed zero gratitude to America.” — Misleading. This was Trump's characterization of Zelensky, not an objectively measurable fact. FactCheck.org documents Trump's broader false/misleading attacks on Zelensky and U.S. aid.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False and Misleading Ukraine Claims.
“Babies are forced to get 72 vaccine doses.” — False. The 72 figure referred to a possible number of doses over childhood, not 72 injections for babies; combination vaccines mean multiple doses can be administered in a single shot.
Source: PolitiFact, Did the vaccine schedule require kids to be injected 72 times? No.
“Injecting disinfectant treats COVID.” — False. Trump publicly raised injecting disinfectant/cleaning products as something worth investigating; disinfectants are not COVID treatments and can be toxic.
Source: The April 23, 2020 White House coronavirus briefing is the primary source; contemporaneous fact-checking documented the statement.
“COVID-19 would just ‘disappear’ like a miracle.” — False. Trump repeatedly predicted the virus would disappear, including his February 2020 “like a miracle” statement, but it plainly did not.
Source: FactCheck.org's COVID-19 fact-check archive; the statement is also documented in contemporary White House remarks.
“The 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud.” — False. Courts rejected the claims for lack of evidence; Trump's own election-security officials called the election the most secure in American history.
Source: FactCheck.org, Donald Trump's Closing Arguments.
“Millions of undocumented immigrants voted in federal elections.” — False/unsupported. There is no evidence of voting by millions of undocumented immigrants. Noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections, and large-scale illegal voting has not been demonstrated.
Source: FactCheck.org, Donald Trump's Closing Arguments.
“His 2025 airstrikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program.” — Initially misleading; later disputed, and the situation is more complicated. FactCheck.org reported that the June 2025 strikes severely damaged key facilities and set the program back, rather than literally destroying Iran's entire nuclear capability.
Sources: FactCheck.org, June 2025.
“Drug prices dropped by 600%.” — Mathematically impossible. A 100% reduction takes a price to zero; a 600% reduction would imply the seller paying the buyer. Trump actually claimed reductions of 400–600%.
Source: FactCheck.org, FactChecking Trump's Rapid-Fire Prime-Time Address.
“The 2025 Venezuela deployment was purely a drug war.” — Misleading/unsupported. The administration justified military action partly around drugs, but reporting documented broader objectives and serious questions about whether counter-narcotics was the sole purpose.
Source: AP, A war on drugs or a war on terror? Trump's military pressure on Venezuela blurs the lines.
“His 2017 inauguration had the largest audience ever.” — False. Obama's 2009 inauguration had a substantially larger in-person crowd, and Trump's television audience was also lower.
Source: FactCheck.org, The Facts on Crowd Size.
“Mexico would pay for the border wall.” — False. Mexico did not directly fund the wall, and the USMCA did not contain a mechanism whereby Mexico paid for it.
Source: FactCheck.org, Is Mexico Paying for the Wall Through USMCA?
“Climate change is a hoax invented by China.” — False. Trump repeatedly called climate change/global warming a “hoax,” including claims connecting it to China; the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change is overwhelming.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Clings to Inaccurate Climate Change Talking Points.
“Windmills cause cancer.” — False. Trump said, “the noise causes cancer.” There is no credible evidence that wind-turbine noise causes cancer.
Source: PolitiFact, Donald Trump's ridiculous link between cancer, wind turbines.
“The U.S. has the cleanest air and water in history.” — False/misleading. Trump said the U.S. had the cleanest air and water in the world; international environmental rankings did not support that.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Bungles Climate Change in UK.
“Crime rates dropped during his first term.” — Misleading. Some crime measures declined during portions of Trump's first term, but violent crime and especially murder increased sharply in 2020, the final year of his first term.
Source: FactCheck.org's 2026 crime review notes the 2020 increase and subsequent decline beginning in 2022.
“The U.S. economy was the best in world history under his watch.” — False. Trump presided over historically low unemployment before COVID, but GDP growth and other measures did not make it the greatest economy in U.S. history.
Source: PolitiFact, No, Donald Trump didn't lead 'greatest economy in the history of the world'.
“He passed the largest tax cut in American history.” — False. Trump's 2017 tax law was substantial but was not the largest tax cut by relevant historical measures. His 2025 law also did not rank first.
Sources: PolitiFact on the 2017 claim. PolitiFact on the 2025 law.
“Tariffs are paid entirely by foreign countries, not U.S. consumers.” — False. U.S. importers pay the tariff to U.S. Customs; costs can then be passed to American businesses and consumers.
Source: FactCheck.org, Does China Pay Tariffs?
“The U.S. had a $500 billion trade deficit with China.” — False in the context in which Trump used it. Trump claimed the deficit was $500 billion under Obama; FactCheck.org found the actual figure was substantially lower.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Dubious Claims About China.
“Thousands of people in New Jersey cheered on 9/11.” — Pants on Fire/false. PolitiFact searched contemporary news records and found no evidence of thousands of New Jersey residents celebrating the attacks.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-checking Trump's claim that thousands in New Jersey cheered.
“Barack Obama was not born in the United States.” — False. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trump spent years promoting the “birther” claim before acknowledging in 2016 that Obama was born in the U.S.
Source: PolitiFact, Full Flop: Donald Trump abandons Barack Obama birther conspiracy.
“Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination.” — False/unsupported. Trump linked Rafael Cruz to Lee Harvey Oswald based on a poorly sourced National Enquirer story. There was no credible evidence that Cruz's father participated in the assassination.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Long History With Conspiracy Theories.
“The FBI planted evidence during the Mar-a-Lago raid.” — Unsupported/false. Trump repeatedly suggested the FBI planted evidence. No evidence has established that the FBI planted documents; the search was conducted under a warrant.
Source: PolitiFact's Mar-a-Lago fact-checking, including its discussion of Trump's false claims concerning the FBI search.
“He had a new healthcare plan ready to go.” — False as a description of his 2020 promise. In July 2020 Trump explicitly said, “We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan.” That promised comprehensive plan did not materialize during his first term.
Source: Contemporary reporting on the two-week promise; the statement itself is documented in the Fox News interview.
“Half of U.S./Ukraine aid is missing.” — Unsupported/false. There is no evidence that half of U.S. aid was missing or diverted. Trump's February 2025 claim that Zelensky admitted half the money was missing was also rejected by fact-checkers. Sources: FactCheck.org. PolitiFact, There's no evidence half of all Ukrainian aid was laundered.
“White South Africans are facing a genocide.” — Unsupported/false. There have been murders of white farmers, but available evidence does not establish a genocide. Farm murders constitute less than 1% of South Africa's roughly 27,000 annual murders, and experts cited by PolitiFact rejected the genocide characterization.
Source: PolitiFact, Trump's Afrikaner refugee policy based on unfounded claims about land, white farmer 'genocide'.
“He lost the 2016 popular vote only because millions voted illegally.” — False/unsupported. Trump claimed he would have won the popular vote after subtracting “millions” of illegal votes. There was no evidence for millions of illegal votes, and even the academic study he invoked did not support his conclusion.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Sticks With Bogus Voter Fraud Claims.
“He completely defeated ISIS in one month.” — False. The U.S.-led coalition had already retaken about half of ISIS's territory before Trump took office. The coalition didn't recover all remaining ISIS territory until March 2019, more than two years into Trump's presidency.
Source: FactCheck.org, FactChecking Harris' and Trump's Fox News Appearances.
“NATO countries owed the U.S. direct back-pay for defense.” — False. NATO members don't owe the United States money because they spend less than 2% of GDP on defense. The 2% figure was a spending guideline/commitment, not a debt to Washington.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False Claims at NATO.
“He saved the U.S. auto industry from total collapse.” — False. The U.S. auto industry had already been rescued from the 2008–09 crisis through Bush/Obama-era interventions. Trump's steel/aluminum tariffs actually increased costs for automakers.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-check: Donald Trump's repeated falsehood that he saved the U.S. auto industry.
“U.S. steel mills were completely dead before his tariffs.” — False/exaggerated. The steel industry had significant problems, but it was not “dead” or about to disappear. Domestic steel production had been higher as recently as 2014.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Steel Industry Claims.
“He built hundreds of miles of a brand-new border wall.” — Misleading. Hundreds of miles of barrier system were constructed, but most replaced existing barriers. During Trump's term, only about 52 miles of new primary wall and 33 miles of new secondary wall were built where no barrier previously existed.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Presidential Bid Announcement / CBP data.
“The Boy Scouts called him to say his speech was the greatest.” — Unsupported/likely false. Trump said the head of the Boy Scouts called and described his speech as the greatest ever. The Boy Scouts said they were unaware of such a call.
Source: TIME, Boy Scouts 'Unaware' of Call Trump Said He Received.
“The IRS audits him because he is a strong Christian.” — Unsupported. Trump himself suggested this in 2016, but there was no evidence establishing that his religion caused his audits. The IRS could not disclose individual taxpayer information.
Source: Washington Post, reporting Trump's actual statement and the lack of evidence.
“He didn't know or hire the people who wrote Project 2025; indeed he knew nothing about it.” — False/misleading. Trump did say he knew nothing about Project 2025, but FactCheck.org documented that he had spoken at the Heritage Foundation event launching the project and praised the group's work on plans for the next conservative administration.
Source: FactCheck.org, A Guide to Project 2025.
“He never called fallen U.S. soldiers ‘suckers and losers.’” — Disputed, not established as an uncontested fact. The original report came from The Atlantic citing multiple anonymous sources. Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly subsequently appeared to corroborate aspects of the account, while Trump denied saying it.
Source: FactCheck.org's 2024 debate fact-check describes the original reporting and Kelly's apparent confirmation.
“The Jan. 6 crowd was peaceful and loving.” — False as a description of the Capitol attack. Trump subsequently described the crowd as a “loving crowd,” but thousands attacked police, breached the Capitol and forced Congress to evacuate.Sources: Washington Post reporting Trump's “loving crowd” characterization. PolitiFact's review of claims portraying Jan. 6 as a peaceful “tourist visit.”
Sources for all 40 claims
“Ukraine started the war.” — False. Russia launched the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False and Misleading Ukraine Claims.
“Zelensky has a 4% approval rating.” — False/unsupported. PolitiFact found no poll supporting 4%; a February 2025 Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll found 57% trust in Zelensky.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s attacks on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“He would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.” — False as a fulfilled/past promise. Trump repeatedly promised he could end the war within a day, including before taking office; the war continued.
Source: FactCheck.org, Tracking Trump's Promises at the 100-Day Mark.
“Zelensky showed zero gratitude to America.” — Misleading. This was Trump's characterization of Zelensky, not an objectively measurable fact. FactCheck.org documents Trump's broader false/misleading attacks on Zelensky and U.S. aid.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False and Misleading Ukraine Claims.
“Babies are forced to get 72 vaccine doses.” — False. The 72 figure referred to a possible number of doses over childhood, not 72 injections for babies; combination vaccines mean multiple doses can be administered in a single shot.
Source: PolitiFact, Did the vaccine schedule require kids to be injected 72 times? No.
“Injecting disinfectant treats COVID.” — False. Trump publicly raised injecting disinfectant/cleaning products as something worth investigating; disinfectants are not COVID treatments and can be toxic.
Source: The April 23, 2020 White House coronavirus briefing is the primary source; contemporaneous fact-checking documented the statement.
“COVID-19 would just ‘disappear’ like a miracle.” — False. Trump repeatedly predicted the virus would disappear, including his February 2020 “like a miracle” statement, but it plainly did not.
Source: FactCheck.org's COVID-19 fact-check archive; the statement is also documented in contemporary White House remarks.
“The 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud.” — False. Courts rejected the claims for lack of evidence; Trump's own election-security officials called the election the most secure in American history.
Source: FactCheck.org, Donald Trump's Closing Arguments.
“Millions of undocumented immigrants voted in federal elections.” — False/unsupported. There is no evidence of voting by millions of undocumented immigrants. Noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections, and large-scale illegal voting has not been demonstrated.
Source: FactCheck.org, Donald Trump's Closing Arguments.
“His 2025 airstrikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program.” — Initially misleading; later disputed, and the situation is more complicated. FactCheck.org reported that the June 2025 strikes severely damaged key facilities and set the program back, rather than literally destroying Iran's entire nuclear capability.
Sources: FactCheck.org, June 2025.
“Drug prices dropped by 600%.” — Mathematically impossible. A 100% reduction takes a price to zero; a 600% reduction would imply the seller paying the buyer. Trump actually claimed reductions of 400–600%.
Source: FactCheck.org, FactChecking Trump's Rapid-Fire Prime-Time Address.
“The 2025 Venezuela deployment was purely a drug war.” — Misleading/unsupported. The administration justified military action partly around drugs, but reporting documented broader objectives and serious questions about whether counter-narcotics was the sole purpose.
Source: AP, A war on drugs or a war on terror? Trump's military pressure on Venezuela blurs the lines.
“His 2017 inauguration had the largest audience ever.” — False. Obama's 2009 inauguration had a substantially larger in-person crowd, and Trump's television audience was also lower.
Source: FactCheck.org, The Facts on Crowd Size.
“Mexico would pay for the border wall.” — False. Mexico did not directly fund the wall, and the USMCA did not contain a mechanism whereby Mexico paid for it.
Source: FactCheck.org, Is Mexico Paying for the Wall Through USMCA?
“Climate change is a hoax invented by China.” — False. Trump repeatedly called climate change/global warming a “hoax,” including claims connecting it to China; the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change is overwhelming.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Clings to Inaccurate Climate Change Talking Points.
“Windmills cause cancer.” — False. Trump said, “the noise causes cancer.” There is no credible evidence that wind-turbine noise causes cancer.
Source: PolitiFact, Donald Trump's ridiculous link between cancer, wind turbines.
“The U.S. has the cleanest air and water in history.” — False/misleading. Trump said the U.S. had the cleanest air and water in the world; international environmental rankings did not support that.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Bungles Climate Change in UK.
“Crime rates dropped during his first term.” — Misleading. Some crime measures declined during portions of Trump's first term, but violent crime and especially murder increased sharply in 2020, the final year of his first term.
Source: FactCheck.org's 2026 crime review notes the 2020 increase and subsequent decline beginning in 2022.
“The U.S. economy was the best in world history under his watch.” — False. Trump presided over historically low unemployment before COVID, but GDP growth and other measures did not make it the greatest economy in U.S. history.
Source: PolitiFact, No, Donald Trump didn't lead 'greatest economy in the history of the world'.
“He passed the largest tax cut in American history.” — False. Trump's 2017 tax law was substantial but was not the largest tax cut by relevant historical measures. His 2025 law also did not rank first.
Sources: PolitiFact on the 2017 claim. PolitiFact on the 2025 law.
“Tariffs are paid entirely by foreign countries, not U.S. consumers.” — False. U.S. importers pay the tariff to U.S. Customs; costs can then be passed to American businesses and consumers.
Source: FactCheck.org, Does China Pay Tariffs?
“The U.S. had a $500 billion trade deficit with China.” — False in the context in which Trump used it. Trump claimed the deficit was $500 billion under Obama; FactCheck.org found the actual figure was substantially lower.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Dubious Claims About China.
“Thousands of people in New Jersey cheered on 9/11.” — Pants on Fire/false. PolitiFact searched contemporary news records and found no evidence of thousands of New Jersey residents celebrating the attacks.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-checking Trump's claim that thousands in New Jersey cheered.
“Barack Obama was not born in the United States.” — False. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trump spent years promoting the “birther” claim before acknowledging in 2016 that Obama was born in the U.S.
Source: PolitiFact, Full Flop: Donald Trump abandons Barack Obama birther conspiracy.
“Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination.” — False/unsupported. Trump linked Rafael Cruz to Lee Harvey Oswald based on a poorly sourced National Enquirer story. There was no credible evidence that Cruz's father participated in the assassination.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Long History With Conspiracy Theories.
“The FBI planted evidence during the Mar-a-Lago raid.” — Unsupported/false. Trump repeatedly suggested the FBI planted evidence. No evidence has established that the FBI planted documents; the search was conducted under a warrant.
Source: PolitiFact's Mar-a-Lago fact-checking, including its discussion of Trump's false claims concerning the FBI search.
“He had a new healthcare plan ready to go.” — False as a description of his 2020 promise. In July 2020 Trump explicitly said, “We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan.” That promised comprehensive plan did not materialize during his first term.
Source: Contemporary reporting on the two-week promise; the statement itself is documented in the Fox News interview.
“Half of U.S./Ukraine aid is missing.” — Unsupported/false. There is no evidence that half of U.S. aid was missing or diverted. Trump's February 2025 claim that Zelensky admitted half the money was missing was also rejected by fact-checkers. Sources: FactCheck.org. PolitiFact, There's no evidence half of all Ukrainian aid was laundered.
“White South Africans are facing a genocide.” — Unsupported/false. There have been murders of white farmers, but available evidence does not establish a genocide. Farm murders constitute less than 1% of South Africa's roughly 27,000 annual murders, and experts cited by PolitiFact rejected the genocide characterization.
Source: PolitiFact, Trump's Afrikaner refugee policy based on unfounded claims about land, white farmer 'genocide'.
“He lost the 2016 popular vote only because millions voted illegally.” — False/unsupported. Trump claimed he would have won the popular vote after subtracting “millions” of illegal votes. There was no evidence for millions of illegal votes, and even the academic study he invoked did not support his conclusion.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump Sticks With Bogus Voter Fraud Claims.
“He completely defeated ISIS in one month.” — False. The U.S.-led coalition had already retaken about half of ISIS's territory before Trump took office. The coalition didn't recover all remaining ISIS territory until March 2019, more than two years into Trump's presidency.
Source: FactCheck.org, FactChecking Harris' and Trump's Fox News Appearances.
“NATO countries owed the U.S. direct back-pay for defense.” — False. NATO members don't owe the United States money because they spend less than 2% of GDP on defense. The 2% figure was a spending guideline/commitment, not a debt to Washington.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's False Claims at NATO.
“He saved the U.S. auto industry from total collapse.” — False. The U.S. auto industry had already been rescued from the 2008–09 crisis through Bush/Obama-era interventions. Trump's steel/aluminum tariffs actually increased costs for automakers.
Source: PolitiFact, Fact-check: Donald Trump's repeated falsehood that he saved the U.S. auto industry.
“U.S. steel mills were completely dead before his tariffs.” — False/exaggerated. The steel industry had significant problems, but it was not “dead” or about to disappear. Domestic steel production had been higher as recently as 2014.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Steel Industry Claims.
“He built hundreds of miles of a brand-new border wall.” — Misleading. Hundreds of miles of barrier system were constructed, but most replaced existing barriers. During Trump's term, only about 52 miles of new primary wall and 33 miles of new secondary wall were built where no barrier previously existed.
Source: FactCheck.org, Trump's Presidential Bid Announcement / CBP data.
“The Boy Scouts called him to say his speech was the greatest.” — Unsupported/likely false. Trump said the head of the Boy Scouts called and described his speech as the greatest ever. The Boy Scouts said they were unaware of such a call.
Source: TIME, Boy Scouts 'Unaware' of Call Trump Said He Received.
“The IRS audits him because he is a strong Christian.” — Unsupported. Trump himself suggested this in 2016, but there was no evidence establishing that his religion caused his audits. The IRS could not disclose individual taxpayer information.
Source: Washington Post, reporting Trump's actual statement and the lack of evidence.
“He didn't know or hire the people who wrote Project 2025; indeed he knew nothing about it.” — False/misleading. Trump did say he knew nothing about Project 2025, but FactCheck.org documented that he had spoken at the Heritage Foundation event launching the project and praised the group's work on plans for the next conservative administration.
Source: FactCheck.org, A Guide to Project 2025.
“He never called fallen U.S. soldiers ‘suckers and losers.’” — Disputed, not established as an uncontested fact. The original report came from The Atlantic citing multiple anonymous sources. Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly subsequently appeared to corroborate aspects of the account, while Trump denied saying it.
Source: FactCheck.org's 2024 debate fact-check describes the original reporting and Kelly's apparent confirmation.
“The Jan. 6 crowd was peaceful and loving.” — False as a description of the Capitol attack. Trump subsequently described the crowd as a “loving crowd,” but thousands attacked police, breached the Capitol and forced Congress to evacuate.Sources: Washington Post reporting Trump's “loving crowd” characterization. PolitiFact's review of claims portraying Jan. 6 as a peaceful “tourist visit.”
