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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before”
Claim checkedInflation under the Biden administration was record-setting, higher than the United States had ever experienced before.
Inflation under the previous administration peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, a 40-year high. It was well below the 1980 peak of 14.8%, so it was not inflation 'like we've never had before'.
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Not supported75% confidence
“And importantly, workers' wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than 60 years.”
Claim checkedUS workers' wages are rising at the fastest pace in more than 60 years.
Overall wage growth was modest in 2025. Real wages for blue-collar workers rose strongly in the early months, but there is no evidence of the fastest wage growth in more than 60 years.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“And for the last 4 months—and that's 4 months in a row—the number of illegal aliens admitted and entering our country has been zero.”
Claim checkedFor the last four months in a row, the number of illegal immigrants admitted into or entering the United States has been zero.
Border Patrol reported zero releases at the southern border in those months. Apprehensions continued at around 8,000–10,000 a month and evasions were not zero, so the number entering was not zero.
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Not supported85% confidence
“from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers”
Claim checkedUnder the Biden administration's border policy, people from foreign prisons and mental institutions, and drug dealers, poured into the United States.
Immigration researchers and fact-checkers have found no evidence that countries emptied prisons or mental institutions to send people to the US.
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Not supported80% confidence
“Likewise, in a period of just 7 months, I have ended seven unendable wars.”
Claim checkedIn his first seven months back in office, Trump ended seven wars that had been considered impossible to end.
Several of the seven were ceasefires of uncertain durability, at least two (Egypt–Ethiopia, Serbia–Kosovo) were not active wars, and some parties dispute the US role.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“They had massive cost overruns and spent between $2- and $4 billion on the building”
Claim checkedThe UN had massive cost overruns on renovating its New York headquarters, spending between $2 billion and $4 billion on the building.
The UN headquarters renovation (Capital Master Plan) cost about $2.1 billion, above early estimates. That is at the bottom of the stated '$2 to $4 billion' range; there is no evidence it approached $4 billion.
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Partly supported50% confidence
“And they've been fighting for 3½ years and killing anywhere from 5- to 7,000 young soldiers, mostly soldiers, on both sides, every single week.”
Claim checkedFor three and a half years, the Russia-Ukraine war has been killing 5,000 to 7,000 soldiers a week, counting both sides.
Estimates of Russian casualties alone run at roughly 4,600–8,000 a week, but those figures count killed and wounded together. Deaths on both sides are well below 5,000–7,000 a week on available estimates.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“This was a humanitarian act for all involved, because on the trips up, thousands of people a week were dying.”
Claim checkedBefore the US border crackdown, thousands of migrants a week were dying on the journey north to the United States.
The IOM Missing Migrants Project recorded about 1,270 deaths and disappearances in the whole of the Americas in 2023 and about 1,230 in 2024: roughly 25 a week, not thousands a week.
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Not supported80% confidence
“The previous administration also lost nearly 300,000 children.”
Claim checkedThe Biden administration lost nearly 300,000 migrant children who came into the United States.
The figure comes from a DHS Inspector General finding that about 291,000 unaccompanied children had not been served court notices (2018–2023, spanning two administrations). It is not a count of 'lost' children.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“Most expensive energy ever conceived.”
Claim checkedWind power is the most expensive energy ever conceived.
Lazard's 2025 cost analysis finds onshore wind and utility-scale solar the cheapest new-build generation on an unsubsidised basis, for the tenth year running.
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Supported80% confidence
“Another U.N. official stated in 1989 that, within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming.”
Claim checkedIn 1989 a UN official said that, within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming.
In July 1989 Noel Brown of UNEP's New York office told AP that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising seas if the warming trend was not reversed by 2000. (Context: the projections behind it concerned much later dates.)
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Supported70% confidence
“So, while the U.S. has approximately 1,300 heat-related deaths annually—that's a lot—Europe loses more than 175,000 people to heat deaths each year.”
Claim checkedThe United States has about 1,300 heat-related deaths a year, while Europe has more than 175,000 heat deaths a year.
The EPA estimates about 1,300 US heat deaths a year (other counts are higher), and the WHO estimates about 175,000 heat deaths a year in its European region. The figures match; the suggestion that air-conditioning costs cause the gap is a separate claim.