The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Are long gas lines forming in North Korea, as Donald Trump says? As North Korea continues to try the West’s patience with a series of nuclear and missile tests, President Donald Trump is touting the success
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PolitiFact→ Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix
President Donald Trump defended his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., during a campaign rally in Phoenix, on Aug. 22, blaming the media for distorting or omitting his full comments. "The media can attack me, but where I draw the li
Washington Post→ A quick guide to President Trump’s false Twitter claims today
President Trump went on a Twitter rampage Monday night and this morning, spewing a number of false and misleading claims — many of which we have fact-checked previously. Here’s a quick guide to what’s factually incorrect. So m
Washington Post→ Video: Fact-checking President Trump’s claims about ‘unleashing American energy’
At a recent event celebrating “unleashing American energy,” President Trump made several misleading claims about coal, energy the Paris climate agreement and the environment. We’ve previously fact-checked Trump’s claim
PolitiFact→ Sean Spicer – Sean Spicer tweets misleading Obamacare statistic
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Sean Spicer tweets misleading Obamacare statistic After the delay of a vote on the Senate’s controversial health bill, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took to Twitter to assuage concerns regarding t
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Iowa Rally
The 2020 presidential campaign is more than 1,200 days away, but President Donald Trump held yet another Make America Great Again rally — this time in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And, as he did in past campaign speeches, Trump spoke for a long time and r
PolitiFact→ Five things to watch in the Senate health care bill
Senate Republicans are soon scheduled to unveil the bill they will use to seek to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill -- drafted in secret, away from even most Senate Republicans -- has prompted intense speculation about what might be
Climate Feedback→ Report Heartland Institute sent to influence US teachers on climate change earns an “F” from scientists
Tens of thousands of science teachers in the US have recently received an unsolicited booklet titled “Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming”, which looks like a scientific report. It was published by the Heartland Institute (self-described a
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump’s NBC interview, claims about firing FBI Director James Comey
President Donald Trump downplayed the significance of the FBI’s Russia investigation and the timing of his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in an interview with NBC May 11. He also distorted the facts on both points. Here are Trump&rsquo
FactCheck.org→ Clinton Wrong on Debate Claim
Hillary Clinton, who declared that she is “now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance,” falsely claimed that no debate moderator ever asked Donald Trump, “so exactly how are you going to create more jobs”?
FactCheck.org→ Trump Spins His First 100 Days
Summary In an interview with the Associated Press, President Donald Trump put some spin on what he has done — and hasn’t done — as he nears the completion of his first 100 days in office: Trump said he has not labeled China a curren
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Trump’s AP interview about his first 100 days
President Donald Trump played up his accomplishments in his first 100 days, while simultaneously downplaying the significance of the milepost, in a lengthy interview with the Associated Press. "I've done more than any other president in the fi
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Trump as GOP health bill stalls
The demise of the American Health Care Act closes a chapter in the Republicans’ seven-year quest to topple the Affordable Care Act. It would be hard to name a battle that has generated more checkable claims -- PolitiFact has checked more than 1,4
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump's Nashville rally
President Donald Trump went to Nashville to commemorate the 250th birthday of the populist 19th century President Andrew Jackson on March 15. He delivered a campaign-style rally speech, repeating misleading talking points about the Affordable Care Act
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Address to Congress
Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump stuck closely to his prepared remarks, but ran afoul of the facts in some cases. Trump said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6 t
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump touts promise progress at press conference
We’re tracking more than 100 of President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges on our Trump-O-Meter. In a lengthy press conference Feb. 16, Trump listed several actions he’s taken since his Jan. 20 inauguration to meet these promises. Here