Here's a roundup of nearly 30 dubious claims made by the president during his speech.
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NPR→ Fact Check: Democratic Response To Trump’s State Of The Union Address
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Democratic Response To Trump’s State Of The Union Address
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Democratic Response To Trump’s State Of The Union Address
NPR→ Fact Check: Trump’s State Of The Union Address
President Trump is delivering the annual speech, which had been delayed because of the government shutdown, on Tuesday night. NPR reporters are providing context and analysis in real time. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s State Of The Union Address
President Trump delivered the annual speech, which had been delayed because of the government shutdown, on Tuesday night. NPR reporters provided context and analysis in real time. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)
NPR→ FACT CHECK: Trump’s State Of The Union Address
President Trump delivered the annual speech, which had been delayed because of the government shutdown, on Tuesday night. NPR reporters provided context and analysis in real time.(Image credit: Andrew Harnik)
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pence Did NOT Beg Trump Not to Make Him Sit Next to Woman at State of the Union
Did Vice President Mike Pence beg President Trump not to make him sit next to a woman during the State of the Union? No, that's not true: Pence will just sit next to Speaker Pelosi, the entire story was made up by the satire section of a popu
Snopes→ Did Kamala Harris Once Boast About Prosecuting a Homeless Mother?
A nine-year-old speech resurfaced online in January 2019, after the California Democrat announced her presidential ambitions.
FactCheck.org→ Harris’ Campaign Kickoff Claims
Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris made a few false and misleading claims in two events that kicked off her 2020 presidential campaign. In a speech in her home state of California on Jan. 27, Harris said “paychecks aren’t keeping up” with
FactCheck.org→ No Support for Supposed Reagan Quote
Quick Take There is no evidence to support social media posts attributing a quote about Nancy Pelosi to former President Ronald Reagan. Full Story When reclaiming her role as speaker of the House, Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi invoked Republican Presid
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Say ‘the Dream’ Cannot Survive if Women Have Abortions?
In January 2019, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the passage of a new abortion law in New York state occurred in close proximity, facilitating the circulation of the following quote meme: The above-reproduced quote meme included a photograph of King a
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO New Study Says Women Prefer Low Testosterone Effeminate Liberal Men to Muscular Confident Alpha Males
Did a new study find women prefer low testosterone effeminate liberal men to muscular confident alpha males? No, that's not true: the study was made up by a right-wing satire website. It does not exist. The story originated from an article pub
Snopes→ Police: Woman Drove Drunk on Vanilla Extract
They say they detected an odor of vanilla on her breath, her speech was slurred and she was unable to answer basic questions.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Pointless Job Boast
President Donald Trump lamented that the “media barely covers” the fact there are “More people working in U.S.A. today than at any time in our HISTORY.” It’s probably because, with the U.S. population increasing every day,
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Donald Trump Say He Would ‘Gladly Take… Slings and Arrows’ of Criticism for His Supporters?
On January 21 2019, the Facebook page “We Love President Donald J. Trump” shared the following quotation meme: Beneath an image of Donald Trump, the text said: They knew they would throw every lie they could at me and my family and my love
Lead Stories→ Fake News: CIA Did NOT Issue Posthumous Apology, New Evidence Did NOT Clear Osama Bin Laden Of Involvement In 9/11 Attacks
Did new evidence clear Osama Bin Laden of involvement in the 9/11 terrirust attacks and did the CIA posthumously issue him a formal apology? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a satirical website that often gets mistaken for real n
FactCheck.org→ Unsupported MLK Claim Circulates Again
Quick Take Facebook posts claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. That’s a longstanding, unsupported claim that his children have denied. Full Story On the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and days after what would have been his 9
Snopes→ It’s Off: Pelosi Says No State of Union While Govt Shut
Fireworks over the speech shot back and forth between the Capitol and the White House as the month-long partial government shutdown showed no signs of ending.
PolitiFact→ The upcoming Senate votes to end the shutdown: A closer look
A pair of votes are scheduled in the Senate for Jan. 24 — either of which could end the partial government shutdown after nearly five weeks. But what are in these two measures, one from the Republicans and the other from Democrats? And
FactCheck.org→ Examining Shutdown Claims from Democrats
The weekslong partial government shutdown has led to around 800,000 federal employees not working or working without pay. It also has led to some false or questionable claims from Democrats about the shutdown’s impact on a host of federal service
FactCheck.org→ Trump Wrong About Wall Effect in El Paso
President Donald Trump falsely claimed that El Paso went from “one of the most dangerous cities in the country to one of the safest cities in the country overnight” after “a wall was put up” along the Mexico border. Here are the facts:
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Texas Ranchers Find ‘Prayer Rugs’ Near the U.S.-Mexico Border?
Amid a flurry of headlines about the government shutdown and Michael Cohen on January 18 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted a highly dubious claim that ranchers on the southern United States border had found “prayer rugs” as part of a pl
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Marie Kondo Tell People They Could Only Keep Thirty Books at a Time?
After Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondo debuted in January 2019, social media lit up with takes lambasting Kondo’s supposedly draconian position on the possession of books: Wait Marie Kondo is telling people to toss their books? THEIR
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Fox News Did NOT Debut Premium Channel For 24-Hour Coverage Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Did Fox News launch a new premium channel with nothing but 24-coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? No, that's not true: the story was made up by famous satire website The Onion. It did not happen for real. The story originated from an artic
FactCheck.org→ Pence’s Claim that ISIS ‘Has Been Defeated’
On the same day ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly attack against U.S. service members in Syria, Vice President Mike Pence declared that ISIS “has been defeated.” It is true that the U.S. and its allies have retaken virtually all of t
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Nancy Pelosi Refusing to Meet with Any U.S. Citizen Who Had a Family Member Murdered by ‘an Illegal’?
In January 2019, a Facebook user posted a status update that has since become virally popular. It said: IMAGINE THAT NANCY PELOSI IS REFUSING TO MEET WITH ANY U.S. CITIZEN WHO HAD A FAMILY MEMBER MURDERED BY AN ILLEGAL. The post appeared on its own
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Undocumented Immigrants Send $56 Billion in ‘Pure Cash’ to Their Home Countries Last Year?
Against the backdrop of a long-running federal shutdown, purportedly over border wall funding, a Facebook user shared the following meme in January 2019: It read: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SENT $56 BILLION IN PURE CASH TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES LAST YEAR ALONE
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Venezuela Did NOT Declare War On Republic of Paraguay
Did Venezuela just declare war on Paraguay? No, that's not true: some joker uploaded an article making that claim to a prank website that allows anyone to create a realistic-looking news article, but it is not real. The story originated from
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Posts Misrepresent Photo of Rep. Tlaib
Quick Take A false narrative spread on Facebook claims Rep. Rashida Tlaib was “caught on film trying to attack someone.” The photo in question is actually from a 2016 Trump campaign event she protested. Full Story Democratic Rep. Rashida T
FactCheck.org→ Trump Revises History on Mexico’s Wall Payment
President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise that Mexico would pay for a border wall, now misleadingly claims he never meant that Mexico would “write out a check” to pay for it. His campaign at least twice laid out specific methods of direct
FactCheck.org→ Social Posts Distort Facts of 2013 Shutdown
Quick Take Viral Facebook posts say that former President Barack Obama “shut down the government to force Obamacare.” That’s misleading. Full Story The current partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22 arose as a result of an im
Truth or Fiction?→ Do You Have the Right as a Juror to Refuse to Enforce ‘Bad Law’?
On January 5, 2018, the Facebook page “Think Liberty” posted this photograph of a woman holding a sign: The sign and caption said: As a juror, you have the right to refuse to enforce any bad law in the case brought before you. #TheMoreYouK
FactCheck.org→ Video: FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Address
In this video, we review four statements that President Donald Trump made during his national address on illegal immigration. In his Jan. 8 speech, the president called on Congress to appropriate $5.7 billion for a wall along the Southwest border to ad
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Address
In a national address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to provide $5.7 billion for a border wall to address what he called a “crisis” on the border. The president made some false and misleading claims, and provided some facts with
Washington Post→ Fact-checking President Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration
Over the course of his nine-minute speech, Trump painted a misleading and bleak picture of the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Lead Stories→ Very Old News: Sharifa Alkhateeb Talking About Using Public Schools to Convert America to Islam… In 1989
Did Sharifa Alkhateeb talk about converting America to Islam in a video? Yes, she did, back in 1989, several years before she died in 2004. For some reason a video clip of a speech she made at a conference thirty years ago in August 1989 went
Truth or Fiction?→ Did President Barack Obama Shut Down the Government to ‘Force Obamacare’ in 2013?
On December 29, 2018, a Facebook user posted a status update claiming that a federal shutdown over border wall funding was similar to one in 2013 — and it was purportedly initiated by President Barack Obama: This was nearly identical to a December 2
FactCheck.org→ False Claim of Immigrant Children Deaths Under Obama
Q: Is it accurate that “18 children died while in custody of Border Patrol” during the Obama administration? A: No. Prior to two children’s deaths in December, it had been more than a decade since a child died while in the custody of U.S.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Teddy Roosevelt Stand Up for the First Black Female Postmaster?
In January 2019, the Facebook page History Hustle shared a meme about President Teddy Roosevelt and a woman named Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster in the United States: The original post (which did not include any visible citations) said: