Tag: United States President
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Trump’s Primetime Address on “Election Vulnerabilities”: What He Said, and What’s Actually True
Trump’s July 16 primetime address alleged a Chinese hack of 220 million voter files and a Deep State cover-up. This fact check walks through every claim against the public record.
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Trump Shrinks Two Utah National Monuments by 3 Million Acres — Then Uses the Signing to Talk Iran, Cuba, and a Grand Prix on Pennsylvania Avenue
Trump signed a national monuments executive order cutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 3 million acres, then fielded questions on the Iran war, Cuba, and more. Full transcript, fact-checked.
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Judge Voids Trump-IRS “Settlement,” Refers His Lawyer for Discipline: What the Ruling Actually Says
Judge Kathleen Williams ruled Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit and its billion-dollar ‘settlement’ were never adversarial, since Trump controls the agencies he sued. She sanctioned his lawyer and barred the deal from being cited in court.
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Patriots for Ukraine, War With Iran on the Table: Inside Trump and Zelenskyy’s Ankara Press Availability — With Fact Checks
Trump announced a Patriot production license for Ukraine and previewed new strikes on Iran at the NATO summit in Ankara. Our topic-by-topic breakdown fact-checks every major claim, from the USS Cole to the “Islamic Republic of Japan.”
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Trump and Erdoğan Meet in Ankara: F-35 Jets, Sanctions Relief, and a Fully Fact-Checked Breakdown
Trump and Erdoğan’s Ankara meeting produced a major F-35 and sanctions announcement, plus a string of exaggerations about the economy, Ukraine, and Greenland. Here is a complete, source-by-source fact-check of everything said.
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Trump’s July 4, 2026 National Mall Speech: Full Breakdown and Fact Check of the “Salute to America 250” Address
After a lightning evacuation delayed America’s 250th birthday, Trump delivered a late-night National Mall address packed with claims. We checked every one — from 159 Iranian ships sunk to the ‘safest city’ boast. The verdicts may surprise you.
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Trump at Mount Rushmore: A Fact-Checked Guide to the Speech That Opened America’s 250th Birthday
Trump opened America’s 250th birthday at Mount Rushmore with a speech calling communism a greater threat than WWII and claiming $19.2 trillion in investment. Our fact check finds inflated numbers, recycled 2020 lines and one big political ask.
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Trump’s Teddy Roosevelt Library Speech: A Psychological and Rhetorical Analysis
Trump’s Medora address puts his own vote count against a president who died in 1919 and jokes about awarding himself the Medal of Honor. We break down the psychology and persuasion architecture behind it.
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Trump Dedicates the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library: A Complete, Fact-Checked Breakdown of the Medora Address
Trump dedicated the new $450M Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library aboard Air Force One’s maiden flight. We fact-checked every major claim, from the Panama Canal to the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling.
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Trump Signs “Freedom to Fix” Car Repair Order, Then Ranges Over the Supreme Court, the SAVE Act, and Zohran Mamdani
Trump’s freedom to fix order lets Americans repair their own cars with aftermarket parts. He also reacted to two Supreme Court rulings, the SAVE Act, and Zohran Mamdani, in a fact-checked breakdown of everything said.
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How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More
President Trump, early in his second term, is aggressively expanding his executive power, challenging judicial authority, reshaping government institutions, and consolidating control over Congress and various aspects of American society.
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Trump Transcripts
A collection of Donald J. Trump transcripts.